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Originally Posted by chipj29
Last week after work, I was on my PWC heading in a southwest direction. This was one of the bright, sunny days, no clouds or haze. Anyway, there was a real strong glare, and I could see 3 kayakers in the middle of the river pretty far away. As I got closer, they almost disappeared from my sight. Obviously I changed course and slowed down. I was never close at all, but was surprised at how hard they were to see. One was even in a yellow kayak, the other two were red. Had I not been paying attention way down river, I would have come up on them pretty fast.
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And I think you've demonstrated GI's point (above). The kayak was there to be seen before the ski-boat presumably lost it in the glare. How long would you continue to run at the same course and speed into such glare ? Obviously given the above, "Not long" is the (correct) answer. You were paying attention and so the ski-boat operator should have been as well.