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Originally Posted by LIforrelaxin
If the Boat passes the noise test, the when the "silent choice" is on it is only going to be quieter.
IN SHORT THIS LAW REVERSAL HAS DONE NOTHING THAT MAKES THE LAKE NOISIER
This law making switchable exhaust illegal had been done without the proper knowledge originally. Everyone I talked with, once the details where explained, understood, that this could only improve noise level etc. especially around public docks etc.
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While the change was initially presented as a logical solution—that exhaust noise would become "less-loud"—it hasn't worked out. Noise testing is now done at dockside. It was the first step in fooling the Legislature. A widely circulated photo of the Governor about to sign the new noise bill shows the Governor's face as grim.
What'd he suspect?
Legalizing the "Captain's Choice" exhaust-cutout allows noisy boats to operate in either quiet or loud mode. For reasons that should be obvious, loud boats still plague Winnipesaukee's bays, harbors, inlets and coves.
Cutouts are widely banned in automobiles, but because noise travels greater distances over water,
too many noisy boats have been tolerated on Lake Winnipesaukee for
too long.
Lakers have "earned the right" to make the
most noise, but they've got even louder competition.
If you've viewed the video of the race (that "wasn't a race") taken over the 2013 Labor Day Weekend, you should be scratching your head. At ˝-mile away, the loud rapping exhaust noise of 15 "Performance" boats was recorded with the camera's microphone, which measures only 1.5 millimeters across.
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Originally Posted by SIKSUKR
"...Oh come on ApS. You love the sound of noisy aircraft..."
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Sorry, I don't.
Every bright summer afternoon, I am drawn upwards to a white Waco biplane (radial engine) that flies over Wolfeboro's little airport, then directly over my Dad's
house. The Sukhoi (radial engine) that does weekend acrobatics over Rattlesnake Island can be heard doing Immelmann turns. No Rattlesnake Islander has made mention of that "noise"—and they're missing a show!
It's the sound of the aircraft
radial engines that won WWII that I like—they're not "in your face", like a bunch of Harleys blasting up a road with straight pipes.
For now, let's just call loud exhausts "inconsiderate".
