Unsafe Boating - the real issue

[ApS]

Improvement #3:

Today's registration fees are anachronistic.

I pay more for a 16-foot sailboat (low-impact) than my smaller powerboat (high-impact). Winnipesaukee's unpowered sailboats were once registration-free, although most probably don't recall that.

If I buy Ellen MacArthur's new, but used-up trimaran sailboat (about to complete circling the globe in 72 days, non-stop, solo), it won't be the first 75-foot boat on Winnipesaukee. But it will be the first 75-foot-WIDE boat on Winnipesaukee.

Now add the required 150-foot buffer fore, aft, and to each side. (Remember that this buffer travels with the boat).

Even with scant wind velocity, my new trimaran will be using up nearly two acres of the Lake's precious boating acres: Even more area when really travelling.

A new fee-schedule needs to be derived: A formula that takes into account the surface area of the Lake that an individual boat "uses up" -- not simply boat length, which always remains static.

(Try L x HP x W).

Length X Horsepower X Width will adjust the MP's enforcement budget appropriately, too.

Even more creative enhanced-fee schedules are out there.



#1 was Education enhancement.
#2 was Registration numbers-enhancement.
#3 is Registration Fee enhancement.