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fatlazyless · 07-20-2011, 07:49 AM

http://www.laconiadailysun.com/story...enter-doldrums

It appears from this article that building a sailing center at Ellacoya State (rv & swim but NOT sail) Park is going nowhere fast!

www.squamlakes.org/programs/boating.php is located directly on Rt 3-25 in Holderness, about a ten minute drive up from the big intersection in Meredith, and they just finished a two year construction of a very large, unheated activity building that looks like a great big barn to be used for summer learning programs for kids and adults including sailing. They rent out sailboats to non-members for a half day (for fifty five dollars-no reservations-just show up & sail!), or a day, or you can become a season member and store your sailboat boat or go kayaking.

Squam is a very different lake than Winnipesaukeee. On Winnipesaukee, the shoreline is approximately 99.9% all built out with gigundic garish mcmansions complete with irrigated brite green lawns and $250,000 high-performance boats, while on Squam the shoreline is approximately 99.9% covered with large green trees and just a couple smallish brown and green cabins nestled below those tall pines complete with an oldey 11' 11 1/2" sailboat (& the rudder does not count)!

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New Hampshire has the unique distinction of being the only state, out of all fifty, where their state park system is entirely self-funded by the park's admission fees, and gets no money from the general state fund.

Walk around Ellacoya State Park and it looks like everything was installed, constructed, and designed in about 1965, and has been lovingly maintained by dedicated park employees ever since, because they know there's no money to replace or upgrade anything. That turns out to make for a very nice, 1965 style park experience what with the old style slide, swings, rest room fixtures, building construction, and everything else including the old timey dedicated state employees......and probably a lot of people like it that way. They say.....don't change nothing....just leave Ellacoya the way it is.....which is the same way it was back in 1965!

07-20-2011, 07:49 AM	#128
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,526 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 295 Thanked 957 Times in 698 Posts	http://www.laconiadailysun.com/story...enter-doldrums It appears from this article that building a sailing center at Ellacoya State (rv & swim but NOT sail) Park is going nowhere fast! www.squamlakes.org/programs/boating.php is located directly on Rt 3-25 in Holderness, about a ten minute drive up from the big intersection in Meredith, and they just finished a two year construction of a very large, unheated activity building that looks like a great big barn to be used for summer learning programs for kids and adults including sailing. They rent out sailboats to non-members for a half day (for fifty five dollars-no reservations-just show up & sail!), or a day, or you can become a season member and store your sailboat boat or go kayaking. Squam is a very different lake than Winnipesaukeee. On Winnipesaukee, the shoreline is approximately 99.9% all built out with gigundic garish mcmansions complete with irrigated brite green lawns and $250,000 high-performance boats, while on Squam the shoreline is approximately 99.9% covered with large green trees and just a couple smallish brown and green cabins nestled below those tall pines complete with an oldey 11' 11 1/2" sailboat (& the rudder does not count)! ..................... New Hampshire has the unique distinction of being the only state, out of all fifty, where their state park system is entirely self-funded by the park's admission fees, and gets no money from the general state fund. Walk around Ellacoya State Park and it looks like everything was installed, constructed, and designed in about 1965, and has been lovingly maintained by dedicated park employees ever since, because they know there's no money to replace or upgrade anything. That turns out to make for a very nice, 1965 style park experience what with the old style slide, swings, rest room fixtures, building construction, and everything else including the old timey dedicated state employees......and probably a lot of people like it that way. They say.....don't change nothing....just leave Ellacoya the way it is.....which is the same way it was back in 1965! __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake! Last edited by fatlazyless; 07-20-2011 at 11:10 AM.