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Originally Posted by rick35
I have an orange kayak, wear an orange pfd and have reflectors on my paddles and I still almost got run over a few years ago. In that case the boat driver was looking aft watching his skier. It wasn't until I blew my whistle that he turned away. If I had been rowing I never would have seen him and he probably would have run over me.
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You don't have to be rowing (while facing aft). Devices are available to enable rowing while facing forward.
https://www.frontrower.com/
But the same hazard exists. Facing forward doesn't protect you from being run over by an inattentive boater. Every US boater is still required to maintain a proper watch and adjust speed for conditions.
https://www.boat-ed.com/florida/stud...0101002_30085/
In New Hampshire, also to keep 150-feet from shore, swimmers, rafts, floats and other boats--whether moving or stationary.
Requiring NH vendors of PFDs to have NH-specific rules printed on PFD backs would direct boat operators' ["drivers"] attention to
those rules--especially when youngsters are wearing them--as required by present rules. (e.g., 50-feet rules, licensure rules, children's PFD rules, speed-limit rules, rafting rules, spotter rules).
Boat-rental businesses, among "vendors", would also be included under these provisions.
Not far from Tuftonboro Road is a rack with several rowing shells; oftentimes, under calm conditions, rowers are out on Winter Harbor rowing their light, but fragile, shells.
How long before rowing shells go the way of canoes on Lake Winnipesaukee?
