New age mandate for driving motorboats and personal watercrafts in Colorado [Video]

DENVER — If you’re planning to bring your family out to Colorado waters, make sure your kids are old enough to captain the boat.

A new state law that took effect Saturday states anyone driving a motorboat or personal watercraft must be 18 years old or have already completed a state-approved boater safety course.

To take that course, you have to be between the ages of 14 and 17.

It’s a change Patricia Seguel, a mom of two young kids feels happy about.

“I think it’s made me feel so much better because you never know the mind of the kids,” she said. “So I feel better if the older kids can drive now and no younger kids in the lake because you never know when maybe can hit you and they don’t have responsibilities too.”

Just one day after the law took effect, Denver7 shared the news with boat …