Here's a well-articulated
story from the same paper that you guys conveniently missed that explains it better;
ftp://www.laconiadailysun.com/Laconiapdf/2009/9/29L.pdf
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For those who need to pilot a boat at 90 MPH, the ocean is nearby what about 60 mph?
To the editor,
The letters from Mr. Verdonk and
Mr. Stewart exemplify the problems
the high speed boating crowd faces
trying to find fault with a speed limit. Not A speed limit, THIS 45/25 mph limit
They just don’t know how to find a
problem with such a
sensible law, so
they make things up.
who decreed that this 45/25 mph is a sensible law?
While I appreciate that
Mr. Stewart
at least had the fortitude to admit
that boaters slowed down because of
the speed limit, saying that the only
thing that did was erode
her shoreline
is just plain silly. Why would a “ginormous”
boat going 45 erode
her shoreline
and the same boat going 85 not?
"ginormous" boat is a very prejudicial term. Fast boats come in all sizes. 16-21 feet is not "ginormous" and we know that slow going boats can PLOW leaving huge wakes that travel more than 150 feet while faster boats, on plane, can leave much smaller wakes.
If “ginormous” boats are going anything
over headway speed that close
to his shoreline, then he has other
causes to complain besides a speed
limit. If “ginormous” boats were going
that close to my shoreline, I certainly
wouldn’t want them to be going 85
MPH.
Of course, laws other than "speed limits" are being broken and what if they were going 55 or 60 mph 300 feet from your shore?...
Several weekends in August the lake was
as crowded as I’ve ever seen it, but it
just FELT LIKE it was less crowded
slower boats made what was a crowded lake be perceived as a less crowded lake to the writer, interesting.
because almost everyone was going
slower, as
Ms. Stewart also saw. How
did the economy do that? More civility
during sunny days when the lake
is just as crowded has nothing to do
with the economy or bad weather. The
economy and rain might have affected
the boating numbers this year (at
times), but it could only have been the
speed limit that slowed them down, as
Mr. Stewart himself admits.
The typical Granite Stater new to
this whole discussion will ask how
anyone could rationalize opposition to
a
reasonable limit of boating speeds Who declared that 45/25mph was a reasonable limit. Why not 55/35 or 65/35 or some other speeds?
on a lake so crowded with such big
boats.
Oh there are so many big boats you claim why not a size limit instead of a speed limit? Are we being logical?
But of course, those who make
a lot of money over-crowding our
lake with over-fast boats and those
who boast about the “need for speed”
are not your typical Granite Staters.
They don’t think rationally. Their selfish
interests and “needs” cloud their
common sense.
I don't make any money from boats, fast or slow. I have no need for speed. My boat can not reach 45 mph and there are MANY of us like that who oppose the 45/25 limit. And we are rational thinkers.
And they are not interested
in the activities that most Granite
Staters enjoy or that NH wants to
offer tourists to attract them to come
here.
Says who? How does the writer know this? It's made up.
The brochures one picks up at our
rest stops show the natural beauty of
our state. Photos depict our beautiful
lakes and mountains as safe and
open to family recreational activities.
You see canoes and sailboats. You see
families water skiing and fishing. You
see loons and sunsets. Imagine how
many tourists we’d attract if those
brochures instead showed 6-ton boats
flying around at 80-90 mph amongst
the canoes and kayaks?
This makes me laugh. Lets show boats going only 55 or 60 mph, OK? Better yet, how can we tell speed from STILL PICTURES?
That is not the NH I grew up in,
Not much is the way it was when I was growing up. The world is growing up or that my summer
neighbors want to come to. For every
one tourist such an image attracts to
NH, it will send 100 somewhere else.
I'd tell you what kind of images attract me and many other men, but this thread is not a bikini topic 
although those have been known get boat operators to slow down
See what that does to our economy,
Mr. Verdonk.
Forty-five MPH is a very reasonable
top speed for a boat on Lake Winnipesaukee.
It’s the typical speed limit
on lakes like Winnipesaukee around
the country and has proven effective
over and over. There is not a single
lake-appropriate boating activity that
one cannot enjoy at 45 MPH. And for
those with “the need” to go 90 MPH,
the ocean is just 50 miles down the
road. Anyone who argues that 45 is
too slow for this lake,
It's not to slow for the lake. It's to slow to be a top limit.
whether blaming it on shore erosion, the economy,
the weather, or some other nonsensical
reason, is just not being honest.
The writer assusmes that anyone who disagrees with 45/25 is DISHONEST, ouch!
As Mr. Chase’s letter said, the bottom
line is that NH’s citizens asked for the
law and seem to love its effects, while
the offenders are obviously unhappy
with it. How many laws can we say
that about? And doesn’t that prove it’s
working?
No it does nott prove it is working. Many of us NONoffenders are unhappy about the 45/25 speed limit law. The writer is simply promulgating propaganda and making false assumptions.
Jack Weeks
Meredith"
PS; I bet it will take less than one hundred and twenty seconds for OCD to respond.