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Originally Posted by Acres per Second
Well, I've managed to stay away for 24 hours from this "educating the go-fasters" thread! It appears that just the suggestion of Tres Martin's high-speed boating school scared off all the Winnipesaukee go-fasters. (Talk about "Fear")!
Last week, Tres Martin himself famously wrote of this summer's go-fasts having "...all the weekend accidents". 
Next:
Somebody (meaning Mee'n'Mac), sees a speed problem on Lake Winnipesaukee!
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My, my, my what a tangled web you weave. No need for you to put words in my mouth, I can speak just fine thanks. First let's put straight why I suggested what I did. There seems to be a contingent of people who are afraid to boat on the lake. What exactly is at the root of this I can't say. However it certainly seems likely to me that one thing they could be worried about is whether the person at the helm of the boat type that scares them, is qualified to pilot a boat at that speed. OK I say, let me try to reassure you via a "high speed" license and certification and provisions to revoke that license should they be bad boys. I'm almost always been willing to put forth some extra effort to make somebody else feel better. Personally I have no doubt that any performance boater worth his/her salt would have any problem passing such a course and test.
Second, to correct your misstatement above, I really don't see a speed problem on the lake. In the last 5 years I can recall just 1 case at night where I thought a boater was travelling too fast (in the absolute sense). In all my 30+ years on the lake I don't recall ever being afraid because of someone going at "high" speed. I've seen lots of bonehead behavior at speeds under those per HB-162 and I really do believe we have a bonehead problem not a speed problem.