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	Name:	LittleKowaliga -
	Subject:	Boating Law Update
	Date:	3/11/2006 5:54:54 PM

I expect that people's feelings on this bill depends entirely on whether they own, sell fuel to, or lease slip space to oversized, overpowered boats. I can appreciate that someone with a $100k Fountain with twin 500s sitting at their dock or at your marina won't like this bill. That doesn't make it a bad bill. Those boats are designed for open water, not an inland lake. If you don't think the wakes from those boats doesn't intrude on other peoples rights, I invite you to come by and stand on my seawall as the water splashes over it and watch my floating dock get thrown around after a Fountain roars up little Kowaliga Creek.

When a kid on a jet ski gets obliterated by one of these boats going 80 mph, we'll all wonder why a law like this hasn't already been passed.

As for cabin cruisers on a lake, as long as they stay in the big bays and don't dump their sewage they don't bother me, but there is no way to police that.

I for one would rather not be anymore like Lake Lanier than we already are.

Now all you Fountain and Formula owners can fire away.