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Originally Posted by Acres per Second
an over-loud, oversized, white/maroon/white boat toured the lake this morning [Friday] at 6AM.
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If you took that same boat, put in on a trailer in your yard, put the ear-muffs on it and ran it at 6 am it would certainly be considered disturbing the peace. Why isn't it when the boat is in the water? Seriously, what's the difference?
Many years ago I rented a cottage on a cove for 3 weeks. Every morning at 6 the inconsiderate people across the cove would start up their Sutphen (through the hull exhausts pointed directly at our cottage), warm it up for 5 minutes at high RPM, then blast off to get coffee. The sound of it starting up was so shocking my kids would wake up screaming and it no doubt disturbed hundreds of other vacationers who were hoping to sleep later than 6. This really ruined our vacation and created lots of stress and frustration in my household. One of my guests was so sick of being shaken out of bed they confronted the owner when they saw the boat docked at Meredith. The response? "Hey, we look forward to this all year". They really didn't see the problem and were at it again the next morning.
I just don't get why people aren't embarrassed to disturb so many people. It must be how you are raised. When I take my small boat (IO, through the prop exhaust) out early I don't even start it until the lines are untied so I can quickly move away with a minimum of noise. I'll run at idle until I'm several hundred feet away. Even then I'm always concerned that I may have disturbed someone.
Sorry to rant but very noisy boats are my pet peave.