Jet ski-ing Dangers

Re: PWC Dangers..

I take your point re. setting mantraps which is always illegal. As I said earlier the "deterrence device" should be clearly visible.

I visualise the scenario more as follows. I am quietly sitting in my boat at anchor. Some (rhymes with anchor) roars past my stern so close that he picks up my fishing line which damages his machinery. Is this my fault?

BTW did I mention the mackerel hooks? My proposed gadget is multi-purpose /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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I hate to spoil the fun but if I was going past in my tender or finding myself very close by if sailing off a mooring, or sailing up to drop an anchor then drop back then I wouldn't appreciate a floating line of any kind.

You'd catch everyone if they're near, regardless of their speed and you'd only be protecting yourself for a short distance, and down-current only. Oh, and losing control could be lethal to anyone at speed, including the occupants of the boat that's laid the trap.
 
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Ok.
Why your "consideration of practical ways of preventing this makes me angry" is because it is so stupid and dangerous.

There are going to be 2 possibilities with this.
1/ You set the trap while at anchor
2/ You set the trap while underway

1/ While at anchor, anyone could have legitimate reason to pass close to your boat (not neccessarily at speed)
Tender journey to shore. Trolling through the anchorage to to anchor up. Manouvering out of anchorage etc:

If I was trolling through, I would be on the lookout for other boats and watching where I was going, not looking for traps.


2/ If underway your trap could have become detatched for quite a while before you notice it, then how would you find it? would you bother to look?

If you wanted to keep people off your stern, why not trail your dinghy on a long painter (you did say you were looking for a practicle deterrent, and a dinghy is more visible than a half invisible, half submerged trap) Look at speed cameras, they are a deterrent because people see them and slow down.
Something as invisible as your proposed trap is no deterrent, it is simply a trap and that makes it devious, let alone dangerous.



If you ever try it, I hope no one but you suffers as a result.
 
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As for training and licensing - why should one tiny sector of hooliganistic behaviour on the water cause all of us the cost and trouble of having to license ourselves and our boats? For that is the inevitable outcome of all this.

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We all agree here, further laws, restrictions etc won't make any difference - the existing laws should deal with all problem waterusers regardless of what craft they are on, and if the current laws are not being used, why would we expect new requirements to be enforced?

Thanks to everyone who has come over to PWCForums to say hello BTW! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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