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Originally Posted by Woodsy
This what the City Council leased out.... They could have just rented the red circled area....
Woodsy
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What is missing or just does not show in this aerial photo is the swimmer's rope line that separates the swim area from the boating area. The rope line is estimated by me to be 250-yards long, has many floats attached to it and the water depth under the swim rope line is about six to seven feet deep with a very smooth sandy bottom. Just inside the 250-yard swim line is like an excellent place to practice swimming, alone, what with the floating rope line right there in case you have a problem.
The entry/exit Weirs channel buoy markers for the nearby Weirs channel are located well out beyond the swimmer's rope line so this area just beyond the rope line has always been a relatively safe place for sups and kayaks because the motorboats tend to not go there much, at all. The motorboats travel within the channel markers without circling around and stopping just out beyond the swimmer's rope line does not seem to happen.
It seems that pedal boats, sups, and kayaks canoes in use by paddlers and pedalers, just out beyond the swim rope line is a good welcome use because these small vessels are all human powered, without motors.
And maybe someday, the City of Laconia will once again be able to hire lifeguards to occupy the two vacant, unoccupied lifeguard high look-out seats that still exist on the sandy beach. Just because many of the beach visiters on the Weirs sandy beach ...
http://www.laconianh.gov/1034/Weirs-...cott-Rock-Park ..... are Hispanic who come from the Lowell and Lawrence area in Massachusetts was not much of a reason for Laconia to discontinue their lifeguards, there. "Lifeguards ...... what lifeguards ..... we don't need no lifeguards at that Weirs Beach ..... everyone over there comes from Lowell and Lawrence ...... while people from Laconia all go to Bond Beach on Lake Opechee" ...... which has lifeguards and swimming lessons and ....
www.laconianh.gov/1035/Bond-Beach ..... amenities.
"Ningun Salvavidas en Servico Nadar a Su" is Spanish for "No Lifeguards - SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK"
Adding a pedal, paddle, small vessel rental venue to the Weirs town docks will collect customers from both the beach users, and the people walking along the Lakeside Ave boardwalk area who see the small boats out on the water just beyond the swim rope line and think ..... hey, just look at these little pedal/paddle boats ... out there!