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Originally Posted by JG1222
Acres, if you can't see how boater education (like driver education for cars and rider education for motorcycles/snowmobiles) plays a significant role in preventing, reducing or avoiding situations where fatalities or injuries could occur (like safe operation and speeding which, in case you haven't noticed, happens to be the subject of this thread), it probably wouldn't make much sense to try to explain it.
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My points:
1) If you pilot a boat with less than 25HP, the test is not required.
2) If you pilot a boat with less than 25HP, AND never took the test AND became "roadkill", the MP would put a check-mark in the report-box next to "None"
?. (No BoaterEd).
3) Boaters with
more than 25HP may know the rules, but are
less likely to become "roadkill".
4) Boaters with
less than 25HP may-or-may-not know the rules, but are
more likely to become "roadkill".
Actually, I've been increasingly surprised at the apparent effect that BoaterEd has had on Winnipesaukee. I still have rental-neighbors who "didn't know our rules" on BoaterEd, and had to "park" their boats. It's still hard to tell if a Big Boat, approaching at warp speed, has taken the test.
The violators seem to be mostly Jet-Skis with underage operators, 30-somethings full of themselves, and the few grey-hairs that aren't required to take the test as of yet.
BTW: I've been to the
Marine Mafia site (Yes, Cal, you're right. I think I'll remove
my e-mail option at our User CP now).
There are calls
there to "push" our little speed-limit poll
here.
They've also supposedly
"removed the malicious content" from their
Winnipesaukee thread; but who could tell
Not me.
They've cleaned up their act
some since last summer, but still have too many images...um...disrespectful-to-women...plus too much foul language for me to post the URL here. (They've added a new, exclusive, pay-per-view, um, Disrespectful-To-Women link. Tony S. would be proud).
Needless to say, they're calling up their big guns from Massachusetts -- and elsewhere, too -- to Concord. "Don't Go Acting Like an Idiot", they're counciling.
Now why would a Big-Boater site advise that?
