Not arguing with anything that has been said, but as someone who was stopped and ticketed by the NH Marine patrol for a passenger literally having an ankle just over the bow rail in a bow rider, I think there is some middle ground to being "Fully Inside" the boat.
The notion that its ok the sit in any seat and have your arm out in the wind or waiving at another boater, but a wrist or ankle on and hanging over a bow rail is not legal is ridiculous to me.
And we are not talking about little children it was a full grown adult with their ankle straddling the rail and the foot outside the rail,,,
By comparison, you folks are talking about extreme situations of poor judgement.
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