Name:   Lifer - Subject:   Wake Board Boats Date:   7/28/2014 6:28:38 PM

Every vessel operator is absolutely responsible for any and all damage done by the wake they create.  You can pursue them in Civil court for any damages that you can prove a driver created, but the problem is the proof aspect.  In most cases it will be the communitive affect of repeated violations that will cause peirs, docks, seawalls etc to fail and not a single instance. 

Thats the law, but the reality is very few know the law as evidenced by the fact that you are a property owner and assuming a boat owner/operator also, yet you had to come here to find out if you had recourse against the offenders.  If you didn't know, do you think they know, and even if they know, do they care?  Most are totally obivlious to what the wake does past the point of their companion riding it. 

You can always set up a video camera and try to capture the offenders hull numbers along with evidence of the effects of what they leave behind and try to track them down and go through the courts to seek restitution for proavable damages.  Myself, I would build a 'potato cannon' load it with tennis balls and fire away.  A hit or even a near miss would most likely set them about finding you and then you could politely educate and inform them of their transgressions and seek a mutually beneificial compromise or you could reload and take a more effective point blank shot!  Either way they will get the message.