I am not making excuses for this behavior--and am also a bit provoked by the flotella of flying boats--be it Sea Rays or Donzi. When in a narrow section of ICW and there are small boats which might be swamped any fast boater should slow down. However, I might explain some of the fast boater's behavior. First it probably was too choppy for the Sea Rays outside--be it comfort or safety. Next, when a group of boats are running fast together this produces a rather dangerous situation. The boats are affected by the boat ahead's wake--unless they are all in one line. If a fast boat is trimmed bow down and on a plane (certainly the most effecient with a flat wake)--there is some danger of "bow steering"--which in a deep V is the bow digging in and the boat running off to one side on the flat of the V, rather than tracking straight, especially when caught in another boats wake. This condition is provoked by the wakes of the other boats--and may be why they were improperly trimmed--by keeping the bows up the "bow steering" danger could be avoided. I ran into a similar situation this weekend--Pensacola Blue Angel Air Show. We went 30 miles outside in 2 to 3 foot chop at 20 knots (our usual 25 to 28 knots was too uncomfortable). Comming home, we went on the ICW because my passengers were bounced around by the chop outside. As we came to the first narrow cut, the Coasties had RIB's to slow everyone down to no wake speed. There are many hundred boats which run the ICW during these events--so you can imagine the wakes. After the narrow cut, we run way outside of the ICW (it is deep enough) and outside of all of the other boats to avoid the changing direction of wake problem--thus we can continue in normal trim--and avoid dangerous situations. The other side of the coin for many planing boats is the fuel used and the much higher wake as the boat goes from displacement to planing speed. Bob Austin