[fatlazyless]

As you probably know, the Marine Patrol are sworn New Hampshire police officers who are held to a high level of professionalism. What that means is they do indeed maintain a high level of honesty. They don't make stuff up, or lie, or say something happened that, in fact, did not. They see what they saw, and nothing more, and are honest about it, that's professionalism

As you also probably know, the MP's have 15 different patrol boats for Lake Winnipesaukee, and other boats for Newfound, Winnisquam, Squam, Little Squam, Sunapee, Ossipee, Wentworth, Umbagog, Frances and roving MP officers for the many other lakes. So, as you probably know, a speed limit is just one more tool in their tool box.

They are already out there, so just the sight of a patrol boat would have a deterrant effect on someone thinking about speeding.

Do you know what a difference in your next three year's car insurance bill, just one speeding tickets will make? I do! I got one speeding ticket for being about 10-15 miles over in October 2004 on the way back from the Mount Washington-Halloween Ball, and it's costing me an extra $500./year for three years. I was actually going faster and the Thornton cop was very nice to let me off with the lesser violation. Goodbye to my good driver discount for three years but it could have been worse.