[The Big Kahuna]

The Marine Patrol do nothing on this lake to make the lake a safer place. Case in point, why are they in some cove writing you a rafting ticket, rather than making sure the traffic areas of the lake are safe, where boats are passing each other within the 150' of safe passage, at more than wake speed. They seem to migrate to where people tend to socialize and make sure there is no fun attempted. I have boated on this lake for over 20 years and have never seen an injury or accedent from rafting, yet that is what they spend the majority of their time preventing. I recieved a ticket for rafting once, I parked my boat, through out my lines and decided to take a nap. The Marine Patrol woke me up to tell me they were writing me a ticket for rafting because why I was sleeping, two other boats parked to close to me. I tried to explain it to them, and the boat next to me even admitted he came in and parked next to me, but they still wrote me a ticket. How about the time I went to see the fire works in Alton Bay with my inlaws. I had my mother inlaw, two sister inlaws with husbands and about 6 kids in my boat. I ran out of gas after the fire works, when I waved to a Marine Patrol boat to help me, they pulled aside my boat, told me there was nothing they could do
and kept on going, leaving me with a boat full of kids and my aging mother inlaw. I had to ask another boat to pull me to a near by dock to get my boat out of the way of other boats leaving Alton Bay. By the way, they also have no idea what 150 ft is as far as safe passage it, they think its 3 football fields if you ask one of them. Once you have been out on the lake for a longer period of time you will know why so many of us do not think that highly of them.