[Evenstar]

Originally Posted by ITD

Categories in the accident column Canoe/Kayak also Rowboats, pontoon boat, Sail only, inflatable, among others, all nicely spelled out. More people died in Canoe/Kayak than PWC, interesting, flies directly in the face of comments by the anti-PWC crowd. Just an interesting point that I would not have suspected had I not looked.

So how many of these fatalities were white water rives? And how many of these fatalities were caused by a larger boat? This is also from the report, on page 6, under Executive Summary Boating Statistics – 2003:

- The most reported type of accident was a collision with another vessel.

- Overall, operator inattention, carelessness/reckless operation, operator inexperience, and excessive speed are the leading contributing factors of all reported accidents (Pages 7, 37).

- The most common types of boats involved in reported accidents were open motorboats (42%), personal watercraft (PWC) (27%) and cabin motorboats (14%)



I honestly had forgot that row boats and inflatables were in separate catagories. but there is only a single category for canoe/kayak, and this includes all lengths from ~7 to 18+ feet. They are not separated at all, but are just lumped together. And, as I stated in my previous reply; “there’s a huge difference between canoes, recreational kayaks, and sea kayaks, when it comes to seaworthiness.” And you keep leaving out the fact that this is for all types of water, not just lakes. The data is for boats on ponds and on rivers, including white water, where the larger boats don’t even go.

The arguement that you need to use only data from Winni just doesn't hold water, pun intended.

I never said that. What I actually wrote was; “To use the data objectively, you would have to use only boating accidents that occur on the larger lakes.”