I have to say I completely agree with Craig. Paddling on the Hudson is dangerous enough without the Boat House providing the means for people to commit suicide. If we were a bike club located near an interstate highway and inexperienced riders were permitted to use our bikes, we have rules that said 1) Helmets must be used when using our facilities. 2) Lights must be used at night. 3) Our facilities cannot be used unless participants agree to behave safely and agree not to ride their bikes in traffic on the highway. I wonder if the Boat House community is itself not being responsible by facilitating irresponsible boating behavior. I'm not a big law and order guy (I'm the one who got a Coast Guard ticket for paddling on the Hudson when Castro was in town...) but rules CAN save lives. I personally think we are waiting for a disaster to happen, and when it does, we will be faced with the difficult question of, why, WHY didn't we deal with the issue when we knew it was problem (like now). Dan Arshack *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Nov 03 1999 - 10:18:04 PST
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