Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like a lot of floating rafts are set out in front of the waterfront homee with two purposes; one, as a swim raft, and two, as a protective buffer to keep moving boaters away from the shoreline area. It's a strategy that pretty much is successfull, too. Wood, aluminum, vinyl, and colorfull, trampolene style rafts get positioned to protect the nearby turf.
A proposal requiring NH Marine Patrol permits for rafts, similar to what exists for moorings, was initiated a year or two ago, and it died in the legislature. With the Marine Patrol director currently seeking to increase boat registration fees so's to help pay for MP operations, it just could be that an annual raft permit should be considered again?
Gee whiz....maybe I could get a job as the MP raft
inspector! First thing I'd do is I'd drive all over the lake and slap big fines on those ugly bright blue and yellow ugly trampolenes...for not blending....give em a not-blending ticket....if your raft does not look like an old gray, weathered lumber raft that been around since President Nixon, then you get a ticket
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