Roger Long wrote:
wrote
Your premise is wrong. Boating is far easier to do safely than
flying.
....
The boating I was doing last summer, essentially single handing a 32
foot sailboat around a busy commercial harbor, ...
offered for more opportunities to hurt or kill someone than .. flying ...
in good weather in a simple airplane). ...

No, it didn't. If you'd had a fit or a heart attack or gone blind
while handling your boat you might have done a little property damage
but would have stood a good chance of getting medical attention and
living and it's unlikely that anyone else would have been seriously
endangered. A disabled pilot can not be evacuated from an airborne
plane and the plane has a great deal of potential energy (height and
fuel) and it is certain to impact the earth causing significant damage
to itself and endangering anyone in the area.

-- Tom.