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Originally Posted by Bear Lover
I would hold a politicians vote against them, and I will. And I am in my right mind. They make the wrong choice they are OUT!
Speed was an issue in that accident. The GFBL boat was going more than the 25 mph proposed speed limit. This issue was minor because there was no speed limit so no violation and no fault to the driver.
But more importantly you are missing the point that the GFBL boat would not have been on the lake at all if there was a speed limit. People don't dock their 150k$ 90 mph boat on a lake with a 45 mph limit.
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I don't want to start another "war" over this point and I've said this in other forms before so I'll say it just this once more. I'm unsure how you can catagorically state that "speed was an issue in that accident". Last I knew the MP has estimated Littlefield's speed to be <30 mph. So let's say he was at the upper end of this and doing 30. The Hartmans boat was doing NWS (<6mph) so let's say it was 3 mph for a difference of 27 mph. I'd say the MP thought the speed issue was minor because it was minor, not because there's no night time SL. If you want to opine the speeds were greater OK but what's your basis for believing this higher speed ? I would add the following for your consideration. A SL of 25 mph also means 2 boats heading towards each other could, lawfully, have a differential speed of 50 mph. If a head-on collision occurs under this condition would excess speed to be blamed ? If not then how can a slower differential speed be at fault ? Of all the possible collision scenarios, head-on and overtaking (as was this case) by the stern are the easiest to recognize and avoid because there's no "am I on a collsion course or not" mental calculations to botch. Of the two (head-on or overtaking) I further say the latter is the easiest collision to avoid. So easy that even Littlefield's defense must have figured it out and came up with the lights out story so as to give their client an "out". I opined way back then and still think it now, the MP nailed the prime factor in the "accident", they just couldn't prove it.
As to your other point ("that the GFBL boat would not have been on the lake at all if there was a speed limit"), I would say maybe so but I'll opine maybe not. I think people buy such boats not for just their top end speed but for other factors as well. I would say there's a number of Porsches and Ferraris and BMWs and Corvettes and other more mundane performance cars sold and operated on our streets despite our low 55/65 MPH SLs (which these cars can exceed by 2x - 3x). People buy them for reasons beyond their top speed as well. A lake SL might cut down on the numbers of such boats perhaps but I don't think you see them gone from the lake.