You may have read a few months ago about a houseboat that burned due to spilled cooking oil. Well the whole story is that there's a no wake law on Lake Union and some folks just don't pay a whole lot of attention to that. They think that going kind of slow is the same thing. But when you're docked, it's not. The folks in that houseboat were just living their lives, cooking dinner when wakes hit the boat. On boats, you use gas stoves because electric stoves pull just too much amperage. So, spilled cooking oil is a big deal.
This morning, some big wakes hit my boat, causing several things to fall, including a lamp. Lampshade completely destroyed. No big deal, but drives the point home. When you live on a boat, you're aware of the wake, but it's not the same as a boat that goes out on open water where you completely secure everything. I passed living on the Duwamish because the no wake law is very regularly broken. Stuff to think about when thinking about living on the water.
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