Let me start off by saying everyone has the right to have fun on the water. Whether you flying along at 80mph, enjoying watersports, fishing, or sailing. Living on the Fox River and doing regular boating I have seen some shit. I feel these days most accidents involved someone drunk or watersports.
The Chain/Fox River is one of the busiest boating destinations in the midwest. One of my biggest boating pet peeves is people doing water sports during the middle of the day. You got wakeboarding bro's right in the middle of the river doing 15mph and kicking up a HUGE wake. You got pontoon full of a family towing 3 kids on a tube, zig-zagging, down the river. Not only do you not know where they are going next, you don't know if the person in tow is going to eat shit right in front of you. It is hard to pass these guys and often a traffic jam of boats is behind them in some spaces. Oviously when they are coming at you it is also a problem. I try to be respectfull when I encounter these guys but FUCK it is just not safe todo this shit sometimes. I feel watersports shouldnt be allowed between the hours of 12PM and 6PM on the weekends. At least on the river. I do not have enough experiance on the lakes to talk about this issue.
The Chain/Fox River is one of the busiest boating destinations in the midwest. One of my biggest boating pet peeves is people doing water sports during the middle of the day. You got wakeboarding bro's right in the middle of the river doing 15mph and kicking up a HUGE wake. You got pontoon full of a family towing 3 kids on a tube, zig-zagging, down the river. Not only do you not know where they are going next, you don't know if the person in tow is going to eat shit right in front of you. It is hard to pass these guys and often a traffic jam of boats is behind them in some spaces. Oviously when they are coming at you it is also a problem. I try to be respectfull when I encounter these guys but FUCK it is just not safe todo this shit sometimes. I feel watersports shouldnt be allowed between the hours of 12PM and 6PM on the weekends. At least on the river. I do not have enough experiance on the lakes to talk about this issue.