[VtSteve]

Originally Posted by Acres per Second

But this won't be "a victory": perhaps I can convince you of that.

1) Tuesday, a rental boat pulled up next door. It had five men aboard—all in "Island Maintenance" tee-shirts. Wouldn't "in-water training" pose a costly and unnecessary impediment to Winnipesaukee's maintenance businesses?

(Especially as more than one member of an "Island Maintenance" boating crew should be tested and qualified).

2) When just one day of renting is very costly, does no renter get a "free pass" in such changeable weather as we have here?


Yes, it is!

We're into our second day of a cold and drizzly rain, and tomorrow looks no better —how does "in-water-testing" work for that five-man crew in their rental boat?

Use the system they have in the UK—demonstrate one's total "in-water" competence—easy, peasy.

Perhaps they just need to call you APS, and you can give the people you want a pass. Everyone else needs to begin a lengthy certification process, and learn how to sail. There has been "organized resistance" Against many things. Rafting, speeds over 45 mph, mandatory certificates for all boaters, tougher requirements for testing, more enforcement money. You name it. The vast majority of that opposition came from those safety-minded folks that brought you the SL

Now you, the ultimate authority on speeds and boating behavior, not to mention noise, want to give a pass to those you want to, but make other not only have on water instruction, but learn how to sail? There's just no end to your need for preferential treatment is there?