Hi"Christopher, living here in H2oland ( The Netherlands,) theres more water than land, when sailing you have to know the rules of the road, sort of thing, we have lots of small craft here, ranging power and sail, there are many runabouts towing a large innertube with kids in it and they bounce all over the place and after a while they bounce off in to the water, its great fun ( I know I've done it,) I get worried when they bounce close to my boat, because they are going at hell of a speed, and cant just stop, they may slam into it, but most time they stay near the shore, you have to have your eyes everywhere, one side you've got kids bouncing all over the place and on the other side you have these great big barges which are moving at high speed of knots ( the law say"a large boat has to give way to a smaller boat"ha, dont tell me, tell the barges, it takes about a mile for them to stop, so you move out of there way, and the waves they make ( wash) are big, and I love it, my boat rolls over them like as if she is trying to take off, wont tell you what my crew ( ladyfriend ) says when that happens, up the north of Holland there are some islands, and when the dide goes out you can almost walk across from the mainland to the islands, so if you have a keel boat you have to take care, its great to sit on my boat when the tide goes out she just sits there on the sand, very quite, no one around, till the water comes back, she wont tip over because she is a 9m trimaran, so we sit there with a glass of wine and watch the sun sets, which are out of this world, ................John 2000