What some boaters are doing to create larger, more forceful wakes

Enhance Your Boat Wake

http://waterski.about.com/cs/accessoriesboat/ht/EnhanceWake.htm

Bigger Wakes for Wakeboards

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22Boat+Wake%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Boat Wake surf weight and ballast

http://www.howtowakesurf.com/Ballast.jsp

Wakeboard & Wakesurf Boats

http://www.mla.on.ca/Page.asp?PageID=122&ContentID=868

‘Wake sports’ roil waters

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/08/30/noski.ART_ART_08-30-07_B1_NL7OMB6.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101

Boat wake system - US Patent 6953002

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6953002.html

Links to study reference sites about Boat Wake Damage

Rideau Canal - Canada

http://www.rideaufriends.com/stopwash/stopwash05.html

Wakes can Make More Waves Than You Think

http://www.fish.state.pa.us/anglerboater/2007/05sepoct/feat1wakes.pdf

Wake Up? Slow Down

http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/Attachments/LJEM-6J96XQ/$FILE/Guide%20to%20Low%20Wave%20Wake%20Boating.pdf

National Centers for Costal Ocean Science

http://www8.nos.noaa.gov/nccos/npe/projectdetail.aspx?id=584&fy=2007

Watching Your Wake: A Boaters Guide (Oregon)

http://www.boatoregon.com/OSMB/library/docs/WatchWake.pdf

USCG National Department of Public Affairs

http://www.auxpa.org/releases/20070504-Press_Release.pdf

SHORELINE EROSION CAUSED BY BOAT WAKE:

http://www.marinfo.gc.ca/Doc/Erosion/Erosion_des_berges_EN.pdf

Mississippi River Bank Erosion

http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/education_safety/safety/boatwater/riverbankerosion.pdf

NOAA

http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/books/clncoast/clean21.htm

Wakeboard Boat Operation (Oregon)

http://www.oregon.gov/OSMB/safety/wakeboat.shtml

Estimating Boat Wake induced levee erosion

http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JWPED5000128000004000152000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes

Boat Smart: Wake Up

http://www.torresen.com/sailing/content_archives/001204.php

Getting out on the Sound – Good boating practices

http://www.forsea.org/pugetsoundbook/boating.html

NY Harbor Boat Wakes

http://www.iboatnyharbor.com/Wakes-sensitive%20Areas.htm

Boat Wake Induced Bank Erosion on the Kenai River, Alaska

http://tsalteshi.org/KenaiRiverCenter/Publications/BWS_Phase_II.pdf

Boating and Habitat

http://www.fish.state.pa.us/anglerboater/2001/ja2001/boathab.htm

Effects of Recreational Boating on the Upper Mississippi River (Corps of Engineers)

http://www.mvp.usace.army.mil/docs/nav/effects.pdf