RE: boating question
I am not so sure I would want him to be playing around with that one. But then again i do not know your son none so it's not up to me to decide. It's just that your average teen once out of sight likes to play. Up here with a boat like that opened up and all the sudden rock piles or deadheads from the logging days of river drives could quickly become disaster. I wouldn't want that on my concience...
Again though only you and his friends knows him more.