In article .com,
wrote:
Unfortunately, there are still a high
percentage of morons out there that continue to contribute to the
image of jet-skiers as clueless fools or dangerous assholes.

Keep at it though... keep at it.

(Alright, I changed my mind, I will "take the bait" to an extent)

Keep at it? I intend to, and I have been "at it" for years now...
by "it" I mean trying to educate people about pwc's, who uses them, and

And, I have no problem with that, and I'm glad you're doing
it. There's a lot of work to do! (NOT A DIG ... jeez, now I'm editing
myself for a jet-skier!)

in this thread. So this makes me very confident that my efforts on
behalf of myself and my fellow pwc'ers has been pretty successful in
fighting prejucide ad stereortypes....

Not quite enough... suggestion... how about educating the ones who are
still on the water with the noisy, pollution machines. According to
your own words, those people are the ones giving your group a bad
name.

and most importantly, most of the national park bans that were
temporarily enacted a few years back, have been rolled back or
eliminated as the scientific evidence from the mandated environmental
impact studies, plus of course public opinion on the matter, has rolled
in, including two local areas, Fire Island National Seashore and
Gateway National Park, have been largely rolled back and just replaced
with some milder restrictions....so again I know my continuing efforts,
and those of many others, to educate people and fight for our own
rights, have met with some degree of success, and I certainly plan to
as you say "keep at it."

If it is shown that jet-skier are not damaging the physical environment nor
disturbing the quiet enjoyment of others, I have no problem with them
on public waterways.

If you consider me your enemy and hope I fail in my efforts, well, then
I guess that's the way it is, hopefully you're going to meetings too
and arguing for increased pwc bans, that's your right. But really

I only argue for what makes sense. You think I'm the enemy because of
my first-hand experience with jet skies. That's your right.

having heard from me, I would think that you would actually afford me
some respect, "j.," based on my being obviously a fairly educated,
informed, passionate, serious and very active fellow boater. You seem

I certainly afford you "some" respect.

to want to position me in an opposing camp from you because you have
had negative experiences with other pwc'ers before, but the way I see
it, we are really on the same side and in the same boat, as it were.

I'm not putting you in any camp. I'm telling you what my experience
has been from the time the jet ski first arrived. If things get
better, as you claim they are, then that's just peachy!

You should want me and every other safe, competent, educated,
responsible boater to have access to the public waterways, just as
surely as you want every unsafe, dangerous, idiotic boater off the
water.

The problem is that there is a huge prejudice against jet skiers. A
couple of posts on usenet are not going to change that. What will
change that is observable evidence by more and more people.

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"j" ganz @@
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