In 1993 John Page Williams of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation made the following observation:

“Thirty years ago, the gear was simple. Kids grew up with wooden rowboats and you couldn’t go very far or very fast. You looked at what was there. Now boats are bigger, faster [and] plusher. The boat is the center of recreation, rather than the river.”

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