Easticks28
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We've had compulsory registration on the Broads for many years, and on other inland waterways AFAIK. Hasn't been a problem.
Also 'Personal Water Craft ' are barred from The Norfolk Broads.
Jet Ski legislation on the way?
- Thread starter Babylon
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We've had compulsory registration on the Broads for many years, and on other inland waterways AFAIK. Hasn't been a problem.
Also 'Personal Water Craft ' are barred from The Norfolk Broads.
ashtead
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I suspect barring from the Solent would only be achieved if it could be shown they presented a danger to wildlife not humans.
TSB240
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BILL was due for a second reading in February.
Jet Skis (Licensing) - Tuesday 10 November 2020 - Hansard - UK Parliament.
Don't hold your breath.
Jet Skis (Licensing) - Tuesday 10 November 2020 - Hansard - UK Parliament.
Don't hold your breath.
Stemar
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Next time I'm out I'll find a dead seagull and present it as evidence of the danger. That should do it
dunedin
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No it would need to be a seahorse ...... or a unicorn?Next time I'm out I'll find a dead seagull and present it as evidence of the danger. That should do it
JumbleDuck
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I inherited a brand new one of those engines, complete with stern tube and prop. I sold it to a chap restoring an Amanda water scooter. I'm told the engines were also used in some small boats on the Thames.
JumbleDuck
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The same goes for a foiling Moth, a pair of waterskis or a parachute. Maybe people just find them fun?
Gary Fox
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It's the antisocial and reckless activities of the jetski riders (ok not every single one of them) which make them conspicuous. F/Moths, waterskiers and parachutists don't weave dangerously and deliberately at high speed amongst moorings and swimmers, barely in control, trying to splash and frighten people.
If the same genitally-challenged selfish retards did the same thing on large motorbikes in public parks and playgrounds, old bill would nick them and rightly so.
Babylon
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Unfortunately around here SO many bridleways have been torn to pieces by off-road 4x4s and trail-bikes. Farmers and villagers have got together to block them with fallen tree-trunks and large concrete obstructions... so the cretins just trash adjacent fields to bypass them!
oldgit
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THE JOINT PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT (LORD CHESHAM)
My Lords, it may be convenient if at this stage I give you Lordships the Government views on this Bill, and I do not think I need take up a great deal of your Lordships time in doing so. In short, and generally, we welcome this Bill as having a certain contribution to make to road safety; and naturally anything which is likely to make a contribution to road safety is to be welcomed. Having, I am quite frankly happy to say, a little more experience of motor cycling in my life than the noble Lord who so eloquently explained the Bill, I have often wondered whether his statement that themotor cycle jet ski. was a "dangerous beast" of itself was entirely correct, because I have often wondered whether it was not something to do with the chap on the top, which seems to me a very important element.
ROAD TRAFFIC (DRIVING OF MOTOR CYCLES) BILL
House of lords 1960
My Lords, it may be convenient if at this stage I give you Lordships the Government views on this Bill, and I do not think I need take up a great deal of your Lordships time in doing so. In short, and generally, we welcome this Bill as having a certain contribution to make to road safety; and naturally anything which is likely to make a contribution to road safety is to be welcomed. Having, I am quite frankly happy to say, a little more experience of motor cycling in my life than the noble Lord who so eloquently explained the Bill, I have often wondered whether his statement that the
ROAD TRAFFIC (DRIVING OF MOTOR CYCLES) BILL
House of lords 1960
mjcoon
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Too quiet to appeal to the sort of idiot we are complaining about...
Gary Fox
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Yes and motorbikes have a graduated test and licensing scheme, starting with compulsory basic training off the road, then engine size limits for a couple of years to build experience.
Motorbikes are intrinsically dangerous compared to other vehicles, and attract a certain sort of user. This is also true of Personal Wa**er Craft.
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And are they prepared for the consequences, i.e. losing their house or farm, when a legitimate user is seriously injured as a result of their vigilantism?
V1701
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There are places where you can hire jetskis, presumably with no requirements whatsoever other than handing over some cash. That's just asking for trouble...
Keith 66
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Imagine how many seahorses get sucked & minced in their impellers........
mjcoon
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I don't think the obstructions are dropped in front of the moving trespassers...
mjcoon
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Oh, yes, seahorses are so daft as to float about at the surface, where the gulls, etc, are waiting? What nonsense!
Scotsailor
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I ride a motorcycle. Please elaborate as to what sort of person you think I am
JumbleDuck
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JumbleDuck
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Judging from every group of bikers I have seen, a retired chartered accountant. Am I right?