Memorial Day Weekend -- Fatality?

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Originally Posted by throttleman

Your boat description sounds like a small 21' Donzi--hardly an ocean going "offshore".

Can't say. Its nose reached the third floor level of a McMansion across the way. (Offshores have noses at the pointy-end).

It was a heck of a wave it hit, though. Wish it could have been called a rogue wave, but every high-water June weekend, dock surfaces around here get swept by the wakes of passing "ocean-appropriate" cruisers -- indifferently loaded.

Originally Posted by throttleman

Based on your misleading thread title...

'Wasn't for lack of trying. About noon on the 14th, my "brand-new, new" thread, moved to "Boating" from "General Discussion", and re-titled One Take on Offshores?

It got "fixed".

Originally Posted by throttleman

I was expecting to read an article about a horrific accident.

Disappointments abound. No horrific accident occurred, just a boat sunk by drunks -- it's not the offshore season yet anyway.

Originally Posted by throttleman

This offshore issue has been argued and debated over and over for the past several years with the same viewpoints, perspective, and comments...

Well, not exactly. New is the admonition that we live on an essentially residential lake, where quality of air, water, noise, wildlife, (and life itself) is important.

Also new is that a boat that consumes one gallon of gasoline-per-minute is not a gas-guzzler.

Originally Posted by Paugus Bay Resident

"Let's all be grateful we have such a lofty authority looking over our lake."

"Looking over" Winnipesaukee is a lofty responsibility. Dealers in offshore-going boats should not be that authority, IMO. (But they pay lobbyists very well to remain so, now, don't they?)

Originally Posted by throttleman

If the past several months of calm and serenity on the forum have bored you, maybe you should spend more time perusing the archives...

Backyard chicken recipe-swapping! Yesss!