Today is July 22, so it's safe to say that the summer boating season on Lake Winnipesaukee has at least been here now for one month.....and counting. The weather started out kind of cool and wet, but then switched over to sunny, 80-degrees or warmer with relatively dry air with a couple of 3-H days thrown in for extra interest.
Looking back over the past 19-years, it was pretty common for a sunny summer weekend to bring out the big fast boats with their big, powerfull and loud engines. To describe it as if your head had been placed inside a chainsaw was the way it used to sound back in the day of the go-fast boats as they roared around past Buoy 3.
Well folks, something has definitely changed for this year's Lake Winnipesaukee boating season when it comes to assessing the weekend noise level out on the Big Lake. The noise level has definitely gone down, and by a very noticeable amount, too. It's really not the same fast and loud lake that it used to be on the weekend. Something has changed here, but I'm not exactly sure what it is?
