As HB 847 is proposed, it will expire in two years so that makes it a trial or a test run. It starts on January 1, 2009, and it expires on January 1, 2011. It's not cast in concrete and being presented as a law that will be forever. It's a two year trial run. If passed, we give it a go for two years and then the legislature gets to reconsider it. If it does get passed then in two years the Marine Patrol will have that speed limit, enforcement experience for the legislature to consider.
Better to be safe, than to be sorry!
ps...my no gasoline, no annual registration needed, sailboat, is still for sale at a very reasonable price, so buy now(!) before I am forced to raise the selling price to accomodate high cost of gasoline! Methinks I will be very sorry I sold it.