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Originally Posted by ITD
"...the lake is so large that people who want to misbehave will still have plenty of space to misbehave in and not get caught.
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Allow misbehaving? On, say,
weekends?
If you've been around awhile, this lake is definitely getting smaller with every season, even
off-site boat storage is filling up.
Also, the lake gets smaller as the boats get faster. The 150-foot rule is insufficient for offshores. (The same rule my saiboat has to observe -- go figure.)
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Originally Posted by ITD
"It almost sounds as though you are for tax increases as long as someone else pays it. Why not an across the board fee increase borne by all NH boaters?
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Because my two "non-horsepower" boat registrations
are subsidizing the rightful enforcement of "horsepowered" boats!
Think of the Jet-Skis, the rafters, and the family boaters that use up all the MP's time. Add in the facts that sailboats don't pollute the air, don't "hang-out", don't foul the water, add no MtBE, don't violate noise regulations, don't overturn small boats with their wakes, and don't erode the shoreline.
No,
horsepower needs to be taxed -- not the boats that are powered by paddle, battery, or the wind -- exclusively. (New Hampshire will happily register your canoe -- they just don't tell you it's
unnecessary.)
Which is not to say that my sailboat hasn't been stopped by the MPs -- it has -- twice. (MPs -- and the "Boater's Handbook" itself -- show little regard for sailboats.
The first stop wasn't pretty. The 2nd stop was just wrong on the law. Fortunately, I carry a letter from Director Barrett
(thanks, Dir. Barrett) acknowledging that I know my boating RSAs.
Sailboats are an easy catch, I guess.
Why do they waste their time with us and
why are we paying a tax disproportionate to our effect on the lake?
Even it out -- support enforcement.
