There’s a time and place for speeding boats. Sure, it can be fun to zoom along the open water — but ignoring the “Slow/No Wake” signs can cause a wave of trouble. “Most folks come down, and they go in the boat, they have no regard for the wake behind them. They look forward, they don’t look behind,” said Capt. Doug Messeck of DNREC’s Fish & Wildlife Natural Resources Police. “That wake can extend out several hundred yards, and it impacts the shoreline, boats on docks, swimmers…” Wake is the trail of disturbed water left by a boat’s passage.
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