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Originally Posted by Fat Jack
Are we actually stooping to camparing New Hampshire's beautiful Lake Winnipesaukee to the German Autobahn now? Is that what you people want it to be? That's not what the rest of us want. It's not a super highway or a race track...its a crowded lake. Besides, where would we paint the lane markers?
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Lane markers, now who's stoooping. Your point was that in the auto world, speed kills and by extension it (whatever speed you have in mind, presumably over 45) kills here on the lake. It's an oversimplification in the auto world and it's the same here. The lake (to be fair not all of it) has some of the same qualifications that make highways safe for their speeds, namely unhindered sightlines. To say "Speed Kills" on these portions is as untrue as it is on the highways or Autobahn. Now if you don't want "high" speed on the lake anywhere, anytime, then fine say so. Just don't make the claim that it's inherently unsafe because "Speed Kills".
As to lane markers ... boats have room to manuver that cars don't have. Cars don't function safely off the road, it's those pesky trees and poles and hills and stuff that get in the way. We created roads for just these type of reasons. Because roads are limited in size, we must operate our cars in close proximity to other cars and so we have lane markers to separate them. A better analogy, auto world to boating world, would be driving aroung the Bonneville salt flats. If you want to say you would be unable to drive your car in the saltflats without running into someone else, that it would require lane markers, well I have no polite response for that.