Mark, I wasn't questioning your intentions of helping a fellow boater out. I was stating the laws here in Indiana. I was "renting" a boat several years ago while staying at a cottage north of Ft. Wayne when I noticed someone paddling their boat on Crooked Lake. I/we watched as several boaters drove? by the troubled boat. My brother-in-law and I left the cottage, and families, to go rescue the boaters and towed them to the complete other end of the lake. When we got to his cottage, he was holding his hand out with some cash in it as my b-i-l dropped the tow rope and we left. I've towed several boats in and have only accepted? cash one time, and that only happened because I was loading my boat at the same time and he kept insisting that I take it. I've never done it for the money..........it's the satisfaction of helping a stranded boater out. I may need some help some day..........As Doug would say, "Good Karma"
Terry