If your small skiff is in a major shipping channel with larger boats, and especially if you're stopped or trolling slowly in that shipping channel as so many do, you can expect to get waked.

You can't help it if a whale suddenly appears alongside your boat, but everybody in that trade knows that every greenie around has a camera with a long lens looking to get a telephoto fore-shortened shot of a whale boat too close to a whale.   Then you get to spend a fortune on expert witnesses in a USCG hearing to prove that the issue is the telephoto lens, not your distance from the whale.   Juneau has a death wish; that's why I don't live there any more.