[Evenstar]

Originally Posted by WolfieBayer

A speed limit on the lake will not make you safer. Maybe a bicycle flag on your Kayak would help instead.

My kayak is bright red on top with a white hull. And I wear a red PFD.
I usually kayak with a friend of mine, who has the same boat in yellow/white. Together, this combination is very visible in almost any condition.

A bicycle flag sticking out of the water isn't really going to make us much more visible. And it would act like a sail in winds, making it very difficult to keep my kayak from tipping over in any cross winds. Plus it would make self rescues and rolls impossible. These are narrow sea kayaks, not wide recreational kayaks. You have to be able to put this type of kayak on edge, just to steer it - which would be nearly impossible with a flag catching the wind.

The fact is that the only boats that ever seem to have any trouble seeing us are the ones moving at the higher speeds.

I kayak on Squam all the time. Squam has a speed limit. Squam is a safer lake for kayaks and canoes because of its speed limit. Slowing down high speed boats will make any lake safer. This isn't exactly rocket science.