I'm leaving my lights on so some drunk boater doesn't come along and smack into me. An accident can happen anywhere, even "one cast away" from shore.[/QUOTE]

now that would be a wreck, that would make headlines. fisherman drinking while boating { which is against the law } runs over another boat that is fishing one cast from shore with no lights on { which is against the law } a wreck that didn't have to happen, if only that nut fishing so close to the bank, would have had his lights on. that drunk wouldn't have smacked into him.