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Woodsy · 12-12-2005, 09:24 AM

APS...

It seems to me you are trolling for responses with emotional rhetoric and fear mongering. Any mechanical device operated by a human is subject to human error. Therefore, regardless of what is being operated, an accident is a statistical probability. If someone were to follow your logic path, we would have to get rid of most forms of machinery. The first to go would of course be automobiles, because they kill thousands of people yearly. We could go back to horse & buggy, but wait, people got killed operating those too... perhaps it would be better if we all just walked everywhere?

You use pictures and stories from other lakes and other experiences to bolster your position, then tell only 1/2 the story. Why is this? Why not keep the facts you present to incidents/accidents that actually occured on Lake Winnipesaukee? This is the Winni forum after all.

Where is the picture of the 23' Searay that T-boned a STATIONARY pontoon boat in broad daylight at a speed less than 45 MPH right here on Lake Winni? Where was the outrage for that accident? That out of control older Searay driver certainly deserves some sort of punishment for running up on the pontoon boat?

You write of the alleged near miss that occured between you (in your anchored rowboat) & the bass boat. Lets talk some hypotheticals. If in fact he was on a zero bearing course, heading straight for you, as you allege in your story, there is no way you could have even estimated his speed, although in your story you stated he was traveling at top speed. Without actually knowing the make/model/engine size there is no way of knowing how fast that boats top speed is. You have no way of reliably estimating the speed of approach you just know he was coming straight at you at a speed greater that your comfort level. If you were on Lake George, where there is NO safe passage rule, he could have gone by your rowboat at 10' away @ 45MPH and not broken any law at all...

Please keep your sensationalism to a minimum. Debate facts, not emotion...

Woodsy

PS: Why does it matter that winer of some Poker Run got $45,000? Surely being involved in SCCA racing you are not opposed to a winners purse?

12-12-2005, 09:24 AM	#44
Woodsy Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Weirs Beach Posts: 1,965 Thanks: 80 Thanked 979 Times in 440 Posts	APS... It seems to me you are trolling for responses with emotional rhetoric and fear mongering. Any mechanical device operated by a human is subject to human error. Therefore, regardless of what is being operated, an accident is a statistical probability. If someone were to follow your logic path, we would have to get rid of most forms of machinery. The first to go would of course be automobiles, because they kill thousands of people yearly. We could go back to horse & buggy, but wait, people got killed operating those too... perhaps it would be better if we all just walked everywhere? You use pictures and stories from other lakes and other experiences to bolster your position, then tell only 1/2 the story. Why is this? Why not keep the facts you present to incidents/accidents that actually occured on Lake Winnipesaukee? This is the Winni forum after all. Where is the picture of the 23' Searay that T-boned a STATIONARY pontoon boat in broad daylight at a speed less than 45 MPH right here on Lake Winni? Where was the outrage for that accident? That out of control older Searay driver certainly deserves some sort of punishment for running up on the pontoon boat? You write of the alleged near miss that occured between you (in your anchored rowboat) & the bass boat. Lets talk some hypotheticals. If in fact he was on a zero bearing course, heading straight for you, as you allege in your story, there is no way you could have even estimated his speed, although in your story you stated he was traveling at top speed. Without actually knowing the make/model/engine size there is no way of knowing how fast that boats top speed is. You have no way of reliably estimating the speed of approach you just know he was coming straight at you at a speed greater that your comfort level. If you were on Lake George, where there is NO safe passage rule, he could have gone by your rowboat at 10' away @ 45MPH and not broken any law at all... Please keep your sensationalism to a minimum. Debate facts, not emotion... Woodsy PS: Why does it matter that winer of some Poker Run got $45,000? Surely being involved in SCCA racing you are not opposed to a winners purse?