Forum: Winni Wildlife
05-23-2014, 08:45 PM
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Replies: 49
Views: 52,935
Loons getting shot
Animal lovers please take note of this message from F&G; While it's titled "Poachers" to me it's some real maggots shooting these amazing birds. Please be vigilant and report anything that doesn't...
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Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
05-12-2014, 11:19 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 30,470
Here are some sonar shots of the wreck that is...
Here are some sonar shots of the wreck that is the most intact of the three in Duck Trap Cove-about 80 feet out from the pier. If you are looking from the water at the pier and shore it is straight...
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Forum: General Discussion
04-23-2014, 07:28 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,278
Thanks all. As to side-scan-sonar I have long...
Thanks all. As to side-scan-sonar I have long list of things to re-scan and a long list of things to dive from last year I scanned but didn't have time to dive.
Have more boats, more barges and...
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Forum: General Discussion
04-22-2014, 08:09 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 3,278
How much ice is left?
How much ice is out in the main bodies of the lake? Is there any point in me putting at at say West Alton or Meredith etc.? Can I even put in at those locations due to remaining ice?
I know things...
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Forum: Weather
03-18-2014, 01:34 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 12,802
NOAA directed me here: ...
NOAA directed me here:
http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/ulcd/ULCD?prior=Y
Nothing going back as far as I need to thru that link but may be useful in the future.
Senter Cove Guy gave me:...
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Forum: Weather
03-16-2014, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 12,802
Information on past weather-where to look?
Hi All,
I need to examine weather specific to Winnipesaukee at various points in time in the past; I have been told to go to Laconia Public Library as my first source which I will do.
Does...
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Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
03-02-2014, 09:24 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 15,630
Bow shot.
I would really like to know the...
Bow shot.
I would really like to know the name of this vessel but as with all of them I've found to date, nothing. Too far gone.
Noting the rust line, this one is unusual in that the keel at...
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Forum: History
02-20-2014, 12:02 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 23,883
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Forum: History
02-19-2014, 01:19 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 23,883
Need help identifying this island
Got a message from someone looking for help identifying the island in the picture. Text attached to email reads:
I believe that my Great Grandmother Gillman once owned “Tenney’s Island on Lake...
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Forum: History
02-06-2014, 10:37 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 8,632
Looking for information-Haven E. Collis
Hi All,
Looking for some background on Haven E. Collis who I am told had a place on Little Bear Island. It is also believed he "could have" owned the the 50 foot wreck I found a few years ago off...
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Forum: Boating
01-18-2014, 03:43 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 7,549
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Forum: History
12-30-2013, 11:49 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 10,315
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Forum: History
12-27-2013, 10:15 PM
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Replies: 0
Views: 6,339
Lakeport steam boat landing
Winter research produced this excerpt from HISTORY & GENEALOGY OF (LACONIA)-part of a town by town series online at
http://www.nh.searchroots.com/belknap.html.
Anyone know where this landing...
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Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
12-17-2013, 07:48 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 13,267
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Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
12-10-2013, 09:59 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 34,432
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Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
12-10-2013, 09:48 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 16,210
Yes possible. The trenches they dig are quite...
Yes possible. The trenches they dig are quite clear when you swim over them even though the snails themselves average about 3" long. It would also account for why there are so many. The sonar is good...
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Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
12-10-2013, 09:45 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 16,897
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Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
12-09-2013, 04:46 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 16,210
More terrain shots
The depression image is a shot in Alton of the sonar beam going over the top edge of what is basically a hole; The dark area is the hole itself on the backside/left side, of the edge of the...
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Forum: Diving Winnipesaukee
12-03-2013, 10:08 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 16,210
Varied terrain side-scan-sonar shots
The bottom of Winnipesaukee varies greatly. Unless you've dived it you really don't know just how varied it can be. From huge plains of plain mud to house sized boulders to gravel beds to boulder...
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Forum: History
11-15-2013, 10:01 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 7,510
Sullivan's Cigar Manufacturing
While re-reading Bruce Healds' "Boats & Ports of Winnipesaukee vol. 2" recently I came across a reference to speed boat sponsors, specifically Archie Gulliford of "724 Cigar fame in Manchester".
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Forum: History
11-14-2013, 10:19 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 27,705
Thanks McDude for the article-I had found that...
Thanks McDude for the article-I had found that originally-don't recall where-and researched off of that same document and found the original WYC site last week.
As to the fort, in a book I re-read...
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Forum: History
11-09-2013, 05:56 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 27,705
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Forum: History
11-09-2013, 05:50 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 27,705
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Forum: History
11-09-2013, 09:26 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 27,705
Alton Fort
I have read more than once about an old fort along the eastern shore in Alton. I think it may have been away from the water somewhat on the embankment.
Did this really exist? Can anyone tell me...
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Forum: History
11-02-2013, 06:48 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 6,730
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