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Originally Posted by Acres per Second
A fair question.
The MPs, who seem most enthusiastic when enforcing sailboat registrations, haven't been exactly handing out reports like candy. I've never seen a single-solitary Marine Patrol report in all my years on Winnipesaukee!
The only official MP report I've ever seen on-line alleged:
"New Hampshire lakes had the highest number of accidents per acre per 1000 registered boats."
On the US' most dangerous lake -- they reduced its accident rate by half over the last four years.
However, in the same four years, they increased their fatality rate by triple! (Severity of their accidents are on the increase).
'Couldn't be speed, could it?
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Once again conjecture quoted as fact. Actual, complete quote: "One source has estimated New Hampshire leads the nation in accidents per acre of water and per 1,000 boats registered."
Key words here, "One source" and "estimated". Seems to me a statement like this would be easy to verify, why hasn't this been done? Because it's probably not true. Why don't these posters tell the whole story? The truth simply does not support their arguments as shown again and again right here in these posts, if you read carefully.
If you don't read this post carefully, it almost looks like the most "dangerous lake" is Winnipesaukee when in fact it is some lake almost 1000 miles away. Still looking for some real, valid support for the speed limit, none to be found.