This page is Project Wake Surfs Pike Lake’s anonymous complaint box, wildlife gallery, comedy club, and shoreline diary rolled into one.
Had your morning coffee attempt a double backflip off the dock?
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Watch a loon give you “the look” after another giant wake rolled through?
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🦆 Ducks teaching their babies to swim
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🦅 Eagles overhead
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Last year while out on the boat with my kids the Wake boat crossed our path. Thought I left enough space, but was I ever wrong. My smaller aluminium boat hit the wake and bounced us hard a few times. Both kids flew up off the seat and dropped back down with each wave. My tackle box exploded and the experience gave me and my kids quite the scare. Since that day when I see that Wake boat anywhere close, I’m waiting or turning around. Those waves are no joke, especially for small boats with kids.
Sounds like you could use the boaters safety course. Its not the surfers fault you don’t pay attention to water and drive accordingly
I want to be very clear about the laws and responsibilities around wake impacts in Ontario, especially on narrow lakes like Pike Lake. While you’ve mentioned you’re “not responsible” for what your wake does, the law says otherwise:
Wake = Operator’s Responsibility
Under the Canada Shipping Act and Ontario’s Small Vessel Regulations, boat operators are legally responsible for managing their wake. If your waves cause injury, damage, or force smaller vessels into unsafe situations, you can be held liable. There’s no exemption because the impact is “indirect.”
Duty of Care on Narrow Lakes
Operators have a duty of care to other boaters, swimmers, and shoreline property. On Pike Lake, where space is limited, that duty is even higher. Courts have consistently ruled that if harm from a wake is reasonably foreseeable….. such as tossing a small aluminum boat with children aboard, you are responsible for the consequences.
Speed & Wake Restrictions
By law, boats must travel 10 km/h or less within 30 metres of shore. On narrow lakes like Pike Lake, these limits effectively apply across much of the waterway, especially when passing smaller craft.
Financial Liability
If someone is injured due to your wake:
Personal injury claims are capped at $1 million under the Marine Liability Act.
Property damage can cost up to $750,000–$1.5 million, depending on the case.
If it’s shown that the operator acted recklessly….for example, knowingly generating large wakes near small boats with children aboard, those caps can be removed entirely.
Tay Valley Township has formally raised concerns with Transport Canada about wake boats on Pike Lake due to safety risks and property damage. This is already on the radar of regulators, and enforcement will only tighten from here.
Bottom line:
Saying “I’m not responsible for my wake” does not align with the law. If your actions cause injury or damage, you can be held accountable, legally and financially.
Given how narrow Pike Lake is and how vulnerable small vessels are, I’d strongly encourage caution when wake surfing here. A single incident causing harm, especially involving children could escalate into legal action quickly.
Safety should come first for all of us sharing this lake.
Best,
Know your surroundings and drive accordingly. Surf boats aren’t going anywhere. No laws are being broken and there is no reckless driving being done other than the people who can’t see and big wave and don’t slow down to cross it. If you drive into an island would it be the islands fault? That is what you are claiming. This website is a big waste of time and soon won’t be here anymore so enjoy it well it lasts.
Laws are being broken but not by the surf boats. Good thing you are a lawyer. Have a great winter we will see you again next year!!
There is no law that says people must have respect for this lake, care for the habitat, care for their neighbors, have a little grace. It is completely legal to shorten the boating season for others because their wake bottoms out boats in the low water this time of year. It’s completely legal to push wildlife to the edge. There is an endless list of things people can do that inconvenience others that are legal.
Meanwhile, if you and I sat together in a canoe and shared a drink, that would be illegal. Kind of strange, isn’t it?
Nobody is trying to fight with you. We really do want all of us to enjoy this place together. But just because something is allowed doesn’t always make it the right thing to do. Lakes are fragile. People’s property can be fragile. Wildlife is fragile. And when we only think about ourselves, it makes it worse for everyone else.
I get that you’re frustrated, and I hear you. I just hope we can all start caring a little more about each other and this lake that we share.
You’re obviously a spider man fan… What would Peter Parker do? 😋✌️
Friends and I were camping out at an island on Pike lake. Our friend was paddle boarding nearby. The Wake knocked her off the paddle board and dislodged our kayaks. Our friend who fell off the paddle board went up to them and had a few words. Long story short these people do not care… They are providing wake surf lessons and their number one priority is that their clients have a good time…. Regardless of the damage and inconvenience they cause others.
The folks who run this boat must know how much they are annoying Pike Lakers. Please read the room…stop pounding our boats, docks and shorelines. We only need one kind of Loon on the lake.
I saw them literally take out a giant tree on the shoreline. It’s crazy the damage they are causing. The entire tree just bobbed up and down in the water after it fell.
Be careful out there!
I think this site is amazing and hats off to the creator. It is so annoying to see the damage done to our beautiful lake and there isn’t anything we can do. We all work hard to buy our boats and docks and then watch someone that doesn’t care cause damage. Shame on you!
I think there are things we can do but we need to get organized. I am also fed up with the damage and disruption being caused by this boat and the owner’s complete disregard for those who are being affected, and that includes the loons! I’d like to organize a group to plan steps that can be taken to deal constructively with the problem for next summer. Anyone interested?
Who made this? 😆
A family of Mergansers. 🙂