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Originally Posted by VtSteve
I'm sure he has a chart, and is quite familiar with the lake. I doubt slowing down would have helped much. There was another boat that sunk last week, and they were only going 5 mph. Gosh, this is getting complicated  |
One way to examine that sinking is to determine the time and location of the cruiser, "Life is Good".
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Originally Posted by jrc
Let's face it, the NH spar buoys are tough to see in the chop or at night. I think switching to something fatter would help.
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1) Lake Winnipesaukee
had something fatter—about 20 years ago...
oversized boats started hitting them and breaking them off.
On the other hand, cast-iron
ATON buoys would provide the incentive to make Winnipesaukee's boat "drivers" into "helmsmen"—and instantly identify any problem boaters.
2) Everything is tough to see at night.
One proposal for night-time navigation around our markers would be solar-powered marker lights:
3) Look,
markers are easy to see in the light of morning and afternoon. Boating at mid-day has the markers sunlit from above; however,
the rocks they are marking are more easily seen at mid-day.
4) 
To improve the markers' apparent day-time
invisibility, the NH Legislture should mandate that
each marker get upgraded with this new item:
(The author of "The Streets of Laredo" gets an apology from me for my Title here...) 