Last May I purchased my first boat. After having it for a week I decided to take my wife and son out for a late Friday afternoon cruise to try out the new prop and repaired skeg on my boat ( thats another story). As we were coming back into the Marina cruising slowly so I thought through the no wake zone, I noticed a white Crown Victoria on the shore opposite my Marina (James River Marina in Newport News, VA)A guy was standing next to the Crown Vic waving to me. I thought it was one of the Police officers that I know from my gym so I waved back. He waved again and I waved back, my wife thougt he was just being friendly and suggested that we continue to the dock which i did. Once i got to the dock the owner of the Marina came down to tell me that he thought the officer wanted me to come over to him. By this time the Officer had hijacked a Carolina Skiff to bring him across the creek. By the time I was tied up he had made it across, had hauled him self up onto the gas dock and was making his was to me beet red and sweating profusley. This was a local game and inland fisheries officer patroling the water from a car.<br /><br />He approached me and asked if I noticed his waving me over to him, I replied that it looked as if he was waving to me not at me. He then proceeded to tell me that he was going to write me up for evading an officer of the law and creating a wake in a no wake zone. I asked him why he did not use his siren or bull horn to call me over ..he then decided to only write the wake ticket. He lectured me for 15 minutes on wakes. told me if someone was cooking on their boat with an alchohol stove and I caused it to fall over and the boat burned to a crisp I would be liable. I totally understood and agreed with him except for the fact that everybody who saw what had happened said the wake was barely visible. My wife then decides to engage this guy in a discussion about the proper PFD for my son, who was wearing one at the time. While I am standing there about to blow a fuse they are discussing life jackets for the better part of 20 minutes. After that she walked off and he gave me my ticket. At this point I was so mad i could barely see, I walked up to her and asked why she did not just invite the $#!!#@ over for dinner to which she replied "who"? Turns out she felt she could convince him not to write me up by being nice.<br /><br />This wound up costing me $200.00
