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Originally Posted by Audiofn
This is about a forum for ALL boaters to voice their concerns.
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Jon,
This is also a forum about Winnipesaukee issues. But everytime a GFBL issue comes up anywhere, all you guys from all over the country band together like a swarm of bees. You did it in Tampa. You did it in Ohio. You flood our local forum with your nation-wide opinions. Lake Winnipesaukee is a NH citizen owned water body, and WE, the citizens of NH, should be the only ones deciding its fate, not people from Fort Lauderdale, New Jersey, Canada, Maine, and Massachusetts. By my observation, the VAST majority of these offshore boats bear out-of-NH registrations. NH does not even collect a registration fee from them. We don't even have a count on them. They gas up their 300-gallon tanks on the way up through NJ and leave its MTBE in our water. They buy their weekend's beer and tequila in Connecticut and leave its resulting urine in our water. Except for all the money they spend at the Naswa, they contribute zilch to our economy. They scare away the peaceful tourists that we really want. They scare families off the lake. This is just the best and most convenient playground they could find, and we are maintaining it for them at our expense. They care nothing about this lake except that it has always tolerated their behavior and looked the other way under the mistaken belief that all this was financially beneficial to us. They leave their trash behind knowing we will have it all cleaned up for them by the next weekend. We who really own this lake, the real right-owners here, must dodge them every weekend and tie our boats to our docks to stay out of their way.
Its just time for NH to take back our lake. These guys can just as easily trailer their boats up to a different playground every weekend like Lake George (oh ya, that one is off limits to them now too).
You and Custie can say all you want that "its not the boats, its the behavior", but if you truly cared about restoring order to this lake, you'd agree that something simply has to be done, and this does not target the boats, it targets the behavior. The 150 foot rule and the noise law are jokes. We need to deter these yahoos from trailering their boats up here every weekend. You are either one of them or you are against them. If you don't need to go 70 MPH to enjoy the lake as you say, if you truly care about the rights of others, if you truly care about Lake Winnipesaukee, then stop siding with those **** and hiding behind the "live free or die" argument, and work with the rest of us to fix the huge problem that has destroyed this lake for so many of us...crazily high speeds and the noise that goes hand-in-hand with it. Once the speeding is gone, the idiots will go, the noise they make will go, the danger that they "statistically" have nothing to do with will go, and the good people of NH, like me and supposedly you, can enjoy the lake again in some peace. Would you and Custie honestly feel comfortable sending your parents out in a 21-foot boat to take your kids to get an ice cream on this lake on a July weekend? C'mon!