Just had enough of trying to get in the creek in the big boat then loading it on trailer why fighting off ignorant paddle boarders saw two crossing harbor last week idiot s
I stack my boat in Shem Creek so yes, I feel you. Not much we can do really since they have every right to be there but it does make for some dangerous situations when boats at the bars are rafted 4 deep on both sided and paddle boarders take up the remaining waterway. Also, most of them are renting the boards and have no experience on the water. The best is when a handful of them block the only channel under the bridge at low tide and won’t move because they think I can take my boat through one of the other sections.
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The ramp is for actual boats on trailers… It sucks when they pull 2 or 3 kayaks or paddle boards out into the ramp and then go park their Prius at wild wings all the while you are sitting there wondering why they didn’t just set them on the dock. They do need their own little ramp and dock for sure
There is a perfect spot just to the right (if facing the water) for yaks and paddleboards. As someone that has a powerboat and kayaks, I try not to denigrate all yakkers and such. That being said, I believe most of them are simply ingnorant of the rules and too many lack any real common sense.
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”.
Sail boats under sail and non power boats have the right of way. I stay away from Shem creek with all that mess these days. Good luck with boating in that area and stay safe.
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They have as much right to the water as we do, unfortunately they are usually ignorant tourists, but they do have the right of way, no matter what. I also stay away, way far away. There are places I can go where they can’t paddle to in a week, or find their way home 
If they are in my way at a ramp, I can move them. Nothing to get upset over. People can’t help what they don’t know. Take a few minutes and educate them. They just don’t know.
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You “have to have” somewhat of common sense to own,trailer, and operate a boat…but the same is not true for paddleboarders and kayaks. While I own both, I see both sides, but this situation everyone is describing is NO different than all the dummies in this town that can’t drive or navigate a car around town on a daily basis! People drive cars every day and still can’t figure out how the flow works so we can’t expect them to do any better getting in and out of a (stressful to them) place like a boat landing or a creek where the main goal is to seen and be seen! We already have enough rules in this world so that isn’t my proposed solution but something better needs to happen…
That’s why I quit going to shem creek. You can’t make it from the harbor to the ramp in less than a half hour most of the time, let alone find somewhere to park. They have every right to be there, but I’ll leave it to them.
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Wow, I thought I was only one with a gripe here. I have a 'yak, both sons and soon to be son-in-law too. Still, we understand the rules of the road and know that a boat requires more water than a yak. Worse, they are all over both sides of the channel. I do not mind sharing God;s great gift: not at all. However, as I take precautions when they are out of the no wake zone, I expect the same. Courtesy from us all is key. I am however, thinking of IOP marina or Remley’s as it is getting silly on the creek.
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It isn’t their fault that they don’t have the common sense that God gave a horse. With the modern judicial system they don’t have to have common sense. Why should they be courteous to others? They aren’t the ones that will be punished if it escalates. The law protects them and modern medicine keeps them alive.
I remember when i was a young boy watching a guy get the tar beat out of him at the boat landing one morning. He put his boat in and then after parking his truck decided to have a conversation with a guy sitting in a truck. Well another guy wanting to launch pushed his boat off. Needless to say that the guy should have just kept talking to the guy in the truck. And just like that he got taught some common sense.
I wonder if the rental shops provide any instructions other than “wear a life jacket”, etc… Just some basic stuff that many noobs don’t think about when on the water. Silly I know but that may actually alleviate some problems. Then again some people are simply too obtuse or too inconsiderate to do any better.
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”.
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Originally posted by DFreedomI wonder if the rental shops provide any instructions other than “wear a life jacket”, etc… Just some basic stuff that many noobs don’t think about when on the water. Silly I know but that may actually alleviate some problems. Then again some people are simply too obtuse or too inconsiderate to do any better.
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”.
Oh they have paddle board classes with instructors and helpers and such. Always holding their class blocking the walkway to the dock at IOP. It starts before you even get in the boat:angry: Has anyone done a paddle board? Looks boring to me.
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every once in a while they paddle around my fishing lines down here, but not nearly as bad as charleston. when they do (too close that is) and after i drop a shark bait, ill often paddle near them in the yak, wait for a wave, catch it, and ride it in and watch them fall a good amount of the time never tried the paddleboard myself, but ill take the $300 yak i can fish out of and ride waves when i want to over the $1000+ paddle board any day!
I personally think a stand up paddle board is the stupidest water craft ever invented. Put a sail on that thing and you’ve got something. But they still have every right, no, more rights than a motorboat. So I just don’t go where they do. Problem solved.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
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I bet they put yeti stickers on them to lol
A $1000 for a painted plank and paddle?
Wonder if the inventor is the son of the guy who thought up selling water in a bottle.
Yeti suction-cup coolers for several C-notes apiece to keep their Fuji water chilled?
Treat them like any vessel: once up close, sound the appropriate sound to indicate your intent. Granted, it’s a request, but an air horn from behind may motivate them and any others ahead. Just following the rules…
Kayakers are not much better. HAd an instructor call me out for feeding pelicans in Shem Creek yesterday. He told me I would get a ticket if DNR saw me doing that. I asked him how many other false statements he had made on his trip that afternoon…
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Yes, every time I turn around it seems there is another water toy invented.
Was transiting Horlbeck the other day on my way offshore; came across one of those paddle-board classes-must have been 50 of them-almost blocking the whole creek!
Thought it might be fun to plant my stern while passing to see how they would do in rough water; but common sense got the better of me.
Seems to me that more and more places we used to go thru at 30kts are reduced to 5kts nowadays.
-kayaks
-paddle boards
-scullers
-swimmers
-canoers
Wonder what’s coming next?
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Originally posted by trimedoutI bet they put yeti stickers on them to lol
“trimmed” is spelled with two m’s. Lol…
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