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BroadHopper · 07-10-2013, 10:46 AM

Thurston's is a very bad spot. I have seen far too many boaters try to do U turns, run in etc. to get to the gas dock. Worst are the rental boats, they come in and out as they please and I have witness a good number of collisions in my days. I even lost an SS prop and bent my prop shaft because some rental boat pulled out of Thurston, caught the swift current and panic, sending the pontoon boat down the channel sideways into an already packed Channel. The marine patrol was no help as they did a lousy job of directing traffic and instead of assisting the newbie what to do, he was screaming into the bull horn to get out of the channel. You can well aware the chaos, I believe this was a decade ago. A number of boaters caught in the melee did stop at Thurston's to spoke their mind but the management was no where to be found.

Some things never change, until God forbid someone gets hurt.

07-10-2013, 10:46 AM	#23
BroadHopper Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Laconia NH Posts: 5,522 Thanks: 3,128 Thanked 1,090 Times in 784 Posts	Happens all the time. Thurston's is a very bad spot. I have seen far too many boaters try to do U turns, run in etc. to get to the gas dock. Worst are the rental boats, they come in and out as they please and I have witness a good number of collisions in my days. I even lost an SS prop and bent my prop shaft because some rental boat pulled out of Thurston, caught the swift current and panic, sending the pontoon boat down the channel sideways into an already packed Channel. The marine patrol was no help as they did a lousy job of directing traffic and instead of assisting the newbie what to do, he was screaming into the bull horn to get out of the channel. You can well aware the chaos, I believe this was a decade ago. A number of boaters caught in the melee did stop at Thurston's to spoke their mind but the management was no where to be found. Some things never change, until God forbid someone gets hurt. __________________ Someday may never be an actual day.