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Resident 2B · 12-07-2005, 06:59 PM

After reading much of the debate over the past year without taking a position or making a post, and in addition boating this spring and summer on the lake in a 23' bowrider observing first hand the boating environment on our lake, I have concluded that speed is a very minor factor in almost all situations I have seen or read about.

The only answer to 'Why did Captain Bonehead create such a dangerous situation?' has almost nothing to do with speed, but always is related to the lack of good decision making, for one reason or another.

I pay a lot in NH property taxes because I have lake front property, but I do not have a NH vote. If I did, I would oppose any speed limit and look for better enforcement of the existing laws and increased education requirements for all boaters on the lake. I wish the state would spend some of the money they collect from non-voting people like me on boater education for boaters and improved law enforcement through more MP officers.

We must use more common sense on the lake, because a lack of common sense is Unsafe at any Speed!

12-07-2005, 06:59 PM	#14
Resident 2B Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: North Shore, MA Posts: 1,357 Thanks: 994 Thanked 313 Times in 163 Posts	Speed only a very minor factor After reading much of the debate over the past year without taking a position or making a post, and in addition boating this spring and summer on the lake in a 23' bowrider observing first hand the boating environment on our lake, I have concluded that speed is a very minor factor in almost all situations I have seen or read about. The only answer to 'Why did Captain Bonehead create such a dangerous situation?' has almost nothing to do with speed, but always is related to the lack of good decision making, for one reason or another. I pay a lot in NH property taxes because I have lake front property, but I do not have a NH vote. If I did, I would oppose any speed limit and look for better enforcement of the existing laws and increased education requirements for all boaters on the lake. I wish the state would spend some of the money they collect from non-voting people like me on boater education for boaters and improved law enforcement through more MP officers. We must use more common sense on the lake, because a lack of common sense is Unsafe at any Speed!