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Originally Posted by John Mercier
The bills are sort of hodge-podge. Maybe make a suggestion that all motorized vessels have the same shoreland/object setbacks and restrictions on headway speed?
The bills can be amended to such.
That way no group feels like they are being singled out.
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That's a great suggestion, John, and you're right about the bills being hodge-podge. We took our PWCs to Lake George this past summer, and it had a similar set of hodge-podge rules.
PWCs are limited to 5 MPH within 500' of shore, but for boats the limit drops to 100'. I asked the parks commission about it, and they said they want to protect the shoreline, especially in areas where there are lots of islands that are less than 1000' apart.
That didn't make much sense because boats can go fast in much of those areas, and their wakes could be big. Wouldn't it make more sense to limit speeds for all vessels in those areas.