Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/02/16/what-happens-to-nearby-streams.html
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I have seen this video before, though I forget how it came to my attention.
Glad to hear some positive changes were made because of it.
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Okay, how about a thousand-footer with hydrofoils. No displacement, no problem, right?
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…and the issues shown in this video have since subsided.
Get it? Subsided?
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They should really put up a
“SLOW
NO WAKE”
sign.
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‘…giant tidal wave…’
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Why aren’t those houses on stilts or ziggurats or something?
I’d never build a house foundation that close to the waterline on totally flat ground. Seems reckless and foolish.
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So I have no experience with boats of any kind, but ti was my understanding that you are always responsible for damage cause by your own wake or displacement, yes?
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I have a complaint…could you please for the love of god shield the mic from the wind!!!
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Does all that wake mean the stream got woke?
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Regardless of how much the stream is waked, it will never get out of its bed.
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Seriously, people need to build more responsibly.
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Don’t you understand free markets?..
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Having never experienced one, probably not. 
I get your point though!
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The surge isn’t a matter of displacement so much as it is a bow wave. Those vessels have a bulb shaped projection extending forward of the bow, below the waterline. At their best cruising speed it sets up a wave train so the boat is sliding downhill the whole way, saving fuel. Given that the best cruising speed is about 15 knots, there is a solid temptation to exceed the speed limits. Interestingly, the surge does not lay back in a V from the bow in the usual way, but extends directly abeam from the bow.
Every vessel is responsible for damage from its wake. Damage needs a cost asigned and a source proven. Much easier to show an isolated wake shook someone off a masthead than having a property diminshed a tablespoon at a time over the course of years.
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besides the wake issue, it looks like a lovely place to live.
You could say the captain was knoty.
levi will come and levi’s will go
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