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fishinglady · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:42 am Post subject: No Wake Ordinance

Corpus Christi City Ordinance Ch.12, Article 1, sec.12-31 clearly spells out the laws governing No Wake zones in residential areas [Padre Isles, Tropic Isles] and the Packery Channel area. It also clearly defines what a wake is:

"Slow, No Wake" means the operation of a watercraft at the slowest possible forward speed necessary to maintain steerage and so as to create no breaking wave.

I have heard that the disregard of the No Wake zones has gotten so bad,and so dangerous to kayakers and others, that the City and other agencies are finally going to start active enforcement.

BayFly · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 2:28 pm Post subject:

Could the problem be the definition of a "breaking wave"? To me it means the wave being strong enough to make a "white cap". Am I totally off base?

wallhanger · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 3:09 pm Post subject:

A school of redfish swimming at you where you can see the water movement is considered a wake. If you look back behind the boat and you do not see large waves of water moving out away from the boat, you're probably ok. Doesn't need to have white caps. If a boat passes a shoreline and or dock area and creates only small splashes on the shore, they're doing fine. When it sends crashing waves with boats rocking up and down along the dock, slow down. I see this often along packery channel. Boats traveling to fast through a no wake zone and traveling right along the docks. Keep out away from the docks and your wake doesn't carry that far. You just cannot be in a hurry. I too hate putt putting along that length of stretch along packery but I know what damage it causes to boats and docks and have respect for that.

crhfish · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 6:10 pm Post subject:

This is just an idea to get folks to slow down. You could put up a security camera on your dock and at least get video. If you put it in the right place folks would eventually see and perhaps respond. A game camera would work also if set up to take a short video. You could even try one of those fake cameras that has the little light that detects movement and blinks. They are cheap now and not hard to install.