NJ Boating
Actually, I think the course must have a positive effect because my experience with boating in New jersey has been nothing but positive. The idiocy that I keep reading about in this forum must be primarily in other states ... in New Jersey, boaters seem to be much more sophisticated and better behaved!
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I can honestly say that after boating on the Chesapeake for six years, my decades of boating in NJ was like visiting an insane asylum. Between people craching their boats into sand bars, other boats, the NJ Marine SS (sorry, the most accurate descriptor I could come up with) to many nuts to close together. By the way if the Marine Police have to take the test it only proves that the test doesn't do much as I almost got run into by one of them once. He was stand down, I was right of way, he had no lights and evidently not a clue or didn't care, either way. You can make them get all kinds of licenses, most will still be stupid, very hard to fix stupid. With out a doubt the Chesapeake has it share of nuts but there is more space between them, gives you some recovery time before the next assault.
Actually, I think the course must have a positive effect because my experience with boating in New jersey has been nothing but positive. The idiocy that I keep reading about in this forum must be primarily in other states ... in New Jersey, boaters seem to be much more sophisticated and better behaved!
[/quote]I can honestly say that after boating on the Chesapeake for six years, my decades of boating in NJ was like visiting an insane asylum. Between people craching their boats into sand bars, other boats, the NJ Marine SS (sorry, the most accurate descriptor I could come up with) to many nuts to close together. By the way if the Marine Police have to take the test it only proves that the test doesn't do much as I almost got run into by one of them once. He was stand down, I was right of way, he had no lights and evidently not a clue or didn't care, either way. You can make them get all kinds of licenses, most will still be stupid, very hard to fix stupid. With out a doubt the Chesapeake has it share of nuts but there is more space between them, gives you some recovery time before the next assault.