Why would anyone care unless they were planning to sue or something?
I've been kayaking all over the east coast, from Maine to the
Everglades, and I find personal water craft far more irritating,
hazardous, and likely to be in unskilled hands than any kind of
smudgepot (power boat).

Galen Hekhuis wrote

> Why would anyone care unless they were planning to sue or something?
> I've been kayaking all over the east coast, from Maine to the
> Everglades, and I find personal water craft far more irritating,
> hazardous, and likely to be in unskilled hands than any kind of
> smudgepot (power boat).

You hit that one right on the nose except, of course, for the smudgepot 
part.

Lee