It is too much to hope that, now ANY captain will think twice before consuming any alcohol or other impairing substance when on the water. Temping as it might be, I will not have a drink or drinks and pilot my boat around the lake. I cannot understand why a boater can openly drink and pilot a boat around legally with a beer in his hand, while this is illegal on our roads. Many people fail to see the 'operating a potentially fatal multi-ton vehicle with no brakes' aspect of boating. ........Just fun and games when on the water.
Most of us has seen groups of people at the sandbars consuming drink after drink, and then go blasting across the lake. I worry less about them and more about the responsible boating family they are about to plow into.
Most of the drinkers, I fear, will shrug this off as, poor bastard, it won't happen to me.
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