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Originally Posted by madrasahs
Sure, I'll volunteer for the Marine Patrol, but that website is "under construction." Got a better URL?
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First things first; State of NH web site -- this takes you to the Seasonal Help PDF for the Marine Patrol (at least while their site is under construction).
http://www.state.nh.us/safety/ss/seasonalmarine.pdf
This takes you to their employment page:
http://www.state.nh.us/safety/ss/eo.html and this is for the application:
http://www.state.nh.us/safety/ss/employmentapp.html. Even for seasonal help you have to go through all the testing etc. (better be safe than sorry, I guess).
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Originally Posted by madrasahs
Boaters won't believe how their noise travels across water.
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Have to agree to disagree with you here. If you venture out to the area on the South side of Timber any given Sunday in the summer season you'll see Marine Patrol and a number of boats that are having a DB test that day. Noise does travel FAR across the water. When I sit on my porch at night I can just about hear every word the people in the boat on the other side of the bay are saying, sounds like they're right in front of me. But that's also when everyone and everything is asleep and the world is quiet, so any noise will sound amplified. Mind you, they can hear me too.
Labor day on the lake - don't know how you could depict one noise from another - this is vacation / tourist country and they are what make up a good portion of the economy around the lake, for the shop owners and such. So I welcome them, boats, motorcycles, SUV's, Horses and all... I may not like it all the time, but NH has this big beautiful lake and lots of big beautiful mountains. Would you rather we barricade them off so only the people who are registered voters here can enjoy them???? Without sufficient industry in the Lakes region (other than tourism) the residents would not have the employment they need. Those of us who are not retired still need to earn a living and without tourism we wouldn't have all the conveniences we have (no dunkin donuts, no mickey D's, don't know if we could even justify a Walmart (sorry fatlazyless). Geez - go to the
LINKS on this web site and just look at all the things listed under
Attractions. Are they here just for us voters - I think not, after going to the Polar Caves or Storyland a few times -- I'm tapped. So my patronage is certainly not going to pay to keep these places open and for the people to work there.
As long as the demand is there and boat manufacturers will build them (gas powered boats) people will buy them. It's always been that way -- even back in the day of the old wooden boats, with straight through exhaust, were the thing to have on this great lake of ours(now that's trespassing isn't it?).
Do you realize that some of these are actually peoples weekend/vacation homes, people that for whatever reason choose to spend their time on their boat right now -- maybe there's a point later in time where they will buy real estate, but for now they love the lake and want to be on it, and this is a great way to do it.