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Originally Posted by Evenstar
So a powerboater should be able to "enjoy the lake his way", even if it prevents others from enjoying the lake? So what am I supposed to do to feel safe, when some powerboaters are traveling 15 times faster than me? Maybe that's exactly what this law is the result of ... people like me who are just doing "what they need to do to feel safe".
That's just a well known kayak quote, that I happen to like. I'm not trying to infer anything by it. All boaters obviously love the water.
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Well in fact what I am saying is that for a large part people that drive high performance power boats do have very quick reaction time. You have to to know how to throttle one. People who do not know how to drive one just DO NOT UNDERSTAND what it takes. You do not just jump in the thing and push the throttles forward and sit back. There is a lot that you have to do and it all takes quick reaction times. So in fact I would say that there is a good chance that my reaction times are better then most.
However lets take reaction times out of the picture and say that we all have the same reaction times (there is plenty of proof that this is not true but just for arguments sake). What my point was above is that when you go faster be it in a car, sailboat, power boat what ever, most poeple concentrate quite a bit more on what they are doing. People that drive around in small bow riders from what I have seen are not as well aware of their surroundings as most of us that drive fast and will just turn with out looking, come to close (as happened to you with the jerk in the cruiser), or even take them out in conditions that they just should not be in. I have on more then one occasion seen guys out with bow riders and the waves coming over the bow because they hav 10 people in their 18 foot boat.
At any rate ALL of the close calls that I have had on that lake have been while traveling at slow speeds NONE of them while traveling fast. I have no interest in going close to another boat. I have no interest in pissing off some guy in a Kayak and ruining his day. I run my boats in the middle of the bays were it is safe to do so and I think that most of the guys that run speed boats are the same.
Jon