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WHO'S LIABLE IF I DO GET HIT?
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:52:22 -0700 (PDT), -hh
wrote: ComandanteBanana wrote: -hh wrote: KingOfTheApes wrote: Many people that are into motorboating are poorly educated and... Kind of an interesting self-contradiction you're making, by first talking about how these boats are huge and expensive, yet now they're owned by uneducated high school dropouts, which is a demographic with very low incomes... First of all, there are "lions" out there and "wannabes." Meaning there are many big yachts and cigarette boats owned by the filthy rich, and then crappy motorboats of all kinds ... It's a matter of STATUS. Just like cars. "Money to burn"=3DBig Yacht & SUV. "Survivor"=3Dold car and boat. Agreed, but this is hardly new news. Mahogany hulled Chris-Craft powerboats have been around since the 1920s, as well as efforts over the years to broaden the market base to the middle class; one can suggest that Boston Whaler contributed to this trend too, staring in the mid-1950s. But motorboat pollution contributes to "the soup" out there too... You sure that you're not smelling naturally occurring organics? Afterall, the ICW runs through a lot of muddy marshes and estuaries. I can tell the smell of gas. And you can see it floating all over the place. Maybe in a marina. Gas is a light aeromatic and disappears quite rapidly. If its not natural marsh stuff, its more likely to be diesel, which tends to be more of what larger working boats tend to use, not your generic commercial pleasure boat 30ft. And when a motorboats goes by, you can get some serious second hand smoke. While there's always going to be the occasional gross polluter, they generally are quite uncommon. Turbo-diesels will smoke when under heavy load, such as a 40 footer trying to get home on one engine. 0.04% incidence. =A0Yes, very 'startling'. =A0 You would have to boat for over 25 years just to get up to a 1% risk. I bet many of those registered boats don't even make it to the water (they look good parked on the driveway). Catch-22 alert: if these are your high risk "unskilled" boaters, if they're parked at home, they can't be a risk at sea. And the kayaks stay away from those motorboat highways, so the statistics may be misleading. Kayaks aren't a class of boat requiring registration, so the actual total numbers are higher, which means that the actual statistical risk is even lower. But your common sense tells you they are a real threat. More than terrorists, say. Common sense says that all parties should take responsibility for their decisions, which includes wandering out into harm's way when you suspect that there are operators of less than stellar skill levels present. Yes, it is "unfair", but life is unfair: you either deal with it and roll with the punches, or die from being too inflexible. -hh Totally untrue, if I spill gas while refueling. THe gas doc will surround the area with absorption material, and clean it up, I have to file an EPA report on how it happened, and how I will prevent it in the future |
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WHO'S LIABLE IF I DO GET HIT?
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:19:41 -0700 (PDT), KingOfTheApes
wrote: On Aug 23, 6:06 pm, "Lee Bell" wrote: Sometimes that law doesn't exist or is not enforced and they just follow the Law of the Jungle. If you talk about the channels their speeds are not terribly willd, but still you are a sitting duck. It exists everywhere you're ever likely to be in your kayak. There's more enforcement on the intracoastal, per boater, than in any city or state anywhere near here. Yes, you are a sitting duck, which is a really good reason not to go where you can't be safe. I presume you would not ride your bicycle on I-95, which would you ride you kayak in a zone where running on a plane is legal? Not only I wouldn't ride on a highway, I wouldn't even ride on the street right in front of my door. It's so bad that most people stay away from riding bikes on the road around here and rather ride the sidewalks... Of course, you ain't safe there either. Just today, as I was coming down on the sidewalk to cross this intersection, a car came blasting the horn at me because he felt every right to beat me to the corner. I had to use my brakes to the limit or else. That was a close call. And the guy kept going like nothing. I'm sure he knows we've got few rights --if any. Then you realize you live in the jungle. Welcome to the Jungle --if you dare. WHY THE BANANA REVOLUTION? http://webspwner.com/users/bananarevolution Sounds like you are suffering from "lack of sack" desease and whinning about it. Bycyles have as much right on our roadways as cars do, and have no right on the side walks. |
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A civilized society cannot let the law of the jungle rule its roads
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:51:35 -0700 (PDT), ComandanteBanana
wrote: 10 Cyclists Struck by a Taxi on the Causeway to Miami Beach http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=457751 "A civilized society cannot let the law of the jungle rule its roads; if we want to ensure fairness, government must act to protect the weak." And why should we protect the monkey, not the lion? Because then the lion will eat the monkey, stupid. And that keeps the other monkeys terrorized, which is not what we want. We want them to come out, right? Here's a smart comment on the subject... "The purpose of the police power is to protect public health, safety, and welfare. When it comes down to cars vs. bicycles, the latter need greater protection than the former -- after all, cars kill more Americans than guns do, whereas beds kill more Americans than bikes do. That's why places which truly embrace bicycling as a valid (and safe) mode of transportation have laws that aren't fair: bicycles get more rights than cars. In many northern European countries, the driver is always at fault in a bicycle-car crash. Some municipalities even completely exempt bicycles from many road regulations (like one-way traffic flow) -- since such regulations are often intended to regulate cars (in the one-way example, that street might be too narrow for two cars to pass but plenty wide for two bikes to pass). A civilized society cannot let the law of the jungle rule its roads; if we want to ensure fairness, government must act to protect the weak. The #1 reason that people cite for not bicycling more often is that they feel that biking is unsafe. It isn't, really -- in fact, not bicycling degrades your life expectancy more than bicycling -- but it can be made much safer through good policies, enforced fairly." Posted by PCC | June 25, 2008 8:30 PM http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.c..._hierarchy.php As are the laws here, hit a bycyclest here and you are in trouble. What happened to the cab driver ? |
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Why would anyone care unless they were planning to sue or something?
I've been kayaking all over the east coast, from Maine to the Everglades, and I find personal water craft far more irritating, hazardous, and likely to be in unskilled hands than any kind of smudgepot (power boat). |
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A civilized society cannot let the law of the jungle rule its roads
Here's a smart comment on the subject...
"The purpose of the police power is to protect public health, safety, and welfare. When it comes down to cars vs. bicycles, the latter need greater protection than the former -- after all, cars kill more Americans than guns do, whereas beds kill more Americans than bikes do. Smart except for being completely wrong. The purpose of the police power is to investigate, apprehend and bring criminals to the judicial portion of the American system. |
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Totally untrue, if I spill gas while refueling. THe gas doc will
surround the area with absorption material, and clean it up, I have to file an EPA report on how it happened, and how I will prevent it in the future The gas doc? What's a gas doc? Personally, I sprinkle some Dawn dishwashing detergent around. Presto, no more gas slick. Lee |
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Sounds like you are suffering from "lack of sack" desease and whinning
about it. Bycyles have as much right on our roadways as cars do, and have no right on the side walks. I believe that varies with location, but it's certainly true in many locations. Lee |
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Galen Hekhuis wrote
Why would anyone care unless they were planning to sue or something? I've been kayaking all over the east coast, from Maine to the Everglades, and I find personal water craft far more irritating, hazardous, and likely to be in unskilled hands than any kind of smudgepot (power boat). You hit that one right on the nose except, of course, for the smudgepot part. Lee |
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"Lee Bell" wrote:
Totally untrue, if I spill gas while refueling. THe gas doc will surround the area with absorption material, and clean it up, I have to file an EPA report on how it happened, and how I will prevent it in the future The gas doc? *What's a gas doc? Dock. It doesn't matter too much anyway, because now the discussion is shifting. It started as claims of pollution from normal running conditions that was observed along protected waters (eg, ICW), but this is talking about a semi-"point" source of pollution, namely a spill occurring at refueling stations. Personally, I sprinkle some Dawn dishwashing detergent around. *Presto, no more gas slick. Of course, another option when refueling, is to not spill so much fuel (such that the Sheen Rule is invoked, etc). And from a similar observation of human nature, a chronic spiller may very well get inconvenienced by the owner of the refueling station to report every spill no matter how small (ie, well below reporting threshold). We can all figure out the real reasons why. -hh |
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ComandanteBanana wrote:
"Lee Bell" wrote: You do know that, by putting a trolling motor on your kayak, you're classified as a power boat, right? Oh, give me a break. At worst I'd be a hybrid. Small, slow, noiseless and backed up by paddles. Irrelevant, since "The Law is The Law". At one point, my Canoe was registered as a 'powerboat'. And I recall that it was a bit of a nuisance to get it fit with letters of the required minimum height for its Registration#. Many people that are into motorboating are poorly educated and couldn't care less about the consequences of their actions. I think MOTORBOATING IS LARGELY FOR COUCH POTATOES THAT WANT TO HAVE A DEGREE OF ADVENTURE IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS. Yet, in the same post, you identified yourself as a power boater. But not a threat to anything. Except as a threat to navigation, when in the wrong place. My anchor weighs 1 1/2 lbs... Terrible threat to the reefs. It's almost exactly the same threat as mine. An anchor that sets and stays in place, does very little damage to anything and there's already a law requiring people to anchor in adjacent sand areas rather than on coral. Chain and line, on the other hand, can do quite a bit of damage, whether attached to a kayak or different kind of power boat. I'd look before I anchor to a reef, don't you? Oh, to always have the luxury of being able to look through perfectly clear water. How much you need for a motorboat? Which power boat? I have three and, as I've already mentioned, a kayak. Anchors for each boat is designed for the boat I use it with. My smallest power boat uses an anchor just like the one I use for the kayak. OK, why don't you get rid of the big ones? The proper sizing of an anchor is predicted on several factors, not just the size of the craft. But motorboat pollution contributes to "the soup" out there too. You can even smell the gas, and I doubt it that it would be safe to swim in the intracostal anymore. What you can smell is not harming the reefs. As for what you doubt, I suggest you learn a bit more before getting it wrong again. If you're talking about human waste by those on boats, I'm afraid you'll have to include kayakers in your list. It's legal for either of us to use the ocean as a bathroom. It is not legal for me to discharge my head directly overboard or to discharge my holding tank within coastal waters. The sewage outfalls in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties, on the other hand, pump millions of gallons of partially treated sewage and chemicals onto the reefs every day. Can the government ever be that bad? They claim they treat everything at Virginia Key... http://www.reef-rescue.org/research/keywestcitizenpage1.pdf http://www.reef-rescue.org/MiamiHerald/ Oceanisnoplacefortreatedsewage.pdf Here's their homepage; note the 'Donate' button: http://www.reef-rescue.org/ Do you do kayaking by any chance, or you just represent the motorboating association? Apparently, you find it utterly incomprehensible for there to be people who actually own both powered and unpowered watercraft, particularly when their perspectives and conclusions are at odds with yours. -hh |
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