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Article: Squeezing personal watercraft: more states are finding ways to restrict their use.
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- Yachting
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Bonnier Corporation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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THEY ARE ONE OF THE GREAT COMMERCIAL SUCCESS stories of this decade. Personal watercraft sales are growing by more than 30 percent a year. And they've not only provided a nice profit for manufacturers and dealers but they've brought a new generation of boaters to the water.
But with this growth comes increasing pressure to regulate these craft. If you own one, or plan to buy one, be prepared. Florida was the first state, in 1989, to pass legislation on personal watercraft. As law requires that personal watercraft operators wear life jackets, that personal watercraft have lanyard engine cutoffs, that they cannot be operated after dark, that they cannot be operated by ...