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Originally Posted by KonaChick
Sorry bbarrell but there's just no way APS is wrong, it has to be your mistake!
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It may only be a coincidence that the "buzzing" of the other boats around me coincided with this photo. I could be very wrong...so I ask you: what is your understanding of the following?
What does
bbarrell really mean when he wrote:
"I was 'ON' THE BOAT"
"We weren't racing"
"I wasn't "participating" in the Poker Run"
"...possibly I have a twin who "drives" the same boat". (Makes
bbarrell the driver, doesn't it?)
We're led to questions like the following:
1) Was he a
passenger in a boat whose driver wasn't registered in the Poker Run?
2) Was he the
driver in a boat whose driver wasn't registered in the Poker Run? (Or hadn't
paid).
3) Was he in a Poker Run in 2005 and mistook it for 2004? (when he remembers
not being in one—or at least
not being "a participant").
4) Is
bbarrell the "driver", owner, or a passenger? (A passenger may—or may not—be a registered "participant").
5) How could
this boat be identified as the boat he was on (or "driving")? It looks just like many other boats with three aboard.
I must ask because both photos are from the middle of an entire roll of film that was gone in about an hour. Perhaps I could e-mail the file to a neutral forum member for corroboration.
It is said "there are no coincidences", but there were so many ocean-racers that day operating at similar speeds and traveling on the same pathways.
(And no shortage of Jet-Skis trying unsuccessfully to catch them).
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Originally Posted by bbarrell
"...And I only see 1 anchored..."
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All twenty-three photos were taken from my anchored powerboat, positioned 150-feet from the marker to get a closeup. Those two ocean-racers passed to the far side of the fishermen, but I have another 20 photos taken that day.
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Originally Posted by bbarrell
"...So I wish the speed limit supporters would quit putting up this picture and trying to claim we were speeding or racing.....because we weren't.
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There is no speeding law; however, my
NH Boaters Guide describes the following:
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"Reckless operation is the failure to exercise the degree of care necessary to prevent the endangering of another person or their property. It can be the result of operator ignorance, carelessness, inattention, or indifference."
—NH Boaters Guide
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With a few tons of airborne boat—unable to stop or turn—I wouldn't admit to being "the driver" either.
BTW: Both photos have a widespread and interesting history. I think every concerned NH Legislator received a copy of them last year.
Some disregarded their significance to the "Unlimited Speeds" issue prior to the election, and are employed differently today.