Running with a boat is a good idea, if...

The boat is a ski boat and you have to stay in your tube while you get pulled around the lake @ 40 mph to your next location. :o

But seriously folks, the law is what the law is. I ran the first day at the BnT Clear Lake Open this year (just when everything was coming down) and I felt like a criminal, looking over my shoulder for rangers or in my rear-view mirror for police. In fact, I didn't run the next day even though my chances for placing higher in the tourney would have been better. So I'm glad John took a stand so that nobody in BnT tourneys has an unfair advantage. It's a lot more relaxing to launch & weigh-in at one place; no lost time due to driving, packing/unpacking, easier on the fish, etc. And it boils down to who figures out the fish in that area, not who finds a secret honey-hole on the other side of the lake. I've fished boater tourneys where the winner never used the big motor, they just trolled within sight of the marina. It's what you do with what you've got.

I'm climbing down off the soapbox now...