The standards for NH-boaters could be raised by requiring boat license applicants to swim a one half mile, open water swim from the Marine Patrol dock, out and around Pig Island ...
http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...to=8577&sort=1 .... and back, in order to get a NH motor boat license.
It's not the Marine Patrol that needs improving, it's the motor boater who need to pass a new and improved, more difficult boat license test and then have to redo this swim test, every five years. ......