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Originally Posted by GWC...
Question: How many times have you and your friend been swamped while kayaking on Winnipesaukee? Reminder...
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GWC, I really don’t get why you feel that it is perfectly right to quote me out of context numerous times, by dredging up posts that I made over 3 years ago!
I don’t even get why you even used most of those quotes, since you didn’t even bother to comment on most of them.
If this is just another one of your lame attempts to discredit me on a public forum (which is such a cowardly act) why don’t you be a man, borrow a kayak, and try to follow me out on the main lake some time. I’ve put out that offer several times, but none of the speed limit opponents have had the guts to take me up on it yet.
Now it’s my turn to add the stuff you conveniently left out:
1.) With a kayak, being tipped over by a wake is not the same as being swamped by one. Swamping is when you take on water. On that particular occasion, we took on enough water that we had to paddle to a nearby island and bail out.
2.) You also failed to mention that I made that post over 3 years ago! And that this particular episode happen during the summer of 2003 –
before I had even bought my sea kayak. A sea kayak handles large waves and wakes much better than a recreational kayak.
In answer to your question: My friend and I have only paddled sea kayaks on Winni – so we’ve never really been swamped while kayaking there (some water from waves and wakes has entered our cockpits, but not enough to be what I would call “swamped.” We’ve never had to pump out our sea kayaks.)
Happy? And my statement that “I have never been tipped over by the wake of a powerboat” is completely true.
3.) I have never suggested that I a speed limit will solve all the problems or that one will make any lake feel totally safe, from all power boaters, 100% of the time. When you’re in a kayak and a powerboat is heading directly at you – you always wonder if the operator sees you. Many don’t, until they get fairly close, but others are just intentionally trying to scare us, and often succeed in doing so.
Just because some boaters violate current laws does not mean that we don’t need a lake speed limit. I have also stated many times (although not in these exact words) that an idiot at 90mph is much more dangerous than one at 45mph.
Now why don’t you get a life, or at leastr take up a hobby or something.