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Originally Posted by throttleman
Your boat description sounds like a small 21' Donzi--hardly an ocean going "offshore".
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Can't say. Its
nose reached the third floor level of a McMansion across the way. (Offshores have
noses at the pointy-end).
It was a heck of a wave it hit, though. Wish it could have been called a
rogue wave, but every high-water June weekend, dock surfaces around here get swept by the wakes of passing "ocean-appropriate" cruisers -- indifferently loaded.
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Originally Posted by throttleman
Based on your misleading thread title...
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'Wasn't for lack of trying. About noon on the 14th, my "brand-new, new" thread, moved
to "Boating"
from "General Discussion", and re-titled
One Take on Offshores?
It got "fixed".
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Originally Posted by throttleman
I was expecting to read an article about a horrific accident.
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Disappointments abound. No horrific accident occurred, just a boat sunk by drunks -- it's not the offshore season yet anyway.
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Originally Posted by throttleman
This offshore issue has been argued and debated over and over for the past several years with the same viewpoints, perspective, and comments...
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Well, not exactly. New is the admonition that we live on an essentially
residential lake, where quality of air, water, noise, wildlife, (and life itself) is important.
Also new is that a boat that consumes one gallon of gasoline-per-minute is
not a gas-guzzler.
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Originally Posted by Paugus Bay Resident
"Let's all be grateful we have such a lofty authority looking over our lake."
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"Looking over" Winnipesaukee is a lofty responsibility.
Dealers in offshore-going boats should not be that authority, IMO. (But they pay lobbyists very well to remain so, now, don't they?)
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Originally Posted by throttleman
If the past several months of calm and serenity on the forum have bored you, maybe you should spend more time perusing the archives...
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Backyard chicken recipe-swapping! Yesss!