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Originally Posted by Fat Jack
Once the speeding stops, the noise will be gone.
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Interesting comments, my 22 foot stingray will do 60 MPH and with its alpha drive and through prop exhaust makes very little noise. I fail to see a connection of speed and excessive noise. If you want to connect something connect unmuffled exhaust with noise not speed. 2 different issues. I can tell you the Hendrick motor in Jeff Gordon’s Nextel cup car makes a lot of noise at 40 MPH a lot more than my pickup. Main (not only) difference? Muffler. If a boat is traveling at 100 MPH but only produce say 82dbs does that solve your noise problem? Can you live with that?
Playing devils advocate, you don't drive a moped on the interstate. Maybe larger bodies of water need to be reserved for larger or faster boats and smaller lakes for smaller boats. I know numerous smaller lakes here in NE that limit HP or even require electric motors, but it isn't the larger lakes. OR maybe the lake should be closed at certain times of the day to powered vessels of any kind. Then the canoes and sailboats can have their time on it and the power sports people can have their time. Lake of the Ozarks has no daytime speed limit but does at night. In the 2 1/2 years I lived there most problems we had were with alcohol and rental boats/jet ski operators not knowing the rules of the road. On guy parked his 40ft sea ray on the Porta Cima Golf course in the middle of the night. He wasn’t speeding, just drinking and a couple of gals that were not his wife onboard distracted him. Does that mean we ban all Sea-Rays because he parked his boat on the 14th green? Nope we sent him to jail for being an idiot, I am sure his wife also inflicted some monetary pain on him too.
Kind of funny, several years ago the Nebraska Game and Parks were fielding numerous complaints that there were too many canoes on our 22 miles of scenic Niobrara river. Get that too many Canoes!!! Not noise, to many frigging canoes!!!! Now they are complaining that canoes are no longer a problem but inner tube are??? I still go and canoe it twice a year but now we do it on a Sunday instead of Saturday. That way we avoid the crowed. They can still have their fun and we still have ours.
If you want to limit what happens on your lake maybe you should live on a private lake? I am not trying to be an ass either, I considered a lot at Lake Panorama in Central Iowa which is a large private lake. you have to own property to use it, check it out
http://www.lakepanorama.org/memberinfo.html
If you live on a public lake then you should understand that the public gets to use it how they see fit. I don't relish the bass boats at 5:30 AM running up and down the lake but that is part of living on a PUBLIC body of water. If I want to get away from the public I go out to the farm and sit in the middle of the 200 acres and it's real peaceful.
But hey those thoughts are just an opinion..and you know what they say....
