Question for speed limit supporters

[BroadHopper]

I have to agree with NHBOUY. If my gfbl was very dangerous, I would be paying more than $110 a year on boat insurance. In fact my best friend has one of those family bowriders and he is paying $700 a year. I wonder why the insurance industry consider a bow rider more of a risk than my LS?

I avoid the weekends during prime season and enjoy the weekdays. Off season is the best for weekend boating. September is the best time of the year to boat. Seems like when the kids are back to school, the 'cowboys' are gone!

[Grandpa Redneck]

Last season, on a smaller lake with a Camp on it up here in the White Mountains, Myself Grandma Redneck and the the family were anchored in a small shallow cove. The kids, grandkids, and I were playing in the water, Grandma was off 50-75 feet away wading and drownin' worms. We heard a bunch of hollarin' and looked up and a fleet of canoes and kayaks were heading out from the camp, eventually they were followed by a councilor in a motor boat. They headed directly across the lake toward us. Some of these hooligans were "racing" and hitting each other with paddles, as they approached they were not paying any attention to where they were going, the lead 2 craft, a conoe with 3, and a double kayak almost broad sided us as they were too busy hitting each other and hollarin' to pay attention to what was right in front of them, the canoe managed to slip between our bow and the shore, without hitting us the, kayak scraped across the bow. without a word of appology. A second canoe paddled directly over Grandmas fishing line between her and her bobber, again no appology or even any greeting.
When they got out of their boats they started running around splashing in the water throwing balls, frisbees, rocks and sticks, almost hitting our 1 year old grand daughter in a floaty.
By then the " councilor" arrived and made no effort to reign in the out of control mob. We loaded up and asked the councilor to have the kids move out from behind the boat so we could leave. He spoke to them, some listened some didn't, and he turned and walked into the woods. We told the kids to please move out of the way, they finally did, after we asked 3 times. We left and went for a cruise around the lake and did some fishing.
Later we returned to the cove when it was empty again, there were large rocks all over the bottom, and branches, small trees, and other debris that had been on the shore line floating in the water. We cleaned up their mess.
When we spoke to the Camp management about the issue they said " Our campers would never do that".
The camp also has 2 ski boats, and tube, knee board the kids and some of the councilors wake board and ski. A second camp also has a ski boat.
and they quite often break the 150 foot rule.

Maybe we should ban camps with stupid councilors and disrespectful hooligan children.