Weirs Beach Seaplane Proposal

[Descant]

Boat chop in the area is mostly from Buoy #1 to the town docks and channel entrance. As you go north to Meredith, it dissipates and becomes more unidirectional. Prevailing wind is from the Northwest. Heading out from the Winnipesaukee Pier and going to Maiden Lady Cove, there are two black spars that would keep boats off shore. Draft for an airplane is very shallow and they can, perhaps, stay inside the buoys. The more wind, the fewer recreational boats are on the water, and take-off and landing distances headed NW are reduced.

In my mind, anybody with experience has looked at all these issues in far more detail than the posters on this site. Having said that, I have to agree that this location can be very congested, and more than most places on Winnipesaukee, has a higher concentration of inexperienced and rental boat captains than other areas.

[fatlazyless]

For people on the Weir Beach boardwalk and the Weirs sandy beach, watching a float plane doing take-offs and landings will add a highly visible, fun-to-watch, and exciting happening every time the float plane flies in or out. It could become a signature event at the Weirs and add a new dramatic twist for the lakeside crowds to watch.

Here it comes, there it is, it's coming in for a landing, the plane ..... the plane .... the plane! .....

The white and green float plane by-the-way is a De Havilland Beaver, built by De Havilland Aircraft in Calgary, Alberta, Canada a long time ago in 1952, so it is age 71 or 72, and still flying.

I'm sure the six Laconia city councilors and the mayor will all give this float plane attraction the consideration that it deserves and will consider everything and do their best to actually make it happen. Five years down the road, they will be pleased they give this float plane, Weirs attraction ,a fair shake to give it a go and come up with a safe plane plan to make it a well known Weirs Beach coming and going attraction.

Here's a different interesting video showing the world famous De Havilland Beaver in flight, vintage 1950's ........ www.youtube.com/watch?v=whGBUV8eg-A ..... just picture that at the Weirs!

[pondguy]

One word comes to mind--Dangerous.

[TomC]

you mean like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jbxQFBKgUw

[Shreddy]

Here we go again, I'm just going to go grab my popcorn

[ITD]

Cool, can’t wait to take a ride.

[pondguy]

Let's all sit back and watch. Shreddy pass the popcorn please.