Acres you are missing the point. How if they can not radar a boat will they be able to establish with any accuracy the speed of a boat? Some boats look like they are going faster when in fact they are going slower. It is not even close to estimating the speed of a car, you have no reference points to look at or anything. The cost of training the MP were the kids ussually only are around for a year anyhow would be huge. I find it interesting that I have asked all you guys questions, honest questions, and NONE of them have been answered. Just a lot of back talk like AND.... Kids have arguments like that.... We have shown facts that very few accidents involve speed. We have also shown facts that even though the number of boats on the lake have gone up, the number of accidents has gone down. You saying that there is a wake law on the books proves a point that the MP does not enforce the many laws that they already have to work with. I for one HATE huge wakes when they hit my dock, and would love to see this law enforced. It is something that is a LOT more enforcable as you can see the large wakes, and there is NO doubt that it damages the shores. However the large wakes have nothing to do with speed. Actually to have the speed limit will increase the size of most of the wake that is seen on the lake as a boat that is going as speeds over 35-45mph ussually puts off a much smaller wake, I know mine does.
You brought up the noise post to try and discredit me so I feel that I have to respond to that. It is TOTALLY true, you can not measure noise on the water accuratly. Since that is something that I do in my work I know a little something about it. When I DB a room/theater we turn off everything in the house, refridgerators, ac/heat, other tv's in the house as they will all make our readings inaccurate. These are in 30 million dollar homes with high end heating systems that are not all that loud to begin with and rooms that are super isolated from sound but we still have to go through all this effort to get the room as quite as possible. You can actually see the meter jump if some one walks in the house. We use a 5,000 dollar meter and mic. We can see the same thing however on our cheaper units. Now you are telling me that out in the open on a lake with boats and everything else you can isolate sound that well to get an accurate reading? Point two of my argument on that thread was that they were doing the readings wrong. They were taking DB readings in the river with boundry walls on either side, at a dock were noise gets amplified by the underside of the dock. Not holding the meter properly and so on. All these things are clearly against what the law says. Now they have been doing a better job as of late and we have all complied with the law. At any rate lets not get this thread off topic. I have responded to your post but the topic on this thread is speed not noise, we comply with all the noise regulations on the lake.
Jon
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