FJ,
Please inform me and everyone of the compromises brought to NHRBA. I have never met with anyone from winnfabs (except for Rusty and that was just an intro), the hearings where the first time I even put a face to some of the names I heard. I had some random communications with one of Winnfab's more extremists, but in no way was it some constructive attempt to compromise and I have all the emails saved to prove it. I would have expected a call or a meeting from Sandra or someone else of logical authority. I was invited to a Winnfabs meeting and after personal attacks against me, I discussed it with our members and decided not to.
Below is my response to that individual (dated 4/23/2005)
"Your explaination of winnfabs helps and I conclude that I cannot support nor do I wish to communicate with them. My reasons are simple, I don't wish to be linked to a secret society with its only purpose to push the speed limit through. That's not my intention with nhrba and will only damage its reputation. So what if the speed limit passes, and the next year a falatility happens when the boater was going 35. Where will winnfabs be then? Well nhrba goals will be to accept any passed laws but continue to make boating safer. So I'm in for the long haul and making an association with winnfabs is not in nhrba's best interest."
So don't start with false accusations against me, I have already had false accusations of me before. After a quick phone with Meredith's police chief, it got cleared up pretty fast.
And I really get discouraged when individuals as yourself, state one thing as FACT and in the next sentence you write "what I've heard". If you don't know, which you obviously don't, please save us the annoyance and not post it.
Custie
I have the facts if anybody wants to know them, so please go ahead and contact me at
custie@nhrba.com