That's really an interesting comment. The ICW is a place where it takes two to tango, most of the time.Spend some time on the ICW.
I used to have 6 very fast Sport Fish boats that I delivered north each spring and brought back to Fla each fall.
If the sailboat I was passing dropped his boat into neutral for a few seconds as I passed, all would be well and over quickly. However, there are those who blindly maintained speed, leaving me no option but to bump it up from the smallest wake possible, to the boat's most horrendous wake, a speed (6 to 8 knots) the boat was never designed to go at. I couldn't just hang around behind a guy doing 4.5 knots or so. Nobody should expect a much faster boat to remain behind them if there is room to pass safely.