Boating Accidents down in 2013

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Originally Posted by Billy Bob

All that course has done is reduce the number of vacationers that come to the lake. Especially folks from Massachusetts who are inconvenienced because their boating course isn't recognized. ( I'm not from Mass , My Florida course is recognized in NH )
Also , in Florida where we have had a large increase in tourism and boating this past year we have also had a decrease in accidents , and we DON'T require any boating certification.
The flaw is this is just another requirement that is driving away tourism.

Alienate the boaters / vacationers and reduce traffic = reduced accidents, I agree 100%. We have friends that can come stay with us for free but still find it too restrictive to do so. I can't imagine why people that have to rent a hotel to boat here would want to.