ossipeeboater, let me try and be more specific. I’m not a boater so I’ll stay away from using terms that I don’t understand. My issue this week has been with "boats" (motorized means of transportation traveling on water) that were well within 600' of my beach making waves/wakes/tsunami's that caused water to wash over my little beach, my kids, wife and me. My words were “go fast crowd”, not “go fast boats”.
I was opposed to hb162 because I personally detest any law that takes away from personal freedoms. However, if this weeks behavior is the norm that some of the hb162 supporters deal with, then I can see there reasoning for supporting the bill. If I were a boater I would be concerned that behavior like this past weekends could lead to another speed limit bill.
HOWEVER, I’m not trying to restart the speed limit debate by any means. I think Dave R hit the nail on the head in another topic when he said that your observations from this weekend depended on where you live. I’ve never had issues with wakes when the lake is at normal levels, other people do. It would be great if we could cut the lake up into “regions” with different requirements (this half is a NWZ, that quarter has a speed limit, this sections wide open racetrack), but that’s not practical for every square inch of the lake.
So I’m back to a potato and paint ball guns.
