Jasper Windvane wrote:
Let me see if I have this right ;;; you think the government should require
us to get a license to sail our boats.

The same government that can't control the borders, that allows illegal
tresspassing into our county by people from some **** ass crap hole like
Mexico.

That government is now going to tell us how to sail our boats!

F..k this ,,,, New Jersey is a ********. A corrupt ********.

Anyone who thinks that sailors need licenses it NUTS! F'king NUTS.

You need to go back up in that airplane. This time bring some oxygen with
you.


What is the downside of this? I'm all for it. (Well like you say, you
don't know how effectively it can possibly be enforced, but the idea is
still good.) Us PWC'ers have been the first segment of boating to be
subject to mandatory education requirements over the last five or six
years or so, we have been all for it from the beginning, and you should
track the statistics about how boating and pwc accidents and injuries
have declined in states that have instituted these kind of laws. Seems
like a no-brainer to me that one should be trained and licensed to
drive a boat just like for a car. Too easy for people to hop onto a
boat a make trouble for themselves and others without any knowledge of
the laws, safety procedures, anything. Less so for sailboats maybe
because they require more skills, experience, and training just to
operatie in the first place, but that doesn't mean they should be
arbitrarily exempted - in fact, it seems to me that it would suggest
that it's not really any additional burden for sailors because they're
probably getting educated and trained before they hit the water anyway.

richforman