I am not a parent and if I was wouldn’t be one of these “helicopter parents” but I do know when your a kid and your on the intercostal at the inlet any inlet looking out you always want to “go out”. Its the Huck Fin in all boys...
My advise to any parent with an adventurous kid in a boat would be put a tracker on that kids boat and if he disobeys your rules,pull the boat.
These folks are eaten up with anguish and I feel for them very much.They trusted the boys to obey the rules and the boys pushed the envelope.
PS: Jupiter is a brutal inlet in good weather although I don’t think this happened in or out of the inlet but off shore a ways
Heres an incident in 2010.I had meet this Cptn years before,he was experinced and coming in from a good day.He died from his injuries... this was sad.
The ocean has no mercy
Capt had been running that channel 20 years and this still happened....