{"id":1496,"date":"2011-04-22T13:26:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T17:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2011-04-24T11:52:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T15:52:11","slug":"lake-george-kayak-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"Lake George Kayak Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been quite a bit of interest lately in a court case regarding a fatal kayak accident on Lake George N.Y.\u00a0 last summer. It all stems from an incident where a power boat was involved in a collision with a kayak resulting in the death of the kayaker. The incident has drawn considerable attention because,\u00a0 according to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Lake George Kayak Accident\" href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/article_4cc3028e-67a2-11e0-8957-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\">news reports <\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Town Justice Robert McNally found that the kayak was not considered a &#8220;sailing&#8221; vessel under state law, so the operator of the power boat was not required to yield the right of way to it.<\/p>\n<p>For discussion of the situation and what it means see the NACK Long Island <strong><a title=\"Lake George Kayak Accident LI Sea Kayak Message Board\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nacknotes.org\/phpbb\/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=23\" target=\"_blank\">Sea Kayak Message Board<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been quite a bit of interest lately in a court case regarding a fatal kayak accident on Lake George N.Y.\u00a0 last summer. It all stems from an incident where a power boat was involved in a collision with a kayak resulting in the death of the kayaker. The incident has drawn considerable attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/get-the-nack.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}