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Old 03-11-2023, 10:00 PM   #1
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The last memorable person to take your side ran their boat into an island. The collision with shoreline was speedy enough to kill a passenger and to have their boat's anchor fly off their deck to impact a residence.

That island marks the northern border of your proposed race course.

Is it possible that a year of "punishing" night-times in jail was sufficient to propose again a race course through the middle of Lake Winnipesaukee?

Or did such a light sentence steel the resolve of us "Winnipesaukee Boaters Against Fatalities" into opposition?
I am in no way mitigating or devaluing the severity of the incident, but speed in and of itself was not the reason for the accident. She was going approximately 25 MPH which is now the speed limit at night. Obviously had she been going slower the result may have been different.

Nor was speed the reason for the other famous Meredith Bay fatality.

The only fatality on Lake Winnipesaukee in which speed may have been a factor was back in the 1970s or 1980s in which a speed boat hit Little Island at night. However, I think alcohol may have been the primary cause for the accident.


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Old 03-12-2023, 06:13 AM   #2
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I am in no way mitigating or devaluing the severity of the incident, but speed in and of itself was not the reason for the accident. She was going approximately 25 MPH which is now the speed limit at night.
Just a minor correction….the speed limit at night is 30 mph…

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