Boating Safety on NH Water Bodies

[jrc]

Given the wind on Sunday. I was amazed how many boats were out. The Glendale area was packed and the Meredith docks area was also crowded.

Lots of small boats out on a day that the wind would have made me nervous. Plus it's getting hard to see some of those markers in the chop. Why are some so short?

Lots of people seem to forget to follow the rules of the road when you are in a no wake area. I had a bow rider almost t-bone me at idle speed near the Meredith docks. Then a Baja crosses within two feet of my stern, I know the 150' rule doesn't apply at idle but leave a little room for error.

Monday was a slower day than I expected. The West Alton sandbar still had space around noon. The water is still too darn cold.

[OCDACTIVE]

Originally Posted by jrc

Given the wind on Sunday. I was amazed how many boats were out. The Glendale area was packed and the Meredith docks area was also crowded.

Lots of small boats out on a day that the wind would have made me nervous. Plus it's getting hard to see some of those markers in the chop. Why are some so short?

Lots of people seem to forget to follow the rules of the road when you are in a no wake area. I had a bow rider almost t-bone me at idle speed near the Meredith docks. Then a Baja crosses within two feet of my stern, I know the 150' rule doesn't apply at idle but leave a little room for error.

Monday was a slower day than I expected. The West Alton sandbar still had space around noon. The water is still too darn cold.

I thought it was great to see the amount of boats out on the lake this weekend. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. Given a few new boaters or maybe even some older boaters need a refresher course and have the cobwebs removed, but all in all most people were very courtious out there.

I personally enjoyed the wind. On my way over to visit another winni.com member I had to cross from Barber's Pole to Welch Island. There were some very nice rollers out there.. 2-4 footers.. I ate them up no problem but there were a few people out there that probably had bitten off more then they could chew.

I agree although you may be adhering to the letter of the law, common sense goes a mile. As an example when crossing under the Long Island bridge. I was behind a few boats. The second they felt they were 150 feet from the bridge they took off. Although legal they aren't giving any thought to the numerous boats rafted off to their right that now have to deal with their wakes. (yes thats right boats make larger wakes the slower they are going when plaining off ) I always try to wait until I am closer to the red marker much further out. This way you don't disturb someone else's great day.

My only pet peave this weekend really was the amount of people that would be in a narrow channel and are clueless to those behind them. On several occassions people just stopped for no reason, or changed course, or just cut right out. Please be aware of those behind you who are also crusing and may not have the same interest in a duck that you want to look at.

Common sense and courtesey go a very long way so that laws don't need to be added.

[jmen24]

Originally Posted by jrc

The water is still too darn cold.

Hogwash, it wasn't bad after a minute or two.

I will agree that the wind and waves were big, we were in a 26 ft bowrider and some of those waves were timed just right to get a bunch of spray over the bow. That was the only day this weekend that I was out. propably contributed to the slow day, but my cousin was out on Saturday as well and noted that things were slow.

[jrc]

I went in the water every day this weekend, except Sunday. It was brisk but as Jmen says not too bad after a minute or two, that's how long it takes to go numb

I used to tolerate the 2-4 rollers with my bow rider, the wife hated them. Once we stuffed the bow on Dad's cuddy so deep I though we would never come up. It never boring on Winnipesaukee