[Paddlewise] Pfds and new rules.

Here is the answer I sent Gary earlier today.

From:           	skimmer <skimmer_at_enter.net>
To:             	garyj_at_rogers.com, 
paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net
Subject:        	Re: [Paddlewise] Proposed new PFD 
use rules
Send reply to:  	skimmer_at_enter.net
Date sent:      	Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:17:47 4

Hi Gary,
I am just explaining why we are where we are. I am interested to 
see what folks think about the proposal. To this point, nothing has 
worked to get boaters to wear PFDs. I have provided the website 
and dates for folks to send public comment to PA Fish and Boat.
Their comments will not ever be made public by PA Fand B, 
however. It will be shouting into a vaccuum.

The basic nature of responses I have received so far is something 
like... "Too bad about those ignorant novices, It's just Darwin's laws 
at work, I refuse to be regulated, and it won't happen to me 
anyway."

Since folks seem to accept the requirement to have Pfds at least in 
the boat, and since they don't help anyone that has fallen out of the 
boat, I have been thinking about requiring just a picture of a Pfd in 
the boat (one pfd picture for each person in the boat). The value of 
a pfd in a boat to someone that has gone over the side is the same 
as owning one, but leaving it home in the garage.

Chuck Sutherland

Thanks,
Chuck Sutherland
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