# Multiple boats sink at Trump boat parade on Lake Travis in Texas **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 5, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905 "2020-09-05T21:39:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/61 "2020-09-06T19:31:38Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > I’m confused. These are all boat owners, (even if ‘boaters’ only rarely). How can they NOT understand the basic physics of another boat’s wake? > > How is that even possible? > > Wouldn’t you basically figure it out, first outing in your new boat? > > Small children at camp, in canoes and small sailboats, get it right away. > > What am I missing? We owned a number of sailboats over the years, and among other things, we found that the worst boaters were power boaters on the water on Memorial Day, July 4, and Labor Day - it seemed those were the only times they launched. In our experience, many of them had no concept of “rules of the road” as applied to boating, nor did they know that each boater is responsible for any damage caused by their vessel’s wake. Plus, well, alcohol. On top of that, pretty much anyone can buy a boat and go out on the water without any training. How hard can it be, right?? 🙄 I know some states require boater safety training, but that doesn’t stop anyone from buying and launching. Politics aside, this was an exercise in stupidity, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/62 "2020-09-06T19:46:26Z")
The fucking idiots did the same thing to some innocent by-boaters couple weeks ago here in Portland. They seem to really like going past at that perfect speed (seems to be around 15-20 mph) where the bow stays up and the wake is the hugest. As a kayaker, I personally wish these shitfucks would all basically drown themselves as quickly as possible because they really DON’T understand wake rules–for instance, here in Oregon motorboats are required to go no-wake if they’re within 100 feet of anchored boats or non-motorized craft. Yet if you go out on the Willamette on any weekend day in summer in your kayak or canoe and you’re trying to paddle on a narrower bit of river (along which, if you’re south of Willamette Falls, there are personal docks every few hundred feet along most banks of the river) it is an ironclad guarantee that at least five fucking asshole stinkpots per hour will go blasting by at full speed, WAY within that 100 feet of both you AND the anchored boats in the personal docks and probably towing some other braindead asshole on a tube or skis or some such shit. It is also guaranteed that nobody in that boat will be wearing a life jacket and beer will be in hand for every fucking person noticeably over the age of ten or so. I really love our lakes that don’t allow motorized craft and it’s telling that the fucking stinkpot owners try every fucking year to get those lakes opened up to their particular brand of shitheadedness. And I say this as someone who learned to drive a motorboat at about age six or so. These people are stupid and they suck. > **[Boat sinks on Willamette River as ‘Trump Boat Parade’ passes by](https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/08/boat-sinks-on-willamette-river-as-trump-boat-parade-passes-by.html)** > > A boat on the Willamette River took on water and sank Sunday afternoon after being swamped by waves as a “Trump Boat Parade” passed. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/63 "2020-09-06T19:59:06Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > > [@elbows](#): > > > > These are all boat owners, (even if ‘boaters’ only rarely). How can they NOT understand the basic physics of another boat’s wake? … What am I missing? > > … well, alcohol. This was all you needed. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/64 "2020-09-06T20:30:42Z")
What you are missing is that they are not Canadians raised in a canoe. They are American MAGA Trump supporters who revel in ignorance ---
**Author:** ![Teuton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teuton/32/3864_2.png) [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/65 "2020-09-06T20:35:14Z")
Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers, won’t drown. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/66 "2020-09-06T20:35:49Z")
Ah, they’re the coal rollers of the boat world. Fuck those guys. And they’re Trump supporters. Fuck them sideways. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/67 "2020-09-06T20:40:18Z")
Just be sure to wear both a condom and a pfd. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/68 "2020-09-06T20:43:08Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Just be sure to wear both a condom and a pfd. - Personal Friction Device? ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/69 "2020-09-06T20:43:26Z")
We need to celebrate the names of this amazing parade: Dumbkirk (as noted) Operation Pettycrook The Floundering Fathers The Sinking of the Losertania The Titanic Parade The Blue Wave How the GOP got wake The klannish Armada ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/70 "2020-09-06T20:47:09Z")
Doris Day-[The Glass Bottom Boat.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBD68bFyhQY) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/71 "2020-09-06T20:50:28Z")
Perfect parody. > ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/72 "2020-09-06T20:54:13Z")
One that I heard earlier today was: “Poseidon for Biden!” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/73 "2020-09-06T20:59:46Z")
^^“I don’t know what happened, I just think we just had too many MAGA flags on the boat, I never thought I’d say that, but we had too many MAGA flags on the boat…” “if I’m not going to wear a mask I’m damn sure not going to wear that life jacket they keep throwing at me…” ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/74 "2020-09-06T21:06:52Z")
> This is from further down the page with the parody article. Anyone else see it? It’s pretty powerful, from a service member. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/75 "2020-09-06T21:13:46Z")
> [@bump](#): > > One that I heard earlier today was: > > “Poseidon for Biden!” [![](https://i.imgur.com/3L2tMLQ.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/3L2tMLQ.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/76 "2020-09-06T21:27:37Z")
Heh. “The SS MAGAritaville.” 😆 ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/77 "2020-09-06T22:12:35Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Here in Ft. Lauderdale a few weekends ago we had a controversy where a hundred+ boat Trump rally showed up in one of the large basins. > > Despite existing mask mandates for boaters and group size limitations explicitly including people on boats, which substantially zero boats complied with, local law enforcement elected to simply hang out a quarter mile away and watch from a safe (for them) distance. There was no enforcement of life jacket or DWB laws either. > > Not a good look for our local cops or the state Fish & Wildlife service. Easily explained by the fact that most police are Trump supporters and let their politics influence their work. This also explains a lot of the police’s actions (or lack of action) during BLM protests, especially when there’s a counter protest by Prayer Boys or whatever they call themselves. > [@bobot](#): > > Ah, they’re the coal rollers of the boat world I was thinking the exact same thing. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/78 "2020-09-06T22:21:33Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Dumbkirk (as noted) > Operation Pettycrook > The Floundering Fathers > The Sinking of the Losertania > The Titanic Parade > The Blue Wave How about ‘Proud Buoys’? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/79 "2020-09-06T23:16:40Z")
Doesn’t sound like that ‘rising tide’ really _did_ lift all ships. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multiple-boats-sink-at-trump-boat-parade-on-lake-travis-in-texas/919905/80 "2020-09-07T17:05:18Z")
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