RE: boating question
I'm 18, and my dad has been letting me take his 40 horse, sixteen foot boat out with my friends since last summer when I was 17. Here in Wisconsin I was required to take boaters safety, before I could do it. My dad knows I wouldn't do anything stupid, so he trusts me a lot. He knew though that I knew what I was doing, since I drive all the time when we go fishing, and he knew that I knew everything about loading the boat up, including backing the trailer all the way down the 250 foot driveway leading to the boat launch. If you have a lot of trust in him, and know that he knows what he is doing, I don't see any problem in letting him take the boat out.