Wake boats are specialized watercraft designed to create large wakes for wake surfing, wake boarding or tubing. Over about the last decade these boats have become increasingly popular among water ...

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection should investigate what other states and local governments are doing to regulate wake boats. The State of Connecticut and local ...

As wake boats become more popular, advocates worry about the impacts on Wisconsin lakes. More Wisconsinites are using wake boats — designed to generate big waves for water sports like wake surfing — ...

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If you’re a boat lover, enjoy being on the water and are searching for the perfect mix of performance, sustainability and cutting-edge technology, this electric wake boat might just be the thing ...

MINNEAPOLIS — For some Minnesotans, it’s the ideal way to spend a summer day on the lake: wakesurfing a perfectly curled wave behind a powerboat with no worries of getting tangled in a tow rope or ...

They call it “Gigawave” for a reason. This high-powered, all-electric watercraft is promising to create the biggest, tallest, and best-curling wave for the ultimate thrill ride in the fast-growing ...

Wake-enhanced boats and cigarettes came to mind while musky fishing on an Oneida County lake. I gave up casual smoking 32 years ago, long before Gov. Jim Doyle and the Legislature passed a law ...

Newly released proposed rules for the use of wake boats on Vermont’s lakes and ponds would be the most restrictive in the nation. But some say they don’t go far enough in regulating the large, ...

At a recent meeting of the Midwest Wakesurf Association, co-leader Andy Weigman had some good news to share: Wake boats have been less noisy this year, he'd been told — by the leader of an ...

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