The Way to Become a Better Speed Boat Driver

Generosity is contagious. This is a maxim that often times loses its meaning on commonplace encounter with various people but in some manner finds its essence on waters. If you have done some hours boating out in the sea, you understand what I mean. If you're new to boating, you will be amazed how boaters treat other boaters as compared to drivers on freeway or even around your neighborhood.

Boaters are more polite, giving, courteous and even helpful to other boaters. Correct etiquette is always seasoned. And although many boaters didn't take any boating safety course, they are mindful of the things to do and the means to act on every situation.

Common sense - the unwritten rule on boating and a need to have if you wish to survive on waters. Should there be an enquiry of right-of-way, frequent sense will always tell you to give it to the other guy in spite of who is privileged and who is weighed. In boating, everybody seems to know this and for some good reasons, everyone seems to consciously employ everyday sense and settle to others.

I am in a position to relate this to a story I have listened to not so earlier. Two guys were casually boating holding their way at 4 miles per hour. A large cruiser was coming to their rear. Logically, the large cruiser, since it was the weighted down, had to yield while the casual boaters can hold their line because they were privileged. Still, everyday sense prevailed to the privileged ones, realizing that they can grow into trouble and yielded for the large boat.

This is not an isolated incident. Most boaters are more inclined on employing their common sense than enforcing the principle of who's the privileged and who's the weighed. And this is something you always wish to bring when going out on the waters. This is not the rule but it is always best to drop and let the other guys pass, despite who has the right-of-way.

Each time I set to the waters, I always observe this variety of behavior is a collective manner. Everyone seems to sink to others - not because they know the rules but more because they are inclined to treat boaters as neighbors on identical water. Moreover, there is always that help-your neighbor policy that rules everyone. Actually, this is a legal rule but boaters who are unconscious that this is a rule tend to apply it each time or a minimum of when they are on the waters.

This seems sensible because if you require assistance, you need someone to finish and render you some help. But boaters do this not because they treat others as a means (helping others just because they expect others to aid them) but as an ends (simply helping because it is the proper thing to do).

To be honest, seeing boaters helping one other boater to tow his boat to the shore or fix a boat, occasionally for several hours, can drive me crazy in a good way. If I anchored several hundred yards faraway from the chief pack, it will only be just a matter of time when someone will approach me to ask if everything is okay or yell from the distance "Out of gas?" or "Need some help?"

General rules are good but they are more useful when legal disputes are required. On waters, always play defensive to avoid collisions, create harmony with other boaters, and always be ready to give others help.

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