New NWZ

Descant · 05-14-2022, 11:49 AM

Pig Island to Lockes Island is about 600 feet. Subtract 150 feet from each shoreline and it should be NWZ when two boats are present. Many who pass through there, of course were not at the narrowest point, so there was room to proceed without slowing down. Of course, when there were three boats...
Like many of our rules and laws, it really only comes in to play on busy traffic periods and is/was unnecessary at other times.
Some of the petitioners were concerned about wakes. I think it is just as likely that wakes will increase as boats slow and accelerate again. We'll see.

Weekend Pundit · 05-14-2022, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Descant

Pig Island to Lockes Island is about 600 feet. Subtract 150 feet from each shoreline and it should be NWZ when two boats are present. Many who pass through there, of course were not at the narrowest point, so there was room to proceed without slowing down.

I have traveled through the passage between Pig and Lockes Islands on plane more than a few times over the 30-some years I've out on the lake. But I have rarely gone through on plane when another boat has been in the passage. I have seen plenty of Cap'n Boneheads blow through there without maintaining proper distances. I have also seen a few bigger boats (Carvers) generate huge wakes through there that had boats tied up on Lockes Island slamming up against their docks when the wakes hit.

I have no problem with the extended NWZ in that area. I hope it will bring a little more sanity to the traffic passing through there...and that the Marine Patrol will enforce it with vigor.

chachee52 · 05-15-2022, 08:56 AM

That used to be a marked NWZ back in the day. I remember I was about 12-14 yo when they took it out. The MP actually pulled me and my dad over cause my dad was teaching me to look for the buoys and I was slowing down with the bow up. We chatted with him explaining we were looking around and then he remembered that it was a new deletion.
If you don't like the NWZ, go around the other side of Locke. Not that big of an island.

Weekend Pundit · 05-31-2022, 03:56 PM

I was out with my son and some family friends early Sunday evening and both on the way out and back in to Glendale I saw at least a half dozen boats blowing right through the new NWZ. (One even blew past the inner NWZ marker that's been there for years and didn't come off plane until just before the entrance into Smith Cove at buoy 55.)

I still think the new NWZ buoy that is presently just east of Pig Island and south of the passageway should be moved to the north because it is easy to miss when approaching from the east.

05-31-2022, 03:56 PM	#4
Weekend Pundit Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Gilford Posts: 362 Thanks: 26 Thanked 70 Times in 43 Posts	Blew Right Through I was out with my son and some family friends early Sunday evening and both on the way out and back in to Glendale I saw at least a half dozen boats blowing right through the new NWZ. (One even blew past the inner NWZ marker that's been there for years and didn't come off plane until just before the entrance into Smith Cove at buoy 55.) I still think the new NWZ buoy that is presently just east of Pig Island and south of the passageway should be moved to the north because it is easy to miss when approaching from the east.

05-14-2022, 11:49 AM	#1
Descant Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Merrimack and Welch Island Posts: 4,481 Thanks: 1,393 Thanked 1,667 Times in 1,086 Posts	Pig Island to Lockes Island is about 600 feet. Subtract 150 feet from each shoreline and it should be NWZ when two boats are present. Many who pass through there, of course were not at the narrowest point, so there was room to proceed without slowing down. Of course, when there were three boats... Like many of our rules and laws, it really only comes in to play on busy traffic periods and is/was unnecessary at other times. Some of the petitioners were concerned about wakes. I think it is just as likely that wakes will increase as boats slow and accelerate again. We'll see.

05-15-2022, 08:56 AM	#3
chachee52 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Gilford, NH Posts: 483 Thanks: 6 Thanked 97 Times in 76 Posts	That used to be a marked NWZ back in the day. I remember I was about 12-14 yo when they took it out. The MP actually pulled me and my dad over cause my dad was teaching me to look for the buoys and I was slowing down with the bow up. We chatted with him explaining we were looking around and then he remembered that it was a new deletion. If you don't like the NWZ, go around the other side of Locke. Not that big of an island.

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