Re: [Paddlewise] Costco selling kayaks

>
>Irresponsible boaters scare the pants off me. Just within this week, the
>following: (1)A prominent local boater was bragging to me recently about
the
>new GPS-controlled navigation system on his power boat. He can set the
thing
>and then go below and fix drinks, or prepare lunch Doesn't even have to
look
>where he's going. Wonderful.....
        A few years ago exactly this happened in NJ!  Someone set his LORAN
to retrace his route out then proceeded to make drinks (lots) for everyone
on board.  At night.  Crashed straight into the channel jetty.
>
>There's a tendency to think that those of us who have more education and/or
>more financial reserves are also more intelligent and more responsible.
That's
>a dangerous generality. Plenty of irresponsible people have plenty of money
to
>spend. Plenty of thoughtless people have advanced degrees in one thing or
>another. Plenty of folks with very limited means are more intelligent and
more
>thoughful than those with PhD or CEO after their names.

        I've noticed this.  On the one hand many people think that paddling
a boat is an instinctive skill so they never think ahead.  On the other,
this litigious society of ours removes any sense of responsibility from
ourselves.  For that reason also, people might not think ahead.  Given a
likely assertive personality as PhD or CEO and maybe that's facilitated.



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