Originally Posted by HTRDLNCN

Its this big dick syndrome..
Mine has to be bigger than yours..
So let me prove it by driving the biggest hunk of junk I can finance.
Then the next guy has to get a bigger one,
and so on and so on..
We have an 80ft sport fisherman (Bertram I think? ) on Travis,, talk about stupid to the bone, lets take a 1.5m boat designed for fishing 250lb Marlins on the open ocean and put it on a skinny land locked lake..

Originally Posted by Turbojack

Sitting out in the middle of Travis during the summer after dark is asking to get run over. I am supprised there has not been an acccident in the last few years. Last one I remember was a girl getting killed riding in a boat going from Cafe Blue to CNC when it got hit or hit another boat.

We can be sitting out on porch and you can hear the boats running hard going by.

Originally Posted by HTRDLNCN

The little girl was Ricks daughter, friend of mine and that is correct he was not drinking, his boat had been repaired incorrectly previously and a big cruiser wake cause the boat to actually seperate.

As for nighttime on Lake Travis there is a minimum plane law it just isnt enforced. We dont need more laws we just need the ones we have enforced. Like not letting jet skis and wakeboard boats run circles 5 ft in front of private docks and marinas, not let people run 70mph at night when law says minimum plane speed,not let people with big cruisers and houseboats having their 6 year old son driving ( i was almost run over (AT IDLE) by a moron letting his kid drive a 100ft houseboat WHILE towing another boat.. If it wasnt for my airhorn I would have been hit hard.Not let idiots in big cruisers run at maximum plow speed right by anchored boats and then look back and laugh at the mayhem their battlecruiser caused with its wake.. Not let blowboters anchor in the middle of the channel with no friggin anchor lights. Not let moron parents tow their kids tubing down the MIDDLE of the channel on the busiest days of the year. I could go on all day..

While booze doesnt help there are plenty of friggin morons out there totally sober.
Just finished a big conference
( TAMEST / The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas)
and one of the conclusions of the conference was the average American IS getting dumber with each generation. I already had assumed that but its nice to have actual evidence.

Originally Posted by 30ctsutphen

I think these rules apply every where.

basically people should have some Phu cking Brains !

People should give a crap about eachother and if they dont they should be shunned off the water in thier respective areas.

Years ago if someone acted like an azz hole the community would teach them a lesson/ shun them etc. People were worried more about thier standing in the community than anything else today we reward people with reality shows for acting like morons. Its no wonder we see it in everyday real lif

People have NO RESPECT or COMMON SENSE anymore.

Originally Posted by HTRDLNCN

I know down in Key Largo in th area where my cousin leaves if the cops see you on plane anywhere near a canal,dock,parked boat you WILL get stopped and ticketed, night or day, whether its a jetski or a cruise ship.