LadyFish
Admiral
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- Mar 18, 2003
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Living on an island the tourists come in droves on a holiday weekend. Yesterday there were an extra 120,000 people here and another 100,000 are expected today. For some reason the ones on the water have no regard for safety.<br /><br />We went to an area on the bay call the "Crash Boat Basin" to wait for friends to watch the fireworks by boat.<br /><br />I have never seen more unsafe boating before in my life. The basin is about a mile long and maybe 75 yards wide. Houses on both sides with docks. This area does not have a no-wake zone and for the life of me I can't figure out why.<br /><br />There were at least 75 boats and jet skis in the area. Every boat was loaded to capacity and then some, and most were towing a skiier or toy on the back. In addition, every jet ski had 2 riders and some of them were towing. There were speed boats, runabouts, yachts and swimmers all in this small area, it was a free-for-all. <br /><br />We sat there in the boat at the end of the basin for about a hour and a half waiting for our party to arrive and watched the mayhem. Not only were kids not wearing life jackets but parents let small children ride on the bowrail in this very turbulent water. There is no excuse for stupidity and we saw plenty. Its only a matter of time before someone gets killed.