New Dive Location?

[birchhaven]

Originally Posted by AC2717

Is there any drawing of the proposed plan?

side note: the city is good at getting people to pay for things, maybe the can widen the docks so you can fit more than two boats inbetween the slips to utilize the whole slip

Not to derail the conversation before it even gets started but Laconia could apply for a BIG grant and get 200k or more to fix the docks (this is available every year for NH). They just chose not to and they are aware it exists. Tier 2 is also available yearly but goes up to several million dollars. This is federal money.

To my knowledge, no one in NH has ever taken advantage of it. They were trying to get fish and game to administer it but looks like they settled on DES.

https://www.des.nh.gov/organization/.../big-grant.htm

[Grant]

I read the subject line for this thread and got all excited about a potential new dive site. As in SCUBA.

Oh well.

[FlyingScot]

I would assume that the Weirs docks that already exist are only possible because of some sort of grandfathering. Does The Dive believe that somehow there is an endless amount of square footage that the town can add? This is the latest of their interesting ideas that seem half-baked when taken from the oven.

I hope shore things can offer insight here.

[Biggd]

I would prefer they do the docks over and add space for more boats to visit the boardwalk. I think it would benefit the area more than a new dock for the Dive, JMO.

[ishoot308]

While I am a proponent of the Dive, I am curious how this would affect the current dock space at the Weirs...

In the past if you were visiting the dive at a sand bar you would anchor and swim to or get dropped off then anchor and swim to the dive.

Would boaters visiting the dive now utilize all the Weirs dock space allowing no space for boats visiting other establishments at the Weirs??

Just thinking out loud...

Dan

[ApS]

Originally Posted by ishoot308

While I am a proponent of the Dive, I am curious how this would affect the current dock space at the Weirs...

In the past if you were visiting the dive at a sand bar you would anchor and swim to or get dropped off then anchor and swim to the dive.

Would boaters visiting the dive now utilize all the Weirs dock space allowing no space for boats visiting other establishments at the Weirs??

Just thinking out loud...

Dan

If clientele were required to swim to The Dive, overcrowding would be reduced, and every customer well-rinsed!

Certainly an improvement over every other restaurant.

[fatlazyless]

Originally Posted by ApS

If clientele were required to swim to The Dive, overcrowding would be reduced, and every customer well-rinsed!

Certainly an improvement over every other restaurant.

There still exists a good number of island cottages and mainland cottages that get "Lake Winnipesaukee" flowing out of their kitchen and bathroom faucet when they turn on their water faucet.

The water in Lake Winnipesaukee is the direct source of water for the City of Laconia, located in Paugus Bay.

When The Dive goes spuds down into a sandbar, it attracts boater-adult beverage customers who are want to pee in the lake, or even worse, while swimming back to their own boat. You know that old saw ..... when you gotta go ..... you gotta go ..... and you know happens with drinking adult beverages.

And, the State of NH is not an unbiased agency with regard to this lake water pollution because every single ounce of adult beverage is purchased at a NH state liquor store. While the State of Pennsylvania has closed all their Penn state liquor stores during this coronavirus pandemic, the NH state liquor stores remain open, probably because it generates a lot of revenue for NH. So, the State of NH is both the pollution enforcement agency and the adult beverage supplier to The Dive, at the same time.

[WinnisquamZ]

Originally Posted by Biggd

I would prefer they do the docks over and add space for more boats to visit the boardwalk. I think it would benefit the area more than a new dock for the Dive, JMO.

Agree they should be replaced. However, if you were to replace them, bringing them up to today’s standards and requirements would cost more then 200k.


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