There's a lot less boats now – a fraction of the fleet.
Because Team New Zealand has no Hula-less boat to fall back on, outlawing the device would effectively disqualify New Zealand from defending the Cup, a move an international jury is unlikely to make.
If the major parties went on more about infrastructure and less about boat people, would anxiety about unauthorised boat arrivals dissipate?
Virtually all lakefront property is privately owned, resulting in much less weekend boat traffic on Lake L. B. J. than on other Texas lakes.
In the process, they are displacing the less affluent boat people, many of whom are relics of the 1960s and 1970s era of flower power now struggling to pay the upkeep on their boats.
But the top prize is often won by a less spectacular boat once handicap adjustments are made to the time taken, the defending champion being Niklas Zennström's 72-foot Rán.
Lisa Grandle, Arlington County's park development division chief, called the long-awaited Park Service report "an extremely positive forward movement," noting the river is calmer at the Rosslyn site than other downstream sites that were considered, and there is less motorized boat traffic.
Thursday's horrific scenes are only the latest in a long line of similar, albeit less dramatic, boat disasters – a litany of largely avoidable loss which inspired Pope Francis, on a visit to Lampedusa earlier this year, to inveigh against the rich world's "globalisation of indifference".
