I'm not really for a bunch of regulations either, but I also know that the busier lakes get, the less you can rely on common sense. I personally have known three people who have died on the water. Two of those were in separate boat to boat hits. In both cases, the person I knew was a very experienced boater. In both cases, the reports say that both boats corrected the same way, then they both corrected again at least one time, always both correcting into each other. There is a proper way to correct so that means in both cases, one boat initially did the right thing and the other did not. I don't know if the people I knew were the ones that acted correctly or not. The person who acted properly then felt the need to go the other way, as did the other boat. In both cases, two people I know might still be alive today if all four boaters knew the protocol. Saying we should rely on common sense simply doesn't make sense. Saying that all boaters shouldn't be required to at least review proper boating protocol doesn't make sense. If it doesn't make sense than you can throw common sense out the window.