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Originally Posted by VtSteve
If last year's accident involved a 20' bowrider, discussion would have been pretty muted.
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Most NH residents would find that statement a little hard to swallow. Here is a woman who rallied the anti SL crowd touting safety as her organization's purpose. She collected a great deal of money to fight proposed SL legislation.She made a comfortable living hawking boats able to go considerably faster than 45 MPH. Now it seems clear that alcohol was involved( and even if it hadn't been, reasonable and prudent behavior seems not to have been exercised that night). The story made national headlines. It is a tragic and sad story of how 2 lives were ruined.So here on this forum, one compromise mentioned by Woodsy was 30 MPH at night ("which would give you leeway for 35 MPH"). This forum is rife with advice on how to get away with breaking the speed limit, posts bragging about how the SL hasn't slowed them down, etc. It just seems a bit hypocritical to me. And in just 2 months her trial will begin, just at a time when the Sl debate/legislative process will be getting underway as well. Kind of a sad juxtaposition. It seems like 45 MPH was the compromise and I can't imagine that in a few years all the other lakes won't follow suit.