Name:   slowtimer - Subject:   Question: if someone brings a 30 foot boat Date:   6/13/2019 9:57:55 AM

If I had a boat like that I would absolutely have a spare set of props so I could legally drive it on my home lake.  It would only take about a minute to change them out if I took it to a different lake.  It's a cheap and easy way to be legal it seems like.  It's just like someone who has a street legal race car.  They have a muffler to put on it when they drive it in the street to meet sound ordinances.  The muffler gets removed at a race track.  

I believe there is already a state law that restricts boat exhaust decibels.  They make mufflers for the performance boats so that should eliminate the sound concern.  Now we are just left with people complaining about a specific type of boat because they either have an immediate negative opinion of them or they think they are unsafe.  Then we get into a situation where people get to restrict others rights because they don't like something.

  I'm a libertarian so I see the other side.  What if person A didn't like something that person B has and was able to get a law passed that bans what person B has.  Then what happens if person B gets some power and is able to get a law passed that bans something person A has.  Both

person A and B have now lost what they had and everybody else that is not involved now must abide by the new laws.  If it is not actually harming someone else then I don't see a reason to ban items just because some people don't like it.