Loud Music from Boat

[DUSTOFF]

We bought a boat that happens to have a wakeboard tower and speakers on it. (I would have been happy without them, but got a great deal on this particular boat.)
I was tubing during one of our first trips out and I had my wife turn it up so I could hear it. Pretty cool!
Unfortunately I was raised with a sense of decency and common courtesy, so once I realized how loud it was from that distance, I disconnected the wires to the tower speakers. I can't in good conscience blast my music to the entire lake and shoreline.

Can I legally do it? Maybe...?
Would I feel like a disrespectful @$$**** doing it? Absolutely.

[ApS]

Some of us have retained their hearing...

So here we are, with the newest engines being manufactured to be quiet.

Originally Posted by Donzi Minx

From someone who was at the Stones concert in 1967 at Lynn Manning Bowl...... Cruised the lake for about 8 hours Sunday before heading back to Silver Sands, and without saying too much about music being too loud, I will say there is lots of diversity. My father Harvard Lawyer absolutely convulsed at Satisfaction which in 45RPM form, I wore out!
I really "do not enjoy" what my youngest blasts out on his I-phone, but as a boomer I will project some amount of tolerance. If everyone liked only Vanilla life would be pretty lackluster!

"Five flavors reigned supreme across the nation: Vanilla (of course)..."

"Lackluster" describes the vast majority of Winnipesaukee boaters, who don't blast their highly-objectionable lyrics to everyone within hearing distance.

Which include sailors, who much prefer the sounds of water lapping at the hull and the calls of Nature's creatures.

Originally Posted by hig

Calm yourself. You yourself said you wanted serene. Winnie is no longer serene. Just saying.

"Winnie" is serene, but you have to get up before 10-AM.

[hig]

Originally Posted by ApS

"Winnie" is serene, but you have to get up before 10-AM.

During the week maybe. The wakesurfers and skiers start around 8am where I am.

My point is that Winnipesaukee has changed. It is a very busy, noisy lake. And it will likely get worse since it attracts people looking for "lively"; people that are looking for serene will buy elsewhere. There are plenty of other lakes that are serene.

So you have a choice. Let it spoil your enjoyment and get bitter, or find a better fit for what you are looking for. Complaining on here won't fix it, the cat is well out of the bag. It will never be the lake that it was.

[SIKSUKR]

Damn.This has nothing to do with Winni being a "serene" lake or not.My comment goes for anywhere one happens to be.Its called comman courtesy.I would never force others to listen to "my" music,whatever that may be.Should I have to turn mine up to overcome yours or should I have to put earplugs in if I dont want to hear yours?No.If you need to hear loud music then put stinking earbuds in YOUR ears and blast away.Jeez,try thinking about others instead just yourselves.

[SAB1]

Winni still offers plenty of serene. Pretty much from Labor day through May there is plenty of it. While I agree with others that loud music is not needed and people should exercise a bit of caution/respect.........summer brings alot of fun and noise. If you haven't lived near one of the many camps on the lake you haven't experienced the counselors skiing at 6am before the campers get up, or the bugles at 7am waking the kids, its just all part of it and realistically it only a couple months of the year. Personally I'm a bit more concerned with all the weeds I see growing in the lake that weren't there before and all the geese that invading the lake.

[noreast]

^^^^You're right, But we can be aggravated by more than 1 thing at a time.

[rick35]

How about barking dogs? People in the next cove go out and leave their dog home. And it barks constantly. Another case of no consideration.

[NoBozo]

I guess many of you posters are just ..WELL...under fifty. I am 75 and remember there were statutes back in the day called .."Disturbing The Peace." That covered it.

You didn't need any Specific statute for loud parties, loud noise in your yard during a BBQ, a brawl on the Wolfeboro docks, wake boarding, or speakers on a boat.

Enforce the statutes that are On The Books...?? YUP.. Just Dreaming... NB

[SAB1]

Well I'm not 75 but turning 53 tomorrow and I do agree with you nobozo. Society has certainly changed and not for the better Imo. People just don't respect each other any more and Imo its parenting. When you and I grew up we learned to respect people and learned right from wrong. If you didn't you got your ass warmed up by dad. Now a days dad goes to jail for that. You never mouthed off to a cop either or you got your due.......from him or dad 5 min after he picked you up. Sorry to digress.....

[VitaBene]

There are many examples of a lack of common courtesy above and in other threads on this forum.

I know I don't always succeed , but I try to live by the golden rule... "Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you." – Isocrates (436–338 BC)