Letters

Jet Skis
As a longtime East Coast surfer, I can tell Jack McCallum that jet skis are reviled by watermen everywhere (POINT AFTER, July 21), not only because this motorized flotsam is typically piloted by yahoos who are a hazard to boaters and swimmers alike, but also because the high-pitched whine of their engines and the acrid smoke they emit are exactly the sorts of things we had hoped to escape at the shore. McCallum's right to "push my start button and feel the wind in my face" shouldn't impinge on everybody else's freedom to enjoy a day at the beach.
ROB CUMMINGS, Brooklyn