At Eddyline our purpose is “to build quality craft that inspire people to safely and equitably enjoy access to clean and healthy waterways”. We strongly support safe paddling, however we are opposed to WA HB 1018 for the reasons that we have laid out in this letter. We do not believe that this approach will effectively promote safe paddling, but we do feel it will unfairly limit access to our sport at a time when people need it the most.