Rodney Alan Lee

Further regulation of the coastal bars in Oregon is unecessary and unwarranted. Based on the previous 15 years of bar crossings and capsizings we have about a 0.0013 % chance of incident. Of those incidents, the physical attributes of the vessel were not the cause of the problem. Most of those incidents were caused by a captain KNOWINGLY exceeding the limits of his vessel and until you have a device to measure brain capacity those events will always occur regardless of any boat restriction formulas you would use. Do not punish all the safe boaters for something a very ridiculously few captains do. There have been literally MILLIONS of safe crossings over the past 15 years with our current restrictions so I think we can safely say we have done a pretty good job. Education is better than regulation. Do not pass any new bar restriction formulas. We appreciate your attempts to keep us safe but this is not the best bang for the buck. Thank you, Rod Lee