Years ago, maybe even decades at this point, when MADD was changing the way people thought about drunk driving I remember asking a Marine Patrol officer at an event we were at if NH was considering an open container law for the lake. At the time he told me no and the reason was quite simple. He says every one of those large cruisers out on the lake are likely to have a bar or makeshift bar on board. In that bar will be liquor bottles with the seals broken. It simply is not feasible to enforce a law like that.
Now, as I said it was decades ago, maybe the law has changed I don't know. I do know that when I am operating a boat my beverage of choice is bottled water but that does not stop my passengers from having a beer or two while we're anchored. Drinking much of anything underway can be a little rough at times.
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