richforman wrote:

On Jun 15, 10:37 am, Wayne.B wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:11:41
wrote:


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.

My statement above that you quoted is true.

I think the obversation that 97% of PWC operators give the rest a bad
reputation is absolutely true.


Well that was more of an admittedly funny line rather than a true
statement like mine was

Well I've ridden pwc's with six other riders in the last week or so,
two of us covered about 340 miles over this last weekend; any way,
none of the seven of us had any problems or conflicts of any kind with
any of our fellow boaters
on the last few rides, for what that's worth, if anything. We idled
through no-wake zones, gave
fishermen and everybody else wide berths, got stopped and checked by
state police and coast
guard officers who seemed impressed with our level of preparedness and
knowledgeability and treated
us with respect and friendliness as did all other fellow water-lovers
we encountered on these trips. On Saturday,
my friend and I rode from Jones Beach Inlet on Long Island, right
across the ocean to Barnegat Inlet where
we met another friend, a doctor who had just bought his new 'ski the
day before, the three of us rode the
backwaters of the bay to the Cape May Inlet and then back to Tom's
River where we overnighted before
riding back to L.I. early Sunday morning.....we spent the two days
just seeing sights (we were happy to see about a half-dozen dolphins
frollicking in the ocean near Seaside Heights), enjoying the sun,
swimming
and exploring, stops on beaches and the fun of cruising around, and
defnitely not conforming to some of you fellas' ideas about who
pwc'ers are or what we do. I guess myself and all the people I
ride with are in the 3% of good ones, or maybe that percentage is not
really accurate.

richforman

Well, like 84% of statistics, it was made up on the spot. ;-)

You know how it is; a few bad apples can spoil it for the whole bunch.
The bad ones are the ones that tend to stick in peoples' minds. Or
maybe y'all really are in the 3%. ;-)

Either way, keep up the good work.

DT