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Originally Posted by Mee-n-Mac

Gee I thought I usually stated my reasons for disagreeing, didn't realize I was being so simplistic. Since you appreciate SM's clarity, I'd like to direct your (and other's) attention to his point about how HB-162 is not about protecting GFBL boaters from themselves. Next time anyone feels like dragging in some single boat accident not involving anyone else, breathe some fresh air instead.

A single boat accident always involves someone else -- passenger or hapless rescuer. A hapless Laconia rescuer is the most important reason we voted in the anti-"skimming" law of 2005.

You're not concerned for Heidi? ...at DonziRegistry.com?

"...I caught a big cruiser wake and did a little Superman act of my own. I think I scared Heidi a little, but she was a trooper and held on as beverage cans went flying all over the place. We made it to Weirs in no time flat..."

In disagreeing, I find myself reading reasons that either obfuscate, complicate, or merely "don't compute". I also don't understand defending a "Viva yo" attitude on Winnipesaukee, either. (Viva yo is "HOORAY FOR ME!" noted by author James Michener in Iberia)

Winnipesaukee's quaint 150-foot rule is now obsolete -- made so by "Progress": (Multiple 1100-HP engines, and still counting...).

It's not just horsepower:

It's not illegal to have a DVD screen mounted in the dashboard -- next to the GPS and radar screens, twenty gauges, multiple throttles, trim controls, radio, tilt controls, VHF, and stereo controls. It's not illegal to "drive" using one's feet. You can carry six cases of beer on board (or vodka, the odorless choice of speedboaters). Or, as I pointed out earlier, a shotgun or Beretta. Will these beer-swillers be voting against a speed limit? You can legally mount cruise-control on your boat, for those too-long stretches across the Broads to the Naswa. Until last year, boaters could leave the scene of one's injurious- and death-causing Winnipesaukee collisions -- and not go to prison. You can travel at 150-MPH if you want.

You never cleared up "TUNNEL VISION" -- a concept that no Opponent has acknowledged here.

When a boater races along at 60MPH, there is only one boat on the water. Why? Because his attention is only forward: Instant Captain "B".

You may not have noticed that every photograph I took this summer near krwxcr700 had the "drivers" having to stand and look directly forward. (That is, when they and their passengers could see over the bow at all). Should a smaller boat approach from afar, it will be ignored UNTIL IT GETS TOO CLOSE. This is the "Instant Captain B" concept. Captain "B" is oblivious to the lesser "stand-on" boat and unintentionally fails to acknowledge its importance. It's krwxcr700, you'll recall, who alleges -- to borrow Wordsy's synonym for mendacity -- to have been "buzzed" by speedboaters while fishing.

That's why the 150-foot rule has become obsolete -- and hugely unenforced -- on Lake Winnipesaukee.

Lake George's speed limit is due to never having had a "150-foot rule" to enforce! 'You suppose Lake George boaters viewed 150-MPH boats -- or 4½ ton speedboats -- as a hazard? Should they have instituted a 150-foot rule instead? I don't theenk so....

New Hampshire is now having to play its usual catch-up legislative game.

You don't know you can buy a BMW sedan with 500+ HP off the showroom floor that will do 200-MPH? ...On American roads? Or that Mercedes offered a 600-HP sedan this year in response? At least Porsche offers driving schools for Americans who buy Porsches: Porsches, which are electronically-governed to speed along at "only" 155-MPH. Or that new 115-foot yacht offered today that will do 57-MPH?

On inland protected waters, I call this wretched excess.

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Here are a few of your arguments -- the first not so much simplistic as self-indulgent:

"...given that rules are preferential to kayaks and sailboats, I have a better chance of making it to the dock today with the 1000 PWCs..."

And I did leave out obfuscatory parts:

So I call a registration fee a tax, you can call it a poodle if you wish.

or,

Will they be Chihuahuas next year ?

To this day, I remain confused and unclear on the above quotes, and evermore appreciative of Clarity.