Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, June 8, 1961, page 44 (of 50)
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Boating Must Be SAFE to Be Fun
BY ALFRED BALK From the Golden Gate to Long Island Sound, boatmen are working to protect the 40,000,000 people who will be on the water this summer PHOTOGRAPH BY MORRIS ROSENFELD I NEVER REALIZED what was happening on our waterways until I went out on a sunlit lake last summer to introduce my six-year-old daughter Cindy to the gentle art of fishing. We had just anchored our rowboat in a glass-smooth cove a few hundred yards offshore and dropped our lines, when we heard the snort and snarl of speedboats. Twin-engine outboards as powerful as autos roared full throttle among the small fishing boats. Water "hot-rudders," some towing water skiers, whipped the lake's surface so that our little craft rocked wildly. I rowed to shore in frustrated rage, and took Cindy home in tears. "Does it have to be that way?" she asked later. Millions have asked the same question. With boating's boom to the top of family participation sports in the last decade—40 million Americans, or nearly one of every five, now belong to families with boats—our lakes and shores as idyllic settings for peaceful fun and relaxation seem lost with the past. Worse, accidents have shot upward: boating now stands ninth nationally as a cause of fatal mishaps. In 1960, on some holidays in some areas the water claimed more victims than highways—Memorial Day weekend in Connecticut, for example, and July Fourth in New York. And the number of boats is expected to double in the next decade. Yet despite the chaos and congestion on many waterways, this year there seems real hope, not only for safety and sanity but for peaceful, even pleasant, coexistence o. ...l who would enjoy the water. Where laws lack teeth or where official action has lagged, many communities themselves have taken a stand to crack down on waterway killing and maiming. Take Hennepin County, Minn., where 72 lakes attract hordes of boaters every holiday or weekend. Six years ago, when the boat population was only half what it is today, seven persons were drowned in boating accidents on Lake Minnetonka alone. Long-time resident Dr. A. E. Aller, a boating enthusiast, was appalled. "If something isn't done, and done soon," he said, "nobody will be safe on our lake, residents or visitors." That winter he got in touch with property owners, mayors of 15 lake villages, and Sheriff Ed Ryan. Together they knit a village association and voluntary water patrol. One official, a village attorney, drafted new water-safety and antinuisance ordinances. Another, a police chief, screened and trained volunteer patrolmen. Each town propriated $100 for expenses. By summer 30 men, deputized as sheriff's patrolmen and using their own boats, fanned out across the lake in shifts, explaining the laws to new-