Can I put out my own marker???

[NightWing]

Originally Posted by Little Bear

Nightwing, I never suggested that he put the raft further than practical (although I have yet to see the specific rule that you infer reference to, except that it cannot be a hazard to navigation). However, even if he put it 50' out, that would technically give him another 150' buffer from the raft location - perfectly within his legal rights.

I agree with the effective buffer zone. My cautionary note was intended to enlighten anyone who believed they could extend their "shorefront rights" (LOL) and keep boats away just by putting a swim raft or two out as a deterrent to boat traffic. That, of course, is commandeering part of a public body of water for private interests and it is not allowed.

[Rattlesnake Guy]

I am trying to remember if I have ever actually seen a human being on a swim platform. Nope can't remember a single one. Many must be for traffic control.

[Mink Islander]

Originally Posted by NightWing

I agree with the effective buffer zone. My cautionary note was intended to enlighten anyone who believed they could extend their "shorefront rights" (LOL) and keep boats away just by putting a swim raft or two out as a deterrent to boat traffic. That, of course, is commandeering part of a public body of water for private interests and it is not allowed.

Commandeering a public body of water? Are you kidding? Everytime someone puts in a legal dock, mooring or raft into the lake, they create a "150 ft rule" buffer in the lake that wasn't there before. That's all. They didn't take it away from you; they altered its use ever so slightly. So what if you have to stay a little further out from shore for safety's sake when you're speeding along. You have issues with that? You're concerned that shore front owners might put moorings and rafts in front of their houses to "commandere" the lake from you? Some sneaky effort to privatize the lake shoreline? My eyes well up just thinking about what a horrible stripping of your "rights" this constitutes.

Is it lost on you that you can still troll by at headway speed in this buffer zone? -- even between the raft and shore -- fishermen do that all the time. You can still do everything you always could in a public body of water except you can't go screaming by on plane within 150 ft of an area clearly identifiable as somewhere people frequently swim. Again, my eyes dampen at the unbearable hardship this must create for you...those selfish landowners, tsk tsk

It's hardly "extending shoreline rights" to put a raft in the lake even if the true motive is to push fast boat traffic a little further off-shore. It's our right as shorefront land owners to put in rafts (and moorings) so long as we're not creating a navigation hazard and otherwise meet the state's requirements. It makes good safety sense too. I'm hoping you agree.

[SBC]

Guess Mink didn't see the humor, ie the LOL in your reply there Nightwing. Geez Louise some folks it mighty riled.

Here's a note of interest:
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/...270/270-26.htm and then this one too: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/...0/270-26-b.htm