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• Originally Posted by This'nThat

  You can actually plan around the markers, because they are all mapped out. And there's only a fixed number of them.

• ...but they're so skinny...2-inches across?
  
  Most kayakers are MUCH bigger.
  
  
  
  

  Originally Posted by This'nThat

  Navigation markers usually follow well-known rules. In fact, I don't know of any markers that don't follow the rules.

• I'm unclear what rules that kayakers are not following.
  
  

  Originally Posted by This'nThat

  Here are some of the differences between Navigation markers and Kayakers that might answer your question:
  

  Navigation markers stay in place -- where you expect them. Every day. Same spot.

• Powerboats don't have GPS-generated coördinates available to detect kayaks?
  
  

  Originally Posted by This'nThat

  Navigation markers wear distinct, pre-defined colors -- that actually mean something.

• My life jacket and Keppler kayaks are this color:
  
  
• Kinda "human" color...
  
  
• Where-oh-where, could Keppler—and I—have gone so wrong?
  
  

  Originally Posted by This'nThat

  And just to be complete, here are some of the similarities between Navigation markers and Kayakers. These similarities are not necessarily all good, though:
  

  Some Navigation markers are lit up. So are some Kayakers. The first is a good thing; the second not so good.

• Beware the drunk kayaker...
  
  

  Originally Posted by This'nThat

  When you see them, Navigation markers are so slow that you should have time to avoid them. Same with Kayakers.

• When don't you see Navigation markers...?
  
  

  Originally Posted by This'nThat

  Many Navigation markers are in some dangerous areas of the lake. After reading some of these comments, so are some Kayakers.

• Dangerous is weather, which has "done in" some notable boaters—who are not kayakers. Last year, that included over 12 powerboaters who hit the water swimming!
  
  
• Why pick on canoes, windsurfers, kayaks, scull-boats, inflatables, sailors and rowers, when The Gummint is looking to put PFDs on everyone in any moving boat?
  
  

  Originally Posted by This'nThat

  If you hit a Navigation marker, it's always your fault.

• They are kinda skinny...but you mean—like these:
  
  One that was bent-over twice, and the second, which has been cut-off—and was located just off a public beach?