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Florida Sportsman airboat rant!!!

The pictures show the airboat barely moving and completely complient with the law. It has a flag as required. I don't see any flag on the canoe to let the airboat or anyone else know where he is.
 
I dunno I think that maybe since this kid is only 21yr old is maybe doing some poor judgment and probably under the influence too. But I could be wrong.
 
yakity yak dont talk back them guys sound like a bunch of crybabys to me definily not true floridians if anybody can tell me of 1 accident involving a airboat and a kyac canoe ill be surprised
 
Unfortunately there are bad apples in every bunch. I was just commenting on the picture as it appears.
 
heck the only pictures the guy took was when the airboat pulled up to talk to him. also no one mentioned at least that I saw that airboats basically have to be under some power to steer and that they have a better field of site because the diver is in the air rather then down in the water like the kayak ( I kayak also) so the airboat very possibly could see where he was going. I kayaker ASSUMES because he could not see over the island form his kayak that the airboat who is sitting 5-6' higher also would not be able to see
even before I started playing with airboats I never had a problem with them I could get my little tunnel boat in places most would think only a airboat would go and if one was coming never (and I was well cameoed) I would just stand up so they could see me never any problems with a airboat now bass boats are another story
heck I don't like bass boats and there are quite a few that I would describe with words I can't post on here but I know not all of them are like that. This guy is just plain prejudices and unfortunately there are many people that don't like something just because it's not the way they do it notice he he said "that big boat "

well that's my two cents wroth anyway
 
i love how people generalize airboaters, that just goes to show you that there are ignorant people every were. and for that NED dude hes just mad because he was the sweat meat of the fleet, what a cry baby.
 
I almost ran over a kyack one time in a creek.I think they should have flags just like us.When you round a curve in the creek there he was .It was a honest mistake but Im sure he bashed me to some one.I was not drinking and had my family with me and I was in the creek not jumping hills..I had to jump the embankment to keep from hitting him.It has made me more aware that they are up in the creeks.The moral of the story live and learn,but if he would of had a flag I would had seen him.
 
The best thing that we can do for the future of airboating is not defend discourteous airboaters. We need to start calling them to the carpet or we're gonna continue to lose our rights. We should be the most vocal opponents of these guys.

I'm well aware that there are those who just hate all airboats and will embellish their tales of woe to try and influence the opinions of others. But the public needs to know that we are serious about policing our own.

There are just enough of the "screw you" crowd out there that it makes us all look bad. I spent several years as an OTR truckdriver and it was the same story there.
 
Its getting to where we can only run our airboats during hunting season when its cold as the rest of the year is covered with Kayaks. even our private marsh where they dont mind getting out on the grass and trespassing they are getting thick. I have had numerous occasions where I have had to put my airboat on the bank to avoid a kayak that was in a slough and couldent be seen. We need to stick togather I am sick and tired of these kayak people! (I clicked over and read that whole thread, souds like a couple of crybaby weenies, there probably mad beacause Florida wont pass the same sex marriage refarendum) By the way I run mufflers on my boat and its pretty quiet but I dont want a silent airboat I absalutly love the sound of an airboat and is part of the mystic of running one . Calm Seas.. Capt. Scott
 
Question:
What is a kayak with-out a TALL flag on it?

Answer:
A speed bump!

I know that's not a productive thing to say. Sorry!
After reading the rant, I'm not excactly sure the airboaters actually did anything wrong.

Bottom line opinion I have is this.

Kicker boats, canoes, kyaks, innertubers, all of them....
If they are gonna go back in the tall grass where airboats are known to operate, they should have a tall orange flag.

Just for thier own safety!
I would hate to be involved with an accident with any other people enjoying the public resources. Kyaks included.

FLY FLAGS!
ALL Y'ALL!

JMO
 
becktc2004":2g059oi7 said:
I almost ran over a kyack one time in a creek.I think they should have flags just like us.When you round a curve in the creek there he was .It was a honest mistake but Im sure he bashed me to some one.I was not drinking and had my family with me and I was in the creek not jumping hills..I had to jump the embankment to keep from hitting him.It has made me more aware that they are up in the creeks.The moral of the story live and learn,but if he would of had a flag I would had seen him.
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The only close call I ever had was with another airboat. It was six or seven years ago and neither of us had flags.

I don't run the little creeks and inlets much at all anymore. My next door neighbor is a kayaker and asked me once where was the safest place to be, on the inside or outside of a turn, if he heard an airboat coming. After thinking about it real hard I decided there isn't a safe place. When I did ride the little creeks I mostly kept my bow hugging the inside. On the one hand it would be easier to swing wide to have to miss someone, but then you're not going to see him as soon as if he was on the outside. If he's on the outside your choices are to jump up in the grass (may or may not be doable depending on the water level and other things) or try to cut sharper to the inside. I don't want to face any of those choices.

I've been airboating for about nine years now and for the first several was a bad airboater. The reason I was bad was because I was ignorant. Just because I love the sound of an airboat going by (I live on a marked airboat trail about a quarter mile from a boat ramp) doesn't mean my neighbors do. It took me a long time to figure that out.

I went on a poker run with about a dozen other boats one time. We were all no-waking down a long canal with marsh on one side and an rv park on the other. Most people were just watching with interest as we idled by, but one guy had to come out to the edge of the water and yell at one of the guys, who just happened to be the last in line. After doing a couple of dead-idle circles while the guy was going off on him, the airboater got lined up just right and blew all the guys camping stuff all over - chairs, gas grill, garbage, you name it. That was my last poker run.

When I leave my house now, I no-wake several hundred yards out and turn my prop away from the houses before getting up. I punch it just enough to get up quickly and then back off to minimum planing speed until I'm far away from the houses. When I see people fishing, if I can't swing a couple of hundred yards to a side, I break down and no-wake. I'm out there enjoying being on the boat anyway, a little no-waking doesn't keep me from getting where I'm going (I'm already there) and I hope it makes a good impression on the fishermen.
 
I run my boat on The St. Johns river near Sanford and Geneva, I always respect and try to look out for fisherman in bass boats canoes and kayacks, I understand there is a bad app;e in everybunch but I can rest assure you that I have came close to getting swamped a lot more by bass boats and other boats running wide open than this fella will even want to think about, I always slow down to an idle when these guys are fishing if the channel is very narrow out of courtesy I am a fisherman my self.

My problem is how stupid can this guy be if that's the way you feel about airboats then put a flag on your canoe so you can be seen. I fly a flag on my airboat none of these power boaters have ever slowed down for me, don't judge the airboating community on one incident.
 
The guy is full of it. Hitting a 2 to 3 ft embankment at 30 mph. That would be wreck-less!!!!! This will be the new battle front. Hear it comes.
 
I also am very courteuos to other boaters and try to instill that in my children and other airboaters.I believe the majority of boaters are not courteous rather they are in
a airboat or canoe or bassboat.I have been in channels in a bass boat and been
almost capsized by bigger boats that could have slowed down or moved to the other side of the river.It seems to me that airboaters just get pick on the most or are a bigger target.The extremist are going to exploit the easy target.What ever happen with the kayat is going to be blown out of proportion on that forum.Time to be more couteous rather you want to or not.
 
I have no idea if this kid was posing any danger to these guys or not. I wasn't there. What really got to me was the guy with the sticker on the rear window of his pick-up showing two airboats about to run over a canoe.

How dumb do you have to be to go around spreading a negative image of something that you love? I know he's trying to be funny, but I mean come on.....that's ignorant!
 
frognutz,
I looked at that picture of the decal to the guy could have put it on to be funny but really its all i how you look at the picture just because the decal was posted in this post about a o called dangerous airboater most assume that decal is of the canoe about to be run over but if we looked at it somewhere else they may be in a group or just pulling up to talk


cowboy,
I was close I answered "Thump" :lol:
 
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