The old "speed on Breydon" chestnut raises an interesting question....
Late last year, we picked up a rope around one of the drives that caused a vibration. Removing the rope seemed to stop the vibration, but to be sure, I took a trip to Breydon for a couple of high speed runs (all in the interest of testing you understand, no enjoyment was had whatsoever ).
We passed a couple of hire boats in the opposite direction (one of whom wanted us to go past fast, but we resisted!) having slowed to around 6mph, until they were clear of our wash.
On the return leg, however, we again caught up with the cruisers. I did wonder about giving them a wide berth and carrying on planing as we went past them because the wash is really pretty small at planing speeds. However, I did what I thought was the courteous thing and slowed down. As it turned out, one of the cruisers was flat out at about 7mph, so in order to overtake, I had to be doing 8-9mph. This obviously creates quite a lot of wash, and whilst I understand it is the accepted "right thing to do" I am sure from the look on the occupants faces it was a whole lot more uncomfortable for them as a result.
Opinions?
(and please don't say I should have stayed behind them and not overtaken, Smelly. They were not even halfway across Breydon and there was still a mile or so of essential testing to be done! )