Re: GPS is not Radar
1) Your point about a faster, bigger, 100 MPH, turbine-powered bass boat would best be directed to "Fishermen's Friend", who wrote:
"Thanks for letting me vent, but we all know 99% of the problem is the bigger boats that get bigger and faster on the lake every year."
2) One opinion expressed previously (GPS is not radar), suggested that bass boaters are reckless in fog.
3) Another countered that bass boaters are wreckless.
As long as bass boats travel early in the morning -- and in the same general direction -- bass boats will have a better collision record than, say, offshore racers, which travel day and night and all over and every whichway. (Like "Ouch!!" did)
As to bass boats, I don't know how many are "other" powered, but the vast majority seen off my Winnipesaukee dock are equipped with powerful outboards -- some white, some black. Lots of big, black ones (up to 300HP).
Likewise, those seen off my Florida dock are big and black (but run smaller, 150HP or greater).
Three hundred and sixty-five (365) days a year of watching (and hearing) bass boats...permits expertise denied others.
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