Rich, one doesn't learn how PWC operators behave from a propaganda sheet. He
learns it from being out a boat each weekend and observing them.


wrote:
Seems like a weak argument unless you can dispute any of my facts or
sources.

WHAT???

You are genuinely claiming that links on the internet should
trump real world observations?


.... Just dismissing everything that doesn't support your
"observations" as automatically being simply "propoganda" isn't very
compelling.


I don't think anybody has "dismissed everything," just
weighed your claims against their own real-world experience.


Once again (and you just keep ignoring me) - specifically -

Is this article propoganda, or fiction? Is BoatUS an organization with
a pro-PWC bias?


http://www.shawnalladio.com/pwc/pwcD...pwc_detail=205


As far as I see, this is an unabashedly pro-PWC feel-good
article... do you think the title "This Is Not Your Father's
Jetski" indicates serious journalism? And the quotes from a
Kawasaki rep?



If you observed ME and all the people I ride with all the time, you'd
be confronted with the realization that your preconceptions and
prejudices are misinformed, outdated, based on a limited sample, and
simply don't tell anywhere near the story.

So, I guess if we observed that you and your buddies don't
buzz anchored boats, jump wakes dangerously close to vessels
underway, play chicken with swimmers, harrass sailboats, etc
etc, then we'd just forget about every time we observed a
larger number of jetskiiers doing those exact things?

That sure makes a lot of sense.

Actually, I'm sure there are a number of PWCers who use
their boats decently and interact with other boaters just
fine. But there are a lot that don't; and frankly the image
of blasting around the waterway not giving a damn is part of
what sells PWCs in the first place.

DSK