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Originally Posted by MAXUM
I see only one downside to your idea, that being sombody running it over or smashing into it. I know due to recient events this comment may be in slightly poor taste, but it seems like there are at least a few incidents each year where people manage to run their boats into all sorts of things.  Other than that it'd be pretty neat to have that kind of real time weather information. |
I thought of that too. We'd have to talk to the people on Lake Sunapee and see if they've had any problems with it. There are also fixed buoys (ex.- a weather station mounted to a daymark that's drilled into a reef like Black Cat Shoals). A "Broads" buoy would likely need to be of beefy design like the ones on the harbors and coastal waters (not offshore Wx buoys which are up to 12 meters diameter!), since The Broads can be like the coastal waters at times. If anyone hit a buoy like that, they'd have to be a total idiot, and the buoy would win that battle.