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Originally Posted by TiltonBB
Wait until one of the paddle boats goes down the Weirs Channel in the spring and then tries to paddle back against the current.
Even if they are told not to go there, you know they will.
This could get interesting!  |
Excerpt from the Laconia Daily Sun, Dec 6, 2022 ...... 'Pedal boat business will set up ship at the Weirs' ...... by Catherine McLaughlin:
"A small motorized chase vessel will be on the water to ensure all abide by the time limits, stay safely out of the way of incoming dock traffic and able to return to the dock." so's their rental boat safety launch could go tow a rental pedal boat that got in trouble back up the current in the Weirs Channel, or something. After that happens just once, management will probably tell all their renters to stay the heck out of the channel because it has a current and a gazillion angry motor boats in that super crowded parade of NH-boats moving in two directions in the very crowded Weirs channel.
It also says "Weirs Beach Pedal boats will have six five-person pedal boats for adults: two shaped like ducks, two like swans and two like dragons. In the semi-enclosed space inside the footbridge will be an area for kiddie boats."
Renting a pedal boat could maybe be a big popular hit with beach goers there, on the sandy beach, who could pedal their pedal boat just outside the swim rope line. One pedal boat can hold up to five people and I believe it actually has four sets of pedals for four people to pedal it along through the Winnipesaukee-Weirs Beach waters, so it becomes a fun group pedal, water, activity with the fifth seat designed to hold a young child. Beach goers sitting on the nearby sandy beach could be engaged to go rent a pedal boat for one hour after they watch these boats slowly move across the lake, out front of the swim area.
Lots of small boat visibility from the beach and from the Lakeside Ave-boardwalk with the big water view should help this new business find customers and add a welcome new boat experience to the Weirs waterfront as they get pedaled across the beautiful Lake Winnipesaukee waters.