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Hard not to weigh in on this one. I am subject to boats coming too close almost every morning once an hour after 1st light. The regulars who pull wire across the Race know where the wall is and where the shore guys can throw to, but the offenders are almost always day trippers and charter captain running across the bay. As sound travels very well across water, I let them know that they are too close, and if they ignore me I shout out to keep an eye on my (tin or popper), then I launch it over them. They tend to listen very well after that and stay off the beach, but it gets tiresome doing it week after week. I just don't get the boat mentality that they have to crowd the beach, and they expect the beach guys to wait for them to pass. Ignorance/stupidity or selfishness - who knows? But it happens far too often.
As TT says, we oftentimes have made a lot of effort to get to our spot, and we don't have the mobility to quickly move a mile or two. On the other hand, you are in a boat and have vast expanses of water to comb - go somewhere else.
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