Keeping boaters out of hot water

From the Janesville Gazette HERE

...Another boater had six adults and children in a boat rated for five passengers. The boater also was towing three children on a tube. The three on the tube were legal, but the boat had:

-- Adult-sized PFDs for some of the children.

-- A fire extinguisher with no charge in it.

-- Uncovered battery terminals

...The deputies stopped their first boat because someone was sitting up on a rear deck. It's illegal to sit on gunwales or certain other parts of the boat while it's under way.

Pyne also discovered the boat had no Coast Guard-approved PFD that could be thrown, and he issued a $148 citation for that.