Posted by David Bamford on December 14, 2002 at 22:16:44 from 203.10.110.133 user David.
In Reply to: Waggle in Wake posted by Ed Kiser on December 14, 2002 at 21:52:00:
As I understand it, the scorn heped upon the perpetrator of a waggly wake is because, as AR says, it shows that the helmsman has other things on his or her mind rather than steering the boat. It orignates in commercial or naval ships crossing oceans, where a straight course steered helps the navigator to have confidence in his D.R. [deduced reckoning] position.