I think when polls are taken their should be explanations for why we vote the way we do. What are we thinking when we vote. If and that is a big if the people that operate boats would follow the rules that already exsist then their would be no need of this HB 162. I love making my boat go fast. 32 MPH is plenty for me. yet the speed of a boat has all to do with the size of the boat, the knowledge and common sense of the operator. In 1959 my dad built me my own first boat, it was 6' long and had a 6 hp Elgin on it. Now a 16' lyman with a 35 could not keep up with it.
The problem is not with the MPH a boat does, but with how the operator uses it. Their is also the problem with inforcement of the law. And who is breaking the law with the MP looking at you.
Boaters education was a start, but what is needed more is common sense, and how do you teach that. I consider myself to be an above average boat handler, But doing 25 mph (really fast) I got thrown out of the drivers seat last summer, it scared me and I am thankful that I was more than 150' from anyone. It was the waves that caused that problem and I should have been paying closer attention to them waves when their was no other boat nearby
Get them boats out their doing better than 45 mph and have a storm come up. Maybe they will get back to port faster but at what expense.
If you could legislate common sense then open the speed limit up.
