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Originally Posted by jrc
"...Secondcurve, we agree 100% on this..."
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As
I do—although "staying off the lake" has an implication to summertime kayaking with which I
don't agree.
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Originally Posted by jrc
"...On plowing he dismisses Island Girls safety concerns, on the basis that the plowing tradition has been going on for years. On fast boats, he doesn't make the same deference to the Winnipesaukee tradition of fast boats. The picture is evidence of the tradition of fast boats...."
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Traditional Plowing:
The plowing done 70+ years ago involved moving timber, houses, block-ice, bob houses, barns, provisions, cars, dairy products, sleighs, horses and oxen across the lake to other towns. Years ago, my own shoreline was bolstered with boulders delivered across the ice by dumptruck. In the old Winnipesaukee tradition, there never was a plowing hazard to snowmobiles
because there weren't any snowmobiles!
Traditional boats:
Fiberglass is impact-resistant, and that's why it is used for bumper-car construction. Boats made of wood are strong and lightweight, but impact resistance is not among wood's strengths. To put it another way, the builder of a boat constructed of mahogany would take the same operating precautions as the builder of a
snowmobile constructed from mahogany!
I can't recall any hit-and-run incidents involving wood boats.
Here's a suggestion:
A page could be taken from our legislator-friends in New Jersey:
Our LFOD state could mandate that large orange flags be planted every 17 feet on every mound of plowed-up snow, pressure ridges, drifted-up snow, bob houses, pickup trucks, and parked snowmobiles! (Or....snowmobile operators could just maintain a proper watch.)
Until there are 70-mph snowmobiles weighing 4˝-tons, snowmobiles present a monster of their own making.