Hey rocks!!

SAB1 · 08-02-2020, 08:36 PM

Saw the same thing last week when paddle boarding. People heading southwest thru there on the left side of the blacks. bam! In all honestly you can’t help them. Anyone who can’t read or buy a map gets there due. Just like the knuckleheads that’s try to squeeze between Farm and the mainland.

Descant · 08-02-2020, 08:58 PM

And people want a lighthouse on the Witches where there are relatively few hits !! You need to name it some thing like "Dead Farmer's Gravesite".

chasedawg · 08-02-2020, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Descant

And people want a lighthouse on the Witches where there are relatively few hits !! You need to name it some thing like "Dead Farmer's Gravesite".

Ok great idea...I can name it but the MP.. Bizer or others have not helped me helping people others preventing damage to their boats and having a horrible experience. We tried red bottle floats and good old magaphones. My son used it when he was 10 years old He would see a boat heading the wrong way and would rush up to the camp to grab the magaphone and blast a horn and yell ... ROCKS. They just wave and get crunched.

Could I maybe get permission since red floating floats was not allowed maybe attach a flag to the no wake sign that says rocks here pointing down... no rocks the other way slow down!!.

Hillcountry · 08-02-2020, 10:53 PM

Why worry? It’s called natural selection

garysanfran · 08-02-2020, 11:21 PM

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Why worry? It’s called natural selection

Darwinian principle of weeding out the morons. You'd think over time their numbers would diminish. Somehow they reproduce. I don't boat on weekends.

tis · 08-03-2020, 04:49 AM

I suppose half of them make a wake even if they are on the correct side of the buoy right?

mhtranger · 08-03-2020, 06:07 AM

I think some video footage so we can all have a laugh. But on a serious note marine patrol should help out in some way I would think. As others have said shame on them for not knowing the markers or having a map.

DEJ · 08-03-2020, 06:38 AM

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But on a serious note marine patrol should help out in some way I would think. As others have said shame on them for not knowing the markers or having a map.

This same scenario happens all over the lake, not just in this area.
Marine Patrol has helped out in some way, they have installed black markers to warn boaters about the rocks in that area, not much else they can do. Boaters need to be aware of where they are and learn which side to pass markers depending on direction of travel.

08-02-2020, 08:36 PM	#1
SAB1 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Tuftonboro Posts: 1,230 Thanks: 188 Thanked 319 Times in 234 Posts	Saw the same thing last week when paddle boarding. People heading southwest thru there on the left side of the blacks. bam! In all honestly you can’t help them. Anyone who can’t read or buy a map gets there due. Just like the knuckleheads that’s try to squeeze between Farm and the mainland.

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Descant Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Merrimack and Welch Island Posts: 4,343 Thanks: 1,339 Thanked 1,621 Times in 1,053 Posts	And people want a lighthouse on the Witches where there are relatively few hits !! You need to name it some thing like "Dead Farmer's Gravesite".

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08-02-2020, 10:53 PM	#4
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08-03-2020, 06:07 AM	#7
mhtranger Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 130 Thanks: 321 Thanked 69 Times in 40 Posts	I think some video footage so we can all have a laugh. But on a serious note marine patrol should help out in some way I would think. As others have said shame on them for not knowing the markers or having a map.