Drunks favor 3˝-Ton boats to keep them alive and un-bloodied?
Maybe so:
Weighed
together, the dead victims' demolished boats didn't weigh anywhere-close to 3˝-Tons.
I (We)
"Let it go" when oversized ocean racers got their well-deserved legal knockdown; however, the ocean-racers just returned to Concord to modify an existing law that ultimately legalized their exhaust "cut-out" option to bring to Winnipesaukee their excessive exhaust noise.
I certainly can understand why the NHMP are finding "articulable suspicion" regarding these exhausts.
Maine's Sebago Lake allows very loud exhaust noises—although ocean-racers can be heard from
over 8 miles away. Even the 300-foot height and granite mass of Rattlesnake Island can't block the noise from SW side to NE side. (Also true at Johnson's Cove).
Lake Winnipesaukee has a very different geological history than my family's former Sebago Lake island property—which enhanced its allure to my Grandparents. Thanks to my Grandparents' decision to move to Melvin Village, my Dad and I have spent nearly all of our boating lives on Lake Winnipesaukee. (Mostly on Winter Harbor—which BTW—is
not a busy thruway).
Note just received from Winter Harbor:
When I'm on the telephone, I always make it a point to let the caller know how
exhaust noise interferes with Lake Winnipesaukee's birding and "quiet-time" pleasures; that is,
if the caller can hear me. (!)
With the offender's exhaust in the background, it's especially gratifying when NHMP dispatchers ask me to repeat my phoned-in complaint about speedboat exhaust noise.
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