Trivia ??

[Phantom]

Okay, this one has bugged me for years and I keep forgeting to Post it (perhaps it was addressed long ago)


There are some 76 Floating Lights on the Lake --- Why (in the numbering scheme) was #31-38 skipped ??

Inquiring minds need to know :emb:
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[Dave R]

31 through 35 used to mark the Weirs Channel (maybe still do????). Dunno about 36, 37 and 38 though.

[jrc]

I heard similar to DaveR. 31-38 are the four black and four red bouys in the Wiers channel.

On the same subject, there seems to be two or more overlapping sequences of numbers. If you follow the numbers from one, they seem to make a logical path through the lake. The higher numbers seem to be added afterwards.

Anyone know the history of the bouys?

[Phantom]

Thanks DaveR --- makes sense to me

And I love jrc's question but to add to his question .... where's the logic in the path? Doesn't obviously follow the Mount route and I'm confident Black Cat & Farrer Pt were thrown in simply as the next in the sequence

Wohoo, I started a thread no one get's bashed in!!
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[Senter Cove Guy]

There are 54 numbered flashing light buoys on this map. 31 - 38 are listed as follows:

31 Weirs Channel, N.E. (Red)
32 Weirs Channel, S.W. (Amber)
33 Weirs Channel, N.E. (Red)
34 Weirs Channel, N.W. (Amber)
35 Weirs Channel, N.E. (Red)
36 Weirs Channel, S.W. (Amber)
37 Weirs Channel, N.W. (Amber)
38 Weirs Channel, N.W. (Amber)

[jrc]

Lets follow the markers:

1,2,3,4,5
Weirs Beach to Center Harbor via the Bear Island channel

6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14
Center Harbor, to Moultonboro bay
Around Long Island, by Little Bear, by the Graveyard and through Melvin Bay up to it gets real rocky

8 Round Is, seems out of sequence

17,18,16,19,15
Out through the Barber pole and into Winter Harbor
These numbers are jumbled but there is a path

20,21
Winter Harbor to Wolfeboro

22,23
Wolfeboro to Alton Bay

24,25,26

From Rattlesnake to the Witches

27,28,29

Timber, Mark and Mink

30-38

Back to the Weirs

So there is a definite round the world pattern here and after 39 I don't easily see a pattern

39 Paugus Bay
40 Keniston
41 Ragged
42 Rock
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[Phantom]

There are 54 numbered flashing light buoys on this map. 31 - 38 are listed as follows:

31 Weirs Channel, N.E. (Red)
32 Weirs Channel, S.W. (Amber)
33 Weirs Channel, N.E. (Red)
34 Weirs Channel, N.W. (Amber)
35 Weirs Channel, N.E. (Red)
36 Weirs Channel, S.W. (Amber)
37 Weirs Channel, N.W. (Amber)
38 Weirs Channel, N.W. (Amber)

Came across a map over the week-end from "1966 / 1967" and the FL's #31-38 were still listed in the Weirs Channel with a total of 73 markers (up from the 54 that Senter Cove Guy has listed in 1953)

TRIVIA Question #5 -- When did they elimnate the Floating lites from the Weirs Channel

(This one I do not have the answer to)
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