Now imagine your Centurion being impaled on your dock from the same wakes. A few posts ago you were alluding to lawyers taking away freedom? Freedom is all well and good when it doesn't damage other people. Then, the perspective (must) change. I say that as a wakeboat owner, long time public lake property owner, and recipient of wake damage from totally ridiculous operation.
Personally, I lay substantial responsibility on the manufacturers. Whereas the PWC industry knew they had to tone back the speeds of what they were capable of or else they'd find themselves in governmental crosshairs, wake boat manufacturers provide zero helm reminders (to my knowledge, and I've had 15+ wakeboats) to people of some basic damage/reputation mitigation. Had we seen for the last 10 years some basic helm reminders to avoid shorelines, avoid boats at anchor, use discretion when using your $10,000 stereo, some face could have been saved that guns don't kill people, people do (wake boats don't cause damage, people do). They've been pumping boats out to people, many with simply limited understanding of "most" people know. And, as a result of clearly insufficient educational efforts, governments will start throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Hardly a surprise.