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It has been a long belief of mine due to reading it somewhere some long time ago, that each town surrounding the lake is to have public access to the lake for launching of boats. This was never really a problem when marinas would allow the public to use their ramps.
Now cities/towns like Laconia do not have public access to the lake as the marinas have closed down public use of their ramps unless it is a regular customer of theirs, and they are hiding behind the notation that regular customers of theirs fall under the operations of public use therefore compling with state rules.

According to the state, in order to have marina status, Marinas are supposed to meet 5 out of 7 items in order to be considered a marina and one of those items is public use of launching facilities. Again they are using the idea that they let regular customers only use thier ramps maybe and they comply with public access. I believe those items are: ship store/docks/public access/fuel/pump out/repair/docking - could be wrong on one or two of these, when I looked at this when all the marinas started droping access nad the Watermark Marine was being built (yes they have marina status), my thoughts are foggy on the topic and I need to refresh them. I had asked the Laconia Daily Sun, and the Weirs Times multiple times via email and calls to do a story or investigate this topic of all the loss of public access to the lake but no one took up the task, so it fell by my wayside as well.