I checked out this NHRBA site, but it appears to be another front for the cigarette boat only crowd. And all of the members list "Partying" as one of their primary interests. I get a quick sense where that is headed. Can't there be something that really represents the average guy who just wants to appreciate the lake? Seems like everyone has a narrow agenda these days. I'm starting to lean towards the feeling that 45MPH is not that bad. It's much faster than I'd ever want to go, and seems like a pretty fair compromise, all things considered. Seems like that's the direction we should all be headed if we are ever going to stop the bickering...looking for such a compromise. I had been feeling that the speed limit bill was just another attempt to take away our rights, until I started to think about how fast 45MPH really is on water. When we sit at our computers in the wintertime, it sounds restrictive. But when you are in a boat, you start to wonder why anyone would think they need to go any faster. It's almost equivalent to arguing about a 100MPH limit on the highways. As that restaurant guy will surely tell you after he reviews all of my posts for the past ten years and writes up a summary about me, I'm generally all in favor of personal rights, but I'd never side with people arguing that a 100MPH highway speed limit is too low. So how did I get myself to where I was agreeing that a 45MPH lake limit was too low?
FJ