![]() |
![]() |
|
Home | Forums | Gallery | Webcams | Blogs | YouTube Channel | Classifieds | Register | FAQ | Members List | Donate | Today's Posts | Search |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
![]() |
#1 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Bear Island
Posts: 1,764
Thanks: 32
Thanked 441 Times in 207 Posts
|
![]()
I have been married for 31 plus years. Obviously I can compromise!
Compromise is how you get things done in most cases. I have said from the beginning I want a horsepower limit not a speed limit. My second choice would have been a 60/30 speed limit. But nobody went with that. So I had to compromise and support 45/25. |
![]() |
![]() |
#2 | |
Member
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Cute village in New Hampshire
Posts: 36
Thanks: 1
Thanked 9 Times in 5 Posts
|
![]() Quote:
Who would decide what the horsepower limit would be and on what lakes or rivers? My bass boat is 22 ft. and weighs in at 4,000 lbs. fully loaded with livewell water, 50 gal. of fuel, gear, 2 adults, and 4 deep cycle batteries. It takes 250 hp just to lift all this and get it up on plane. Horsepower rating on a watercraft is mainly based upon size (length & width) and weight. Therefore, if you had your way by limiting horsepower, you might as well be banning all large boats. Is that really what you want to do?
__________________
We can achieve only that which we "see" in our vision, believe is possible, and expect to manifest. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
#3 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,547
Thanks: 222
Thanked 830 Times in 501 Posts
|
![]() Quote:
|
|
![]() |
![]() |
#4 |
Senior Member
|
![]()
Agreed, a horse power limit is not really needed as the 45-25 speed limit, with its recent very strong, House of Representatives, vote confirmation of 236-111, lets the boat-buyer choose for themself to power up, or to power down.
![]()
__________________
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#5 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 1,254
Thanks: 423
Thanked 366 Times in 175 Posts
|
![]()
Skip,
If you don't need a drivers license to drive a boat do you think it would be reasonable to leave it home and only present a boating certificate? Would it do any good? Can't wait for the kids to get stopped going 50 on a PWC which will drive our insurance rates up. Will have to learn to have fun in a perpendicular to land kind of way. Much safer? |
![]() |
Sponsored Links |
|
![]() |
#6 |
Senior Member
|
![]()
If HB-847 becomes law and you really miss the bad old days when you could legally go 107mph in a boat on Lake Winnipesaukee, you'll still have the option of doing that in a snowmobile, a car, motorcycle, pickup truck, suv, minivan, or motorized skateboard, as long as it cannot float and be considered a vessel. Ditto that for ice sailboats. While NH has a land speed limit of 45mph for snowmobiles, unless otherwise posted, it has no sno-mo speed limit on Lake Winnipesaukee, because it is not land, and HB-847 does not apply to sno-mos.
Let's see here, 107mph subtract 62=45mph. Hey, just how slow is that? ![]()
__________________
![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
#7 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Bow
Posts: 1,874
Thanks: 521
Thanked 308 Times in 162 Posts
|
![]()
I am not sure you are correct about snowmobiles Les. On land there is a 45 mph limit for sleds, and as far as I know, that applies to most lakes/ice as well. The only lake that has a different speed limit that is specified is Turtletown Pond in Concord, which is 55.
I could be wrong, but that is how I interpret it. |
![]() |
![]() |
#8 | |
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Weirs Beach
Posts: 1,968
Thanks: 80
Thanked 980 Times in 440 Posts
|
![]() Quote:
Chip... FLL is correct... there is no snowmobile speed limit on most NH lakes... Turtletown Pond and Back Lake are two examples... Woodsy
__________________
The only way to eliminate ignorant behavior is through education. You can't fix stupid. |
|
![]() |
![]() |
#9 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Bow
Posts: 1,874
Thanks: 521
Thanked 308 Times in 162 Posts
|
![]() |
![]() |
Bookmarks |
|
|