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Originally Posted by caloway
45 is no magic number any more than 65 is on the highway. Reasonable people, however, wouldn't argue that we shouldn't have highway speed limits because 66 is almost always as safe as 65.
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I'd think you'd find a number of German drivers who would argue otherwise ... and have the data to back it up. That said, nobody would argue that a road running next to an unfenced schoolyard should be posted at 65 ... or even 45 (assuming school is in). And therein lies the rub. There is no 1 magic number/limit for all places on the lake and for all times. And the limits we do have presently don't have any firm backing from analysis or statistics. I think there is a limit to how fast a boat can go, even under favorable conditions, above which it becomes a danger to somene lying in it's path. But 45 isn't anywhere near close to it. Alas it doesn't seem that either side wanted to think to hard about the other guys viewpoint.