proposed Breathalyser for yachtsmen

[Guest]

"If it isn't broken don't fix it" This should be the motto as It is not our British way to meekly accept bureaucratic decisions for the sake of a blanket policy easy to understand by amatuer politicians. (unlike the continental citizen who is used to accept such high handed government) If our goverment understood this they would definitly recognise a huge potential body of the public they can possibly alienate. We British still at heart, cherish our freedoms and thus distrust bureaucracy much more than our continental cousins. If the poor overworked police have to enforce this at a later date when the law is in place there will be another reason for the public to dislike them which is so against our traditions. Lets tell our smart ass political managers to not mess with us for no good reason. Sincerely, Mike Earnshaw

 

[Guest]

Perhaps they have "good reason" and they just haven't told us! Like much legislation over the last 10 years or so, e.g. the Small Commercial Vessels Code of Practice, I believe this has been born out of the Marchioness disaster but nobody will actually say.

 

[Guest]

Right on, Man

Take to the streets, brothers, for the right to drive your boat when paralytic! Good campaign, best of luck with it!

 

[Guest]

That\'a a bit like "Castrate all males at birth - they are potential rapists!!!....Get Real...nm

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[Guest]

You obviously have not had your boat rammed by some pillock that has drunk to much

 

[Guest]

Seems real enough to me...

...what are we all so upset about? How many cops do you know that would willingly get into a boat and go looking for people who are behaving in a manner not likely to cause loss of life or limb clutching a breathalyser bag. If someone does get drunk and cause deaths then there jolly well ought to be a law that says his crew had a right to expect more sense from their skipper and he's nicked for letting them down. They haven't stopped drunken road driving and I don't suppose they'll stop drunken boat driving either but I very much doubt they will be after the likes of you and me. Or maybe that is the trouble...

 

[Guest]

Or watched a woman trying desperately to rescue...

...her drunken husband when he missed his footing getting aboard from the dinghy and can't get back into the dinghy or onboard in a current running at over three knots. Had it not been for sheer fluke (we were still awake and fully dressed after a long game of rummy and heard her cries, happened to have a dinghy in the water with an outboard on it, in working condition, and were sober enough to assess the problem and be on our way in seconds) I prefer not to think what the end of that story might have been. Not nice for him, or her, or their children back home, or those who had to find the body when it eventually found its way to some place...if people behaved more sensibly the topic would never have arisen in the regulators' minds. No, I'm not saying I want to see new laws passed. I'd like to see some sign that we were all grown-up enough not to care whether a law dictates a behaviour or just common sense. I don't do it because it would be stupid. I do enough stupid things without risking hurting other people by stupefying myself when I'm responsible for several tons of mobile hardware, its occupants and those of neighbouring boats. But then I'm just a woman. What the hell would I know?

 

[Guest]

I e-mailed my MP, asking him how he would vote. He has not bothered to reply to me. But then he's an inland MP, so why should he care.

Colin H.

 

[Guest]

"Or maybe that is the trouble"... ???

That surely is the point. There ISN'T any trouble.

Steve Cronin

 

[webcraft]

Re: \"Or maybe that is the trouble\"... ???

Everyone in this thread is unregistered - see what you get for spreading sedition.

- W

 

[BrendanS]

Re: \"Or maybe that is the trouble\"... ???

It probably has more to do with the fact that the thread dates back to 2001! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[webcraft]

Re: \"Or maybe that is the trouble\"... ???

Which leads me to wonder how it suddenly appeared again . . .

Wonder if anything else will comne bubbling up from the murky depths of the database's past.

- W

 

[BrendanS]

Re: \"Or maybe that is the trouble\"... ???

someone has replied to the thread, then deleted their response.

 

[Heckler]

Re: \"Or maybe that is the trouble\"... ???

There was another one earlier on, someone is playig little games
Stu