Like it or not, a free boating education course and/or pseudo"license" is getting to be a reality. Basic navigation is what everyone needs to know to avoid most of the crap that happens. Many new boaters are unaware that the lake is like a highway with right of way.
Lake Lice-same thing but renters need to take a 4 hour course before renting. This would educate the serious people and drive away those who just want to plunk down a few hundy and act the fool for an afternoon. Sea-Doos are now 12 feet long with 200+hp and are like missiles that can not only damage boats but kill passengers.
Take a number-Someone needs to figure out how many boats is a safe number for the Havasu-Laughlin stretch and enforce it by linking all launch areas together elctronically. Once that number is reached nobody else gets on. And everyone gets a number that must be displayed in plain view on the vessel. If you want to be a jerk off and several boaters want to turn your ass in for reckless and/or drunk driving, you can run from the cops with your 100mph rig but when you get to the channel the cops will pull your # and send you to the launch ramp. Your day is over. This will allow the boating community to enforce itself.
Gorge-Reasonable speed with radar enforcement. Yeah, speed traps suck but that little girl might still be alive if people were forced to drive like they had a brain.
In my perfect world people would just grow up and practice a little common sense and integrity to avoid stupid incidents. But if they can't someone has to force them to behave. And if they can't behave they should leave to protect the safety of the majority.
So what do you think? I'm gonna go cook some popcorn and put on my nomex underwear...
maybe a jock strap with a cup...