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Originally Posted by Webbsatwinni
I agree with limits in coves, narrow areas and at night for safety. In the broads it just doesn't fit, a lot of people I speak to avoid the broads for rough water not speeders.
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You'd be shocked at all the unlighted "low-information boaters" out after dark.
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...We love the lake and bought here in 2007, it was all about the boating. To have a large area like the broads that you can't go over 45, well, never mind. Sadly, I didn't vote the lake as a top New England destination when that poll was out and I cannot believe I didn't, but for us, it isn't. But those who like the lake without traffic or noise prevailed.
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The Broads doesn't have to be rough—the scofflaws prefer the calm waters of coves. Saturday, the usual weekend white Donzi blasted through Winter Harbor mid-morning at speeds approaching 100-MPH!
(Yeah, I know,
"Donzis can't go that fast")
• When my family bought here in 1956, it wasn't about the boating so much as living on "Golden Pond". Now that we on Lake Winnipesaukee have learned that 6% of Loon mortality is due to boats—
it was time.
(Not including
human mortality rates here).
• Just Friday, a Loon surfaced next to me on the dock, and promptly dove "from the danger"—resurfacing only 20-feet further away.
• Loons can dive for two minutes or even much longer. Loons aren't checking for Donzis when they resurface for air—
nor are Donzis checking for Loons...
