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Originally Posted by SAMIAM
A powerboat,even at 45mph would probably go right through a sailboat or, at the very least,be so horrific as to cause serious injury or death to the occupants. I can't imagine the result if this boat was truly "speeding" as Mr. Carsen says.
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This is a great point. Imagine the death and destruction if this power boat had been going say 90, as 9% of NH's citizen feel is ok? At that speed, the operator's reaction time would have been the same as at 45, but his stopping distance
and the distance he would have traveled during that reaction time would have
both been doubled, his impact force would have been quadrupled, his kinetic energy (the killer) would have been quadrupled, and the victim would not have had to worry about heading off to Maine for safe sailing. In fact, we would probably still be finding little chunks of him and his boat floating around the lake.
And because the victim here was a slow-moving sailboat, the Glendale and Coast Guard statistics would list this as a "sail boating" accident at "slow speed", and there would be
no record of a "speed-related accident" anywhere.