Saturday Boating on Winnipesaukee

XCR-700 · 09-06-2022, 12:16 PM

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Originally Posted by thinkxingu

I'll go out any hour of any day, but will adjust my expectations and behaviors accordingly.

In fact, I've used the lake a lot this year to teach my kids the ol' "you can't control what happens, but you can control how you respond."

Of course, things'll ramp right down these next weeks...

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Well you will certainly be a better boater if you learn to survive a Saturday Summer outing on Winnipesaukee ;-)

Major · 09-06-2022, 12:49 PM

We went to the Paugus Bay (Margate) sand bar at 11:00 am. It was already very crowded! My son's dogs love it there so we had fun swimming and playing around. When we left at 1:30 pm, the sand bar was nearly fully crowded. So much so we pushed our boat out to open water.

The lesson learned over the past couple of years is that everyone needs to slow down a bit and be a little more deferential. Not a very profound take. The lake is so busy that just because you have the right of way doesn't mean you can take it. I am far less aggressive than I used to be. It also wouldn't hurt if the boaters who are towing their kids on rafts were a little more aware of their surroundings. (By far the most incidents I have is with boaters who are trying to throw their kids off the rafts.)

Saturdays are manageable, it just takes some patience.

chachee52 · 09-06-2022, 06:20 PM

Should have come to the Broads, pretty quiet day for such a nice day. On Sunday around 1pm cruised across from my friend's next to the Hole-in-the-Wall across the Broads and was shocked to only have to change my course because I came near a boat once. And that was a stretch of me being extra room kind. The last 2 weekends everyone around my camp were talking about how quiet it was out there.

Weirs always seems to attract the "I need to get no where fast" crowd. Can't tell you how many times I was pushed around by wakes going through the small no wake area at the point of Governor's Island because people were passing me this summer. Didn't seem to make a difference what day, just more so on weekends definitely.

dickiej · 09-07-2022, 12:17 AM

Is this what the broads looks like on Saturday.??

XCR-700 · 09-11-2022, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by dickiej

Is this what the broads looks like on Saturday.??

Can you imagine trying to navigate through that,,,

LakeTimes · 09-11-2022, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by XCR-700

Can you imagine trying to navigate through that,,,

Do every 4th of July... except it's at night.

Wouldn't feel safe with less than 3 sets of eyeballs on board!

09-06-2022, 12:49 PM	#2
Major Senior Member Join Date: May 2013 Location: Laconia Posts: 1,084 Thanks: 446 Thanked 1,020 Times in 426 Posts	Paugus Bay We went to the Paugus Bay (Margate) sand bar at 11:00 am. It was already very crowded! My son's dogs love it there so we had fun swimming and playing around. When we left at 1:30 pm, the sand bar was nearly fully crowded. So much so we pushed our boat out to open water. The lesson learned over the past couple of years is that everyone needs to slow down a bit and be a little more deferential. Not a very profound take. The lake is so busy that just because you have the right of way doesn't mean you can take it. I am far less aggressive than I used to be. It also wouldn't hurt if the boaters who are towing their kids on rafts were a little more aware of their surroundings. (By far the most incidents I have is with boaters who are trying to throw their kids off the rafts.) Saturdays are manageable, it just takes some patience.

09-07-2022, 12:17 AM	#4
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09-06-2022, 06:20 PM	#3
chachee52 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Gilford, NH Posts: 455 Thanks: 6 Thanked 94 Times in 73 Posts	Should have come to the Broads, pretty quiet day for such a nice day. On Sunday around 1pm cruised across from my friend's next to the Hole-in-the-Wall across the Broads and was shocked to only have to change my course because I came near a boat once. And that was a stretch of me being extra room kind. The last 2 weekends everyone around my camp were talking about how quiet it was out there. Weirs always seems to attract the "I need to get no where fast" crowd. Can't tell you how many times I was pushed around by wakes going through the small no wake area at the point of Governor's Island because people were passing me this summer. Didn't seem to make a difference what day, just more so on weekends definitely.

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