You didn't read my last travelogue on the Barber's Pole NWZ?
We're describing the same place, but we're describing different times.
The
four hours I spent between 8-AM to 10-AM appeared differently from the
one hour you spent between 12 to 12:30.
How could they
not want a NWZ in front of their launch point?
The BP residents throwing rocks from their docking spaces—I now realize—were "manually dredging" the shallows under their boats. This was keep their boats from striking-bottom, after wakes had roughed-up their boats.
Leaving, I had this
feeling I should put on my PFD as I entered the waters south of Barber's Pole.
On my southbound return trip, I realize that some boaters just don't care.
I support the NWZ at Barber's Pole, even as my own needs for wake protection can never be provided: a breakwater wasn't granted a permit—and neither would a NWZ
ever happen here.
I enjoy watching folks playing on the waters: it's a shame that those with oversized boats can't go tubing in The Broads—a scant ½-mile away. They disrupt enjoyments of everyone else in front of my location—tossing our boats and shallows into a roiled mayhem. The anarchy of wake damage occurs within their eyesight, though they choose
not to see it first-hand, behind them.
A friend from Camp Wyanoke days visited me on Sunday: we watched as the wakes hammered in. Imagine getting wet 10-feet above the lake!
Though he lives in sight across our shared harbor, he was impressed by the forces that were unleashed along my shoreline.
From Port Wedeln he can clearly see boats rafting in Johnson's Cove. He is
not affected by the oversized boats that "commute" to Johnson's Cove on weekends. His location is less "waked", as he is on the "outside" of wakes—our side gets hammered, as we're on "the inside".
It is no different at Barber's Pole.
We both remarked that a 22' outboard "lobster-boat style" boat that is manufactured locally, leaves a very modest wake—indeed. It appears to be the perfect Lake Winnipesaukee boat for all reasons—barring the weather extremes that can sink a Cobalt. ('Though maybe it was actually a better boat in that circumstance—even given its smaller size.)
Even boats of "only" 24-feet can throw a wake that can overturn the unsuspecting jon-boat or canoe. We can suspect an oversized boat damaged a seaplane last week. The two recorded 2010 hypothermia fatalities could have oversized boats to blame.
'Sorry this reply is late, by a day: I managed
seven posts on Sunday—for whatever reason that was permitted. All day long on Monday, I never lost the error-message that said "You have exceeded five posts in a 24-hour period".
I'm not a "numbers person" at all. I don't understand the algorithm that controls my replies intermittantly—then blocks them.
At bottom,
I support the NWZ at Barber's Pole. Any reasonable person would, as well. Residents who fund this state through property taxes should have this slightest of courtesies extended.
I viewed the clatter, barking, and banging at Cow Island as a peculiar form of noise-pollution, but any headline that could follow misadventure, is worth two minutes of delay when transiting the narrows at Barber's Pole.
IMHO.