[Airwaves]

Originally posted by Islander
Suppose a GFBL makes it a habit of going 90 mph around the lake. How many times per day will this be reported to the Marine Patrol? How long will it be before the Marine Patrol start looking for this boat?

That’s a very good question, as a matter of fact your good friend Bear Islander can probably answer it since he posted;

Originally posted by Bear Islander
Boats go through the NWZ at high speed, full speed , ludicrous speed, whatever you can imagine.
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The most common violator is a very large cruise boat that passes more than once a day. I will not guess at its speed, but I have seen boats being overtaken by it have to go full throttle, in the NWZ, to get out of its way.

Then I posted the following as a suggestion since if that happened to me I would certainly be ticked off!

Originally posted by Airwaves
Just a thought, but it that's a problem out in front of your place, and since I beleive you already have a webcamera in operation, why not point it in a direction that would catch the violation on the web, and at an angle that would show the violator's bow number and/or boat name. I'd be willing to be that if you had these violations on tape and the MP could track them down a visit by a law enforcement officer would help your situation.

Then Bear Islander posted a response via VtSteve (BI doesn’t post responding directly to me any longer since I was so bold as to bring his credibility into question after he claimed time and again not to have posted something that he wrote and he denied it so BI took his bat and ball and went home

Originally posted by Bear Islander
I'm surprised you people are surprised. I suppose I have seen it for so many years it doesn't surprise me anymore. PWCs go through full speed the most, we don't even blink when they do it. I'm sure some have no idea it's a NWZ. One beautiful Cigarette (a real one) would go through at about 90. I thought maybe he was clueless. Then I found out he was from Cooks Point. That is within sight, so he must have known about the NWZ.

We had a neighbor that would throw tennis ball at them, but he is gone now.

A have a few videos but you can't read bow numbers from that distance. I have been thinking of setting a camera up with motion detection. Take a picture of every boat that goes through.

So Islander, that’s a long way to say that you folks that say you have problems with speeding boats don’t have a track record of reporting them!!!!!

Call the Marine Patrol and even if they don't show up you will have a record! In BIs case he knows where one of the offenders docks...yet he certainly didn't say he did anything about it!

I’ll betcha the only thing that gets reported if this bill becomes law is the continued 150 foot violation…but gee, isn’t that already law? BTW, they are NOT going to put a radar post at the NWZ near Bear Island