Tip: Effect of Wash
From Sun Cruiser Magazine

The wake of a vessel is the surface disturbance caused by its passing - even a sailboat leaves a wake. Wash is the set of V-shaped waves fanning out from the hull. In many areas of our inland waterways there are speed limits, but even where there are not, it is discourteous to produce a wash that causes other vessels to rock excessively.

Skippers are responsible for any injury or damage that their wash may cause to other people, other boats, or to the shoreline. The wash may not reach the shore until well after the boat has passed, and it is only by looking back a long way that its effect is noticed.

Warning the skipper of the effect of the wash is a particularly useful role that a passenger can fulfill.

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