I had to write to correct one thing in your paper’s article on personal watercraft (BDN, July 21). The 200-foot no wake zone is from the shoreline. This means a person can not make a wake unless the craft is over 200 feet from the shoreline.

I would also like to say something on the noise. It might be nice to move to a new spot once in a while, but on a small lake it doesn’t do much good. If a car or truck made the amount of noise these watercraft do they would be banned from the roads.

Your article might sway some people to the side of the watercraft people, the money-hungry dealers, but as I live by a lake and have to live with the noise and the damaging wake these watercraft make, it would take more than a ride on one to change my mind about them. I am against personal watercraft on lakes in Maine.

Robert Siegler

Lincoln