...still...
Your primary objection was his "fleeing the NHMP". (An easy charge to beat, especially when your noisy boat is a 130-MPH
Outer-Limits ocean-racer).
There's one group that regards "risk" so dismissively that—in their own minds—
alcohol doesn't increase their own personal risk at all. 
Sadly, they only wake up
after impacting the lives of others.
Who cares about all those lesser boats, going who-knows-where?
It's no insinuation to see you've "cherry-picked" USCG regulations, so we're not burdened here with having to review the dangers over-sized boats pose to so many others on this inland lake—with its 253 scattered islands.
Your link didn't include OCD, who I consider one of your little, but noisy, group—
anyway. 
I've built three wood boats—and owned four.
With every turn of a brass screw and the driving of every bronze boat nail, you watch as the curves come together and eventually you refer to your wood boat as "her" or "she".
Nobody respects life on the water more than someone who has blood, skin and sweat in the varnishing, inspecting, repair and painting of the wood boat they have built themselves.
But on the lake, there are too few who can say that today—with their boats and credit—in this "Age of Plastic".
I think you meant to write
ridiculous. 
Sorry...
...We had no idea your group was so important.