Couple of comments here. Codeman & Lakegeezer are correct. Most boats exceeding 45 mph or more is leaving very little wake, certainly not enough to do alot of rocking, a speed limit will not help LBR LAW"S problem. However, as many have said myself included, its not speed but common courtesy & obeying the 150' rule. Who knows maybe the boats rocking LBR LAW were 150' or more away, you can still get rocked at that distance.
Secondly Bear Islander confirmed my believe & opinion & I've said it in prior posts. Bear Islander said very few boats exceed 60 mph. I'll take it one step further. The majority of boats I see on the lake are not capable of exceeding 50 mph. The few boats that are capable is a very very small number & it is seldom that I see those that are capable traveling at speeds exceeding 60, 70 mph (only a guess, I don't have radar) but certainly no where near the speeds that the speed limit supporters claim is taking over the lake like 80,90 or 100 mph.
Out on the lake this past Friday, Saturday & Sunday the vast majority of the boats I saw were smaller runabouts in the 18' to 24' range & saw several instances where boats passed if not less than 150' very close to it. None of those instances were close to causing a collision. While there was never a time that I saw on the lake this weekend that would be considered crowded there was alot of activity from what I would call the smaller boat crowd. I don't see how the speed limit supporters can say people are afraid to use the lake. You could have fooled me this weekend.
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