How many boats on the Lake

[iw8surf]

Originally Posted by Descant

In the midst of the speed limit furor I believe the Concord Monitor, via helicopter, counted ~1600 boats actually boating, not anchored or docked. This was on a beautiful July 4. That's about 27 acres apiece. If 200 of them were in the channel and Paugus, that's over 30 acres each. Not really so crowded are we?

How long ago was this?

[boat_guy64]

Utilizing the same method as in my previous post. Laconia has at least 1114 boats.

Meredith - 1412
Laconia - 1114

Lots of really interesting docks and shoreline as I look around.

On to Gilford?

[boat_guy64]

Same method.....Jets and Broncos game isn't the game of the week so I went back to counting


Gilford - 1697 boats
Laconia - 1114
Meredith - 1412

So....three towns down - 4223 boats so far

[Phantom]

Originally Posted by boat_guy64

Same method.....Jets and Broncos game isn't the game of the week so I went back to counting


Gilford - 1697 boats
Laconia - 1114
Meredith - 1412

So....three towns down - 4223 boats so far

How many boats did you account for at MVYC & Fay's ………….. I think your method is flawed.

[boat_guy64]

I actually wrote down the MVYC number

It was 244 docks + 160 valet = 404.
I was in the rack system years ago and can't remember if it was 2 or three boats high. I assumed 2.
I didn't count the valet docks and made a guess at the number of boats in the valet racks.

I bet I'm correct within a 100 And if not....it was all for fun.


BTW.....Alton has 1387....so a sub total of 5610 so far.

[LIforrelaxin]

Originally Posted by boat_guy64

I actually wrote down the MVYC number

It was 244 docks + 160 valet = 404.
I was in the rack system years ago and can't remember if it was 2 or three boats high. I assumed 2.
I didn't count the valet docks and made a guess at the number of boats in the valet racks.

I bet I'm correct within a 100 And if not....it was all for fun.


BTW.....Alton has 1679....so a sub total of 5902 so far.

I have a minute so with the Towns you have labored to count at this point, we have 5.9K boats:

5.9K * 13.6K = 80.2M
5.9K * 80K = 472M

Averaged that give us ~$276M

[boat_guy64]

Disclaimer....I counted them but I'm sure I made lots of mistakes, got lost a few times, got interrupted, I'm getting old...

With that said

Meredith - 1412
Laconia - 1114
Gilford - 1697
Alton - 1387
Wolfeboro - 540
Tuftonboro - 871
Moultonborough - 1970
Center Harbor - 59
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Total - 9050

[MotorHead]

How do you come-up with these numbers.
I am sure you did not count every single boat.

I have also been curious about gas usage on a summer weekend.
How many gallons ?

[boat_guy64]

Originally Posted by MotorHead

How do you come-up with these numbers.
I am sure you did not count every single boat.

I have also been curious about gas usage on a summer weekend.
How many gallons ?

As best as I could with the method described earlier in the thread, I counted them. Learned a lot about the lake following every foot of shorefront and have some places to boat to that I've seen on the map that I haven't been to yet.

[Slickcraft]

Originally Posted by boat_guy64

As best as I could with the method described earlier in the thread, I counted them. Learned a lot about the lake following every foot of shorefront and have some places to boat to that I've seen on the map that I haven't been to yet.

How did you deal with the islands? At any given time islands boats may be on island or at a marina or at town docks like Glendale or on a trailer or under way.

[LIforrelaxin]

Originally Posted by boat_guy64

Disclaimer....I counted them but I'm sure I made lots of mistakes, got lost a few times, got interrupted, I'm getting old...

With that said

Meredith - 1412
Laconia - 1114
Gilford - 1697
Alton - 1387
Wolfeboro - 540
Tuftonboro - 871
Moultonborough - 1970
Center Harbor - 59
------------------------------------
Total - 9050

have a minute so with the Towns you have l counted at this point, we have ~ 9K boats:

9K * 13.6K = 122.4M
9K * 80K = 720M

Averaged that give us ~$421M

[TiltonBB]

Originally Posted by boat_guy64

I actually wrote down the MVYC number

It was 244 docks + 160 valet = 404.

Mountain View has 284 slips plus trailer boats under 20 feet.

[boat_guy64]

Originally Posted by TiltonBB

Mountain View has 284 slips plus trailer boats under 20 feet.

I didn't include the 22 valet docks but I'll claim close enough.

[TiltonBB]

Originally Posted by boat_guy64

I didn't include the 22 valet docks but I'll claim close enough.

The 284 slips are the slips that have owners. The valet slips are a different story but I would assume that the count you used for valet boats would include that since those slips are not assigned to a specific boat.

[KPW]

Now you just need to sit at the ramps and count the day trippers.

[Descant]

Originally Posted by iw8surf

How long ago was this?

Probably 10 years plus. There are hundreds of posts about speed limits in the Issues section of the Forums. Around 2008, the number of boats on the lake started dropping along with the economy. There were vacancies, auction sales, boats stored, where now there are waiting lists for slips and valet. We are now back up to those numbers I thin k.