Dave R, you point out a subject already brought up in another thread. It has yet to be answered. My feeling is that a speed limit is only an incremental step toward what many really want, All noisey motor boats off the lake! Something will happen that will probably be under the speed limit and those that now complain about boats coming to close to kayaks due to speed will point at the incident and call for the next step. Prudent speed is a given with or with out speed limits, but since the speed limit did not work let's restrict HP to under 10. That will slow all the boats down to paddle speed! A few years later we'll use pollution as a reason to ban those 9.9's. Then the lake will be the quiet place they want to paddle about in. No loud boats only the sounds of those lovely paddles propelling them about the lake. Of course then the Loons may ban together and want to restrict the kayacks to a paddle the size of a drinking straw. There's another point, kayaks should slow to no paddle speed within 150 of a swimmer (Loon). Should they not?
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