[ApS]

Interesting that APC forgot to mention that this was a off duty deputy and that he has been repremanded three times for accidents involving his squad car that his bosses thought he could have prevented.

Risk-taking behavior is indicated; but why not give the deputy a PASS on "preventable" accidents? Cops are 24/7 mobile -- day and night -- rain and snow.

Why not slap him with a FAIL for not taking the Breathalyzer?

Guess it's in one's priorities.

In your never ending quest to bash big boats you don't seem to realize It's not the boat, it's the driver. It's getting real old APC and I don't even own a boat over 10 feet!

It's the "Driver"?

If Acres per Second became a really, really, REALLY drunk "driver", it is impossible to endanger 13 passengers in my "boat". (Or, for that matter, slice through even one dock).

I dont know what kind of quest you are on...there will never be a ban on offshore powerboats, there will never be a lake wide no wake zone, there will never be no powerboats, the lake will never go back to the 1920's.

Heck, I'll settle for the 80s!
And never...say...never. They're talking $3 gasoline today -- plus, Winnipesaukee did have two lake-wide, no-wake-zones already. Maybe you overlooked them.

If you go back to the article, you'll see that a no-wake zone was in force at the condominium. Maybe you overlooked that too.

You will just have to use your aluminum boat and your hobie cat and be happy with that.

You mean, happy with:

Ejected passengers=zero?...Docks=zero?

I can live with that.

My frustration is that APS often hijacks threads, tries to take them off topic, and promote his own agenda.

Ever try to follow a thread at the old Forum?

Threads aren't stabile by nature; especially as they get "stale-dated". A sinister agenda would be to limit expression of ideas or opinions.

Besides, it's a NEWS story, reported from a BOATING forum. This story has everything:

1) Too much boat
2) Too much liquor
3) Deputy refuses Breathalyzer
4) Racing: There were two GFBLs (Go Fast Be Loud) racing each other -- found in "comments", not article.
5) Racing in No-wake zone
6) Boat overloaded
7) Risk-taking behavior
8) Nothing goes wrong until the dock gets in the way

OK, there's no sex.

We may be "lucky" that our boating season is short!

This thread was about Upnorth looking for recommendations on a boat, to which most replied in kind.

OK, I agree with the Grady. Nice deadrise....

Still, Will made an unanswered comment.

Sometimes I feel like APS considers the forum how own private soap box.

It's everybody's soap box/opinion/2¢/IMHO.

It's my humble opinion that Winnipesaukee is no place for boors.

Give us the benefit of your reasoning.

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