Took my boat, the kid, my best friend, his wife and kids boating / camping this weekend. Had a great time on the water Saturday until lunch. Wind was blowing 15-20 (inland lake) and it was a little choppy. <br /><br />Took another friend's daughter and her friend (they were camping that weekend too) out on the water, they played around swimming for a while. Picked up other friend and dropped first off (they're larger 20ish girls, too much weight for all 3 of them).<br /><br />Second round with them was ROUGH. Much rougher than the previous trips out. 1-2 foot waves CLOSE together, taller with wakes. If I went too fast we got beat up, too slow (read, not on plane) and we were taking water over the bow (bow rider, 16'). Park ranger said they'd had a boat swamp, and several sailboats capsize. <br /><br />Decided to go in, called to my friend on the phone and asked him to bring trailer over (took it off water, to drain it out and give me a rest). Park ranger was standing there, supervising. I got the boat all the way pulled out, and to make a long story short - I'm not allowed back on the water until I fix a few things (like the registration). Even though it's a current number, it's not MY number, nor is it the correct state. He flunked my throwable PFD (it works just fine, just has a very small rip in the vinyl), said my fire extinguisher was crap (it worked just fine when I showed him it was ok .. now it IS crap and I'll finish it up by showing the boy how to use it properly!).<br /><br />He found no other fault with the boat, or anything (except that "It looks like this boat is a work in progress. Kind of ugly.")<br /><br />It was MORE windy and more choppy rest of the weekend, so we packed up today and came home (twisted my ankle in the campsite .. totally diff story though!).<br /><br />Good weekend, nonetheless. Got to go on the maiden camping trip with the new popup trailer 
