That's we use now. The lake where this waverunner will be based is a dammed river, with lots of creeks and islands. If have a reasonable knowledge of the lake and the visibility is good, then pilotage works well. Although they've been on that lake for years now neither of them wants to drive the boat and they don't know where they are most of the time. I'd like them to feel comfortable ranging around the lake, and lose some of the timidity that they mother has taught them.
[RANT] You hear about how girls and young women are afraid to do many things quite often in the media, and then there's usually some speculation about the causes of these things. Lots of women blame society, others the "patriarchy". I've seen it in action and it's their mothers that make them this way. My sister wasn't raised to be timid about doing things and she isn't. My wife has taught it to my daughters. There are lots of them that even after having had their drivers license for more than a year who are afraid to drive on the expressway. Once when I was 17, we were living in St. Petersburg, my dad was working in Atlanta, and there was a car race he wanted to drive in that was in Savannah. He asked me to meet him there. I got in my car, drove over to where the truck was kept, brought it home, loaded it with parts and tools, went over to where the race car was, hooked up the trailer and loaded the car on it, got some cash from my mother to buy gas, and headed off to Savannah, no cell phone, no GPS, just a map (which I didn't need, I knew how to get there.) and some cash. If you suggested to my wife that one of my daughters do something like that I think she'd faint. {/RANT]
