speed limits on the Lake

[steve-on-mark]

The slower a boat travels, the more of the vee is in the water...it essentially becomes a lake plow, and yes, the waves are much larger!

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[Descant]

Yes, there is a bill filed in the legislature to eliminate the 45 mph speed limit. Some really fast boats e.g. Bass Boats make almost no wake at all at speed. Some slower boats e.g. wake or ballast boats make huge wakes at slower speeds.
I know of boats with lots of horsepower that go to FL in the winter and use their speed there for a quick run to the Bahamas, but on the lake, yes, the horsepower is unused. At leas, the outboards are a lot quieter than the big inboards with Captain's Call switches on the above water exhausts. I don't care how fast they go if they're quiet like Bass Boats.

[fatlazyless]

Oh HAPPY day ...... that 45-mph speed limit is going away!

Can hardly wait ...... gonna get me a 27' twin hull Skater-Cat with two 300-hp Merc two-stroke racing engines ...... and away I will go ..... getting up to 107-mph ..... buzzing down the broads.

My 27'- Skater Cat will have a gas pedal as opposed to a hand throttle ..... and make a big two-stroke buzzing sound as it buzzes along at 100-mph+ ........ wwweeeeoooooooo!!! .... ...... high speed boating is HAPPY boating!

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To achieve a NH boat operator's license, you should have to swim 200-yards across the surface of Lake Winnipesaukee and tread water for ten minutes, which is the swim test for Scuba certification. On top of the Lake Winnipesaukee water driving a boat, or under the water with Scuba, the water out there is the same water, so's it should have the same swim test! ... ... hut-hut-hut!