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Originally Posted by Silver Duck
I've been waiting for this since certain of the "No performance boats" crowd made it clear a couple of years ago that cruisers were to be their next target.
So far as I'm concerned, the question which truly begs to be asked is where some folks get off thinking that their convenience in enjoying Lake Winnipesaukee in their chosen manner outweighs the ability of other folks to enjoy the lake in a diferent way.  |
You and I frequent the same cabin cruiser website where complaints between GFBLs and cabin cruisers are frequent. (And where the seaplane crash was referenced.)
Just this month at that site, the cabin cruisers are complaining of noisy, late-night, high-speed runs by GFBLs through no-wake zones where the cruiser types are sleeping. The GFBLs state "their legal right" to boat in anything they want to, and that their wakes are small. The cabin cruisers complain about fishermen, kayakers, and Jet-Skis in narrow channels. The GFBLs state wakes left by cruisers at any planing speed are a hazard to them, and that cruisers ignore no-wake zones until inside their marinas.
When I opened my
Popular Science magazine this month, I found a full-page ad for
"Discover Boating".
What a strange ad, I thought—who needs to "discover" boating
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The site is sponsored nationally by NMMA (American boat builders) who are seeing
an increasing rejection of family boating by Americans! 
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Originally Posted by Paugus Bay Resident
The fact is, people are entitled to have whatever kind of boat they want on the lake.
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"Entitlement" seems to be an issue: Winnipesaukee boaters with long memories remember when
none of these issues were prominent.
The bottom line is that a few "excessive boats" are ruining boating for many—and not just here.
