How many boating accidents, how many boating injuries, how many boating fatalities will it take before we have had enough? A 40-year-old man can buy a 40-foot-boat with 1,000 horsepower, load his family into the boat, push the throttles up to 100 mph, all with no boating experience and no boating education. He is required to have no, none, nada boating experience at all.