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ITD · 05-04-2005, 08:58 AM

Boating Statistics 2003 from the US Coast Guard

http://www.uscgboating.org/statistic...stics_2003.pdf

Categories in the accident column Canoe/Kayak also Rowboats, pontoon boat, Sail only, inflatable, among others, all nicely spelled out.

More people died in Canoe/Kayak than PWC, interesting, flies directly in the face of comments by the anti-PWC crowd. Just an interesting point that I would not have suspected had I not looked.

In 2003 in New Hampshire there were 6 fatalities related to boats, 5 were drownings 1 was listed as other. This is for the whole state.

Nationwide, 1469 collisions with other boats, 70 fatalities. Probability of a fatality from a collision with another vessel - 4% you should be much more worried about falling overboard - probability of death - 34%.

The arguement that you need to use only data from Winni just doesn't hold water, pun intended. There are probably not enough "events" for a reasonable statistical study of just Winni and if there were I would be willing to bet that the data would show it is safer to boat/kayak on Winni. than other comparable lakes. (Big reach here, but mild compared to some of the other "estimations" in these threads). NH is ahead of the curve with the boater education requirement, a valid requirement based on the STATISTICS. From the report:

�� Consistent with previous years, nearly 80% of all reported fatalities occurred on
boats where the operator had not received boating safety instruction (Page 19).

Trust me, had the stats in this report pointed to speeds above 45mph as a problem we would have seen this report pasted all over these posts.

I just don't see the need for a speed limit.

05-04-2005, 08:58 AM	#30
ITD Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Moultonboro, NH Posts: 2,928 Thanks: 476 Thanked 691 Times in 387 Posts	Boating Statistics 2003 from the US Coast Guard http://www.uscgboating.org/statistic...stics_2003.pdf Categories in the accident column Canoe/Kayak also Rowboats, pontoon boat, Sail only, inflatable, among others, all nicely spelled out. More people died in Canoe/Kayak than PWC, interesting, flies directly in the face of comments by the anti-PWC crowd. Just an interesting point that I would not have suspected had I not looked. In 2003 in New Hampshire there were 6 fatalities related to boats, 5 were drownings 1 was listed as other. This is for the whole state. Nationwide, 1469 collisions with other boats, 70 fatalities. Probability of a fatality from a collision with another vessel - 4% you should be much more worried about falling overboard - probability of death - 34%. The arguement that you need to use only data from Winni just doesn't hold water, pun intended. There are probably not enough "events" for a reasonable statistical study of just Winni and if there were I would be willing to bet that the data would show it is safer to boat/kayak on Winni. than other comparable lakes. (Big reach here, but mild compared to some of the other "estimations" in these threads). NH is ahead of the curve with the boater education requirement, a valid requirement based on the STATISTICS. From the report: �� Consistent with previous years, nearly 80% of all reported fatalities occurred on boats where the operator had not received boating safety instruction (Page 19). Trust me, had the stats in this report pointed to speeds above 45mph as a problem we would have seen this report pasted all over these posts. I just don't see the need for a speed limit.