Targeting speeding Boats....

[seasider]

Are these easy to move?
As you can see the camera has been redirected


Sorry about the picture quality taken with my phone...

[cptsideways]

My mate has has on his wall a speeding ticket from Sussex Water Police/Authority, it went to court it cost him eighty odd quid.

It was a 5 knot limit on the river Arun & they were waterskiing behind his speedbaot .

[IOLAIRE]

For a great many years I enjoyed the pleasures of keeping my boats on Loch Lomond which is the largest inland loch in Britain.
There were two significant accidents within a few years of one another, both horrendous resulting in explosions and deaths, and both 100% due to alcohol abuse, I'm talking about people piloting vessels who were staggering drunk.
What do the local authorities do?
They force everyone to license their boats, stick enormous numbers on the side and put a police boat on the loch and book them for speeding.
The loch now has only about forty percent of the vessels it had and the whole atmosphere has been ruined, not to mention the businesses that have been affected.
Who said the authorities have an obsession with speed?
NAHHHH!!!

[miniandy]

I got done for speeding on my jetski on loch lomond last summer.. all i got was a telling off, and told if it happened again i would be banned!

and you're right, the stickers are awful!

[james_j]

IOLAIRE said:

For a great many years I enjoyed the pleasures of keeping my boats on Loch Lomond which is the largest inland loch in Britain. There were two significant accidents within a few years of one another, both horrendous resulting in explosions and deaths, and both 100% due to alcohol abuse, I'm talking about people piloting vessels who were staggering drunk. What do the local authorities do? They force everyone to license their boats, stick enormous numbers on the side and put a police boat on the loch and book them for speeding. The loch now has only about forty percent of the vessels it had and the whole atmosphere has been ruined, not to mention the businesses that have been affected. Who said the authorities have an obsession with speed? NAHHHH!!!

I'm convinced the sort of people with the power to introduce and manage speed limits (or any sort of control / inconvenience) are just looking for an excuse, any excuse no matter how tenuous the link.