Forum: Speed Limits
04-26-2008, 05:06 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Mythbusters For The Defense...
Because of the $2000 threshold for a NHMP report—and no injury—why would this require a report to the NHMP? Failing that—and that the CG has no jurisdiction on Winnipesaukee—will it even appear in...
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Forum: Speed Limits
04-15-2008, 05:48 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Decks, Distractions and Distorted Windshields...
In defense of oversized Winnipesaukee cruisers, many have flybridges. (And passengers on the foredeck).
The incident—as told to me—was very close to shore, involved the boat leaving a dock after...
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Forum: Speed Limits
04-14-2008, 08:35 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
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Forum: Speed Limits
04-11-2008, 07:24 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Uh...where are they here? :confused:
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Uh...where are they here? :confused:
Lakefront dwellers on Ossipee Lake and at least two Maine lakes are represented here opposing Winnipesaukee's speed limits. A case of NIMBY?
Granted, I...
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Forum: Speed Limits
04-08-2008, 09:32 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Nimby...
So, we get to re-visit this thread again... remember the original post?
1) Whenever I see ineligible people using the handicapped parking spaces, SUVs parking in malls' fire lanes, and the...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-30-2008, 09:42 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
It's Science...
They are easy to spot, but it depends on your speed.
The human female retina is amply and evenly filled for color detection. Women have the ability to detect colors better. This is likely an...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-29-2008, 10:38 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Problem-Boaters with Problem Boats VI
I got the same sense with the following Quality-of-Life issues when these were before the Legislature recently:
1) The right to smoke cigars in restaurants
2) The right to skim a snowmobile
3) The...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-28-2008, 09:59 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Problem-Boaters with Problem Boats IV
Sometimes, "pretty easily" isn't attention-enough:
http://www.jacksonkayak.com/images08/kayaks-kidseries.jpg
Hey...something I can agree with! :laugh: :eek: ;)
However, one violator that...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-26-2008, 07:45 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Problem Boats with Problem Boaters III
Maybe this was missed:
and...
It's common in Washington—and reprehensible; in NH, it's the Order of the Day. The new law had a last-minute monkey wrench thrown at it by the dismissed...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-25-2008, 10:01 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Problem-Boaters with Problem-Boats—II
Nobody knows how many boats were speeding according to this excerpt:
and...
This law restricts only behavior, so why the angst? There are worse fatal scenarios out there (like Long...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-24-2008, 09:53 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Problem Boats...Problem Boaters
Here's hoping NH's Legislators are savvy-enough to grasp that.
I picked up the camera only because the oversized ocean-racer intended to (and did) "split the difference" between the kayak and the...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-23-2008, 08:55 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
FYIs...
FYI, your quoted "Ramsey Tidwell" did a cut-and-paste of Woodsy's (http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/showpost.php?p=23856&postcount=25) winni.com post from three years ago!
Tidwell, (an alias...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-22-2008, 09:45 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Oh, This Hurts...
Get used to it.
"They" said the same thing to me when I started the thread "Close Call Today".
When I finally located that thread-starter just now, I found one "Go-Fast" has a problem obeying...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-21-2008, 11:04 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Miami "Я" NOT Us
Let's start with these:
1) The speed that doesn't cut kayaks in half, or
2) The speed that doesn't launch a Donzi dealer into a 32-foot cabin cruiser to kill a married couple, or
3) The speed...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-16-2008, 06:10 PM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
"The Rules" are Already Broken, But...
It's been eight days: He's not "firing". :rolleye2:
One of my two errors: the boat appears to be named "A Salt and Battery"—my monitor isn't sharp enough to tell.
But why the in-your-face...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-08-2008, 09:09 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
More Rhetoric, but with Pictures!
(My responses in blue)
Mee&Mac: Wow you mean the unlight at night kayak. How fast was that boat going ?
Fast enough to become a killer—and to make three kayaks out of two.
Mee&Mac: How...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-04-2008, 09:26 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Concord Monitor, BoaterEd, Soundings...
It was not "a direct hit". Any change in vectoring of those 4½ tons would have been safe.
Like our most famous case? :rolleye1:
The "Need for Speed" is enhanced in tight quarters (and...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-03-2008, 06:28 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Cult Values R NOT Us...
"Hit-and-Run" was NH-legal.
He wasn't proven drunk, but a judge allowed the jury to consider witness' testimony—and was upheld.
He would be in technical violation of the speed limit and that...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-02-2008, 12:30 PM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Down to two?
Lake Winnipesaukee's "Most-Experienced and Most-Educated Night-time Ocean-Racer" is out of jail now.
Using a legal technique that night known as "Hit and Run", he finessed the worst charge...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-02-2008, 09:44 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
Who's responsible, anyway?
1) Run over? Gee-golly...we have to look all the way back to August!
2) Or, I'll put it this way: More innocents than I want to wait for...to appear on "Google News Alerts". (Two photographers...
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Forum: Speed Limits
01-01-2008, 01:48 PM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
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Forum: Speed Limits
12-29-2007, 03:47 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
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Forum: Speed Limits
12-28-2007, 04:30 AM
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Replies: 431
Views: 225,068
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