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Originally Posted by Evenstar
FYI: Speeding boats do not make a lake more exciting for kayaks - We count on Mother Nature to do that.
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Here's a perfect example of why this law will not work. Again, there are already laws on the books protecting you and others from speeding boats. Its called the 150ft head way speed regulation. But yet again, this reg. is not enforced except by happenstance. I fish a lot on this lake and have been several places where boats come by me on plane within casting distance of a fishing lure. What do I do? I grin and bear it. Thats life and there are law breakers everywhere, even on the water.
Look at the Graveyard outside 19 mile bay. Regs. say you have to go headway speed through all channels but I've seen on more occasions than not boats going through the channel on plane. Again, a law on the books, unenforced except by happenstance.
A speed limit on the lake will not make you safer. Maybe a bicycle flag on your Kayak would help instead.
I recall one evening watching a flock of Kayakers leaving the town docks, at dusk, with these tiny little lamps attached to their Kayaks. The funny thing is, if the Kayaker was paddling away from you the light was blocked by their body but I'm sure they would have been the first to complain if a boat hadn't seen their candle in the wind.
Mind you, I am a canoer as well and have spent a lot of time on the big lake as both a power boater and a canoer. If I take my canoe out, I assume the risk of bringing a little water craft onto a big lake.
You say you like big waves on the lake? Well, anything over a 2 foot chop eliminates any boat less than 25 feet in length from going over 30 mph, unless the driver wants to pick their teeth up off of the floor.
Do what they did in Meredith Bay and make some areas headway speed. Thats fine, but leave the open lake open.
Another poor example of legislation was the year that the lake levels were so high that a headway speed rule was imposed for the entire lake because of landowners complaints regarding their shorelines eroding away. The funniest thing I saw during this period were boats going headway speed in in the broads while 3 foot rollers passed them by. Again, another example of the will of the few out weighing the good of the many.
I'm sure I'm saying things that have already been said but I've just started reading all the hoopla over this bill.