"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.

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