Paul Vitucci:
Active water sports boats that use ballasts for the activity, we need about 15 feet of water. So, if we were on a lake with no homes — if we were in six feet of water and we tried to wakeboard, or we tried to surf or kneeboard or anything what we call ballast-assisted activities — it's not going to happen. The physics is not going to allow for it. So regardless, we got to get in deep water anyways, so that's a nice benefit — the science says about 200 feet from shore is where the wave energy settles out. OK, guess what? Most lakes — 200 feet from shore — you're barely in deep enough water to be able to actually do the activity that you want to do. So it's a win-win. Ideally it would be phenomenal if we could clean up all of this, just get some statewide legislation that says, "Hey, listen, let's be 200 or 250 feet from shore for the ballast-assisted activities." What we're battling with right now is we got a lot of noise right there. Our biggest concern is that if the state does step in, and I believe it may, we may have some collateral damage.