On Jun 22, 4:25*pm, "Canuck57" wrote:
"Don White" wrote in message

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"JimH" wrote in message
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On Jun 20, 10:16 am, GDSmith wrote:
sigh

I should have known better than to post something relating to boating
here.


I wouldn't worry about it too much - there are ignorant people
everywhere.

I'd like to thank you for posting the note - my brother lives just off
Lake Erie on the other side of Cleveland and we've taken our boat up
there for several lake runs - always a good time. It just surprises
me that people go out running that late at night (approx 12:30 am),
presumably above 20mph, with MINIMAL lighting on the boat. I'm sorry
that this resulted in a loss of life, but I can't imagine running
around in those conditions - even if there was a (near) full moon on
Monday.

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GDSmith
Harpers Ferry, WV

2003 Baja 242 Islanderhttp://ICanHelp56.homestead.com/Baja001.html

I was talking with one of the owners of our marina yesterday and this
accident came up. *I then brought up another fatal accident several
years back also involving a cigarette boat hitting another boat at a
high rate of speed.

He told me that the man who was killed was a docker at his marina. *He
had just graduated from college with high honors and his parent
purchased him the 29 foot boat as a graduation gift. *They went out on
the boat for the first time when a man from Leamington, Canada plowed
his 38 foot boat at 50 mph into the young mans boat.

The accident occurred in broad daylight.

http://justice.org/homepage/boat1008.aspx

http://www-catalog.cpl.org/CLENIX/ACT-4248

At least the drunk operator received some jail time. *If the event had
occured up here, he may have gotten house arrest.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia...ackay-sentence...

Also cost him 4.1M.

Part of his sentence should have been pulling his drivers license and never
to drive a boat again. *I remember reading something they are starting to do
this in Canada where if you are intoxicated, they treat it just like DWI.
Good deal.

A cheap price to pay for taking the life of a 'top of his class' young
man.