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Originally Posted by Dave R
"...Even when everyone complies with the law, bad things happen..."
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Question: How much of Lake Winnipesaukee's floating debris, floating lumber, runoff, mud, erosion, waves, wakes, and stressed waterfront structures did you actually witness this past week?
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Originally Posted by Mee-n-Mac
"...*I'm remotivated to make a "Winni Wave-o-meter" to record wave and wake size and then do some tests to measure wake reduction vs distance. Then I can forward the data to Concord so they have something solid to base their decisions on..."
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The makings of a very sensitive "Winni Wave-O-Meter" is sitting on your dock!
(That being water-filled garbage cans.)
If you noticed, the wakes impacting your dock produce sympathetic concentric rings on the water's surface. The rings are most intense towards the center and will sometimes send up a jet of water!
To take advantage of those rings, you can set up a low-mass float with a lever attached. This will transmit the vibrations to a suitable display to demonstrate the intensity of wake impacts. It can even record the exhaust pulses from a noisy boat—and before the boat comes into sight! (And why I've long-suggested a seismometer be used to measure exhaust noise).