Capt. JG wrote:

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:59:29 -0700, richforman said:


At any rate, of course in any
segment of boaters (not just pwc's) we could come up with lots of
recent stories of people hurting and killing themselves and others by
doing stupid dangerous irresponsible things and not knowing how to
conduct themselves on the water.

I think you can skip the evangelizing. The personal observations of each
of
us carries far more weight than your broken-record sales pitch ever will.



As an example, I was sailing last weekend in a fairly narrow channel with
three students aboard a 32'. I PWC cut us off, despite our arm waiving,
which he clearly saw. We had to release our sails and head up to avoid him.
After he crossed our path, he gave us the finger. Bummer for him, because
the Coasties saw the whole thing... they were sitting right there on the
edge of the channel. I guess he didn't see them until they pulled him over.
We gave them the thumbs up and kept going.


I was out sailing a few weeks back and saw a PWC dead in the water.

Well, it obviously didn't get there by itself so I headed over and
found a young girl (teen) in the water. She couldn't get back up
on the thing because she said she hurt her ankle when she fell off.

Her "boyfriend" who was "teaching" her was over a mile away.
Didn't see her go down, and still wasn't looking for her.

We sat there with her for 15 or 20 minutes tooting the horn until
he finally figured it out and came back for her.

Then he just circled telling her to get back on.
Her ankle was obviously badly swollen.

The boy took off full throttle back across the lake.

The girl putted slowly back to the dock.

A little while later the boy came racing back toward the docks.
Didn't throw us the finger, but he didn't look happy either.

I guess she spoiled all his fun.

For what ever it's worth.

Richard