How many owners have experienced damage to your boat due to a wake or a rouge wave?
A couple of days ago, as I was leaving our harbor and just exiting the no wake zone, a large boat passed in front of me forcing me to slow way down (I'll stress that this didn't seem like a big deal, and the other boat wasn't going at an inappropriate speed). I pointed the bow into the oncoming wake, as I'd been taught to do.
The first wave of the wake was no problem. Nor was the second, which had us rocking but again, nothing we hadn't seen before. However, the third wave caught us in a bow-down attitude and came over the front of our 22SRX. It wasn't high enough to come over the door, and didn't seem like anything other than a nuisance until I noted that the skin on the front door had been torn off, and the front skins were both dented (the right skin badly)!
In looking at the now removed door skin, I'd note that it's, well, flimsy. It isn't designed to take much of a blow if any. I'd suspect that there will be many of us, therefore, that have this kind of damage.
My insurance has been notified... as have the Florida Fish and Wildlife (FWC) commission. I'm getting estimates. UGH! My brand new boat!
Anyway, I'm disappointed at the construction of the bow skins. Have any of the rest of you had damage?
A couple of days ago, as I was leaving our harbor and just exiting the no wake zone, a large boat passed in front of me forcing me to slow way down (I'll stress that this didn't seem like a big deal, and the other boat wasn't going at an inappropriate speed). I pointed the bow into the oncoming wake, as I'd been taught to do.
The first wave of the wake was no problem. Nor was the second, which had us rocking but again, nothing we hadn't seen before. However, the third wave caught us in a bow-down attitude and came over the front of our 22SRX. It wasn't high enough to come over the door, and didn't seem like anything other than a nuisance until I noted that the skin on the front door had been torn off, and the front skins were both dented (the right skin badly)!
In looking at the now removed door skin, I'd note that it's, well, flimsy. It isn't designed to take much of a blow if any. I'd suspect that there will be many of us, therefore, that have this kind of damage.
My insurance has been notified... as have the Florida Fish and Wildlife (FWC) commission. I'm getting estimates. UGH! My brand new boat!
Anyway, I'm disappointed at the construction of the bow skins. Have any of the rest of you had damage?