Normally, I'd agree, but our 1909 Winnipesaukee chart shows NO MARKERS at all. The first "improvement" was to go to anchored 4"x4" wooden markers, painted red and black. Ice moved them around, and some captains struck them at night—knocking the tops off to leave just a stump above the water.
Such boaters prompted the next improvement, which was PVC markers in red and black. Today, they break only if struck "dead-on", or if "sleds" break them off, level with the ice.
Now, if only we could agree with the color of the next "improvement".
Yes...We are
all "above average".
Y'know, cataracts of the eyes can strike at middle age. Excluding advanced age, the one aggravating activity?
Boating in the sunshine—where direct UV rays are compounded by being reflected off the water, to take the double toll of skin cancers and cataracts.
BTW: Most everybody who has had cataract-surgery comments, "
Color has come back".
Exactly right!
I would add that ice has been shuffling the entire perimeter of the lake for ten thousand years—and perhaps more-so in the past
hundred years. But it's the most recent three decades of "modern boating" has sent old-time residents to rescue their boats with breakwaters and hydraulic lifts. (Even for the oversized boats of our surprised newest residents, and there has been a remarkable turnover—
no pun intended—of residents in Winter Harbor).
As for
wave action, even the strongest of summer on-shore
windstorms don't soak our dock. (Although our dock can get very hot, and a soaking is appreciated—
wakes that throw gravel on the steps, not so much).
True enough, and one can also select a propeller that allows speeds that conform to "no wake" speeds. But to have a ocean-racer to go a little bit faster, hire an attorney to argue the "no wake" law in court.
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