Marking Rocks with a buoy?

[tis]

I think you should be able to but ask some people on Chases Island. They tried to mark rocks because people kept going on the wrong side of the buoy and they were told they were not allowed.

[DEJ]

Good memory Tis. Here is the Marine Patrol position regarding home made markers.

The New Hampshire Marine Patrol takes a lot of
initiative to ensure public bodies of water are adequately marked for safe
boating; so you are correct that "private" markers are not approved on navigable
waters across the state. Typically if a "home-made" navigational aid is located
it is removed. While the intention is good, to your point, if everyone took it
upon themselves to "courtesy mark" what they perceived as a navigational hazard
may cause greater confusion to those trying to navigate an already precarious
body of water.

If there is concern that an area needs to be marked differently than it
presently is we encourage folks to contact us. On occasion we do add
navigational aids or have moved existing ones that may have come off station due
to ice flows or tampering.

Of course we always encourage boaters to use a navigational chart and to take
advantage of the many electronic devices available to ensure safe boating.
However most importantly folks need to slow down and not boat faster than their
knowledge and abilities allow.

Please don't hesitate to contact me with any further questions - respectfully,

Joshua Dirth, Sgt.
Division of State Police
Marine Patrol
31 Dock Road
Gilford, NH 03249
www.nh.gov/safety/divisions/nhsp/

[chasedawg]

Originally Posted by tis

I think you should be able to but ask some people on Chases Island. They tried to mark rocks because people kept going on the wrong side of the buoy and they were told they were not allowed.

Yes that is correct. We put out two red detergent bottles and the Marine Patrol came by and removed them. Too bad because people hit the same rocks about every other day. Yesterday a very new boat hit the rocks and I'm sure the lower unit and prop were damaged. When they hit the sound is awful. The engine actually pops up. Some boaters just keep going. There are two black and white markers indicating which way to pass. But many people still pass on the wrong side. We see this often. We wave yell to warn them. They just wave back. Then it is too late.

[tis]

Originally Posted by chasedawg

Yes that is correct. We put out two red detergent bottles and the Marine Patrol came by and removed them. Too bad because people hit the same rocks about every other day. Yesterday a very new boat hit the rocks and I'm sure the lower unit and prop were damaged. When they hit the sound is awful. The engine actually pops up. Some boaters just keep going. There are two black and white markers indicating which way to pass. But many people still pass on the wrong side. We see this often. We wave yell to warn them. They just wave back. Then it is too late.

I remember you writing about that and thinking it is too bad because you were just trying to help people.

[Woodsy]

The MP will not mark anything within the 150' buffer zone around the shoreline... It is long standing tradition that people all over the state mark the inshore rocks with white clorox bottles. For some reason the MP does seem to have an issue if brightly colored bottles are used.

Woodsy

[ITD]

I would just "remind" others before they come. But if the rocks are in front of your property, I suppose marking is fine, although it is apparently not fine with MP. But marking things in front of someone else's property is not neighborly...

[fatlazyless]

The Town of Center Harbor has a newly installed park bench in the grass lawn area at their Lake Winnipesaukee town docks commemorating Tup Goodhue, with a plaque on it that says he was the keeper of Nipple Rock since 1960.

Nipple Rock is a rock ledge type of boat hazard with a recognizable shape above the lake water surface, located out there between Round, Camp, Breezy, Forty, and Fish Islands. So for 60-years of ice, wind, rain, sun and water spray, Tup kept the Nipple Rock paint job looking good with a new paint re-do.

[fatlazyless]

The ultimate rock marker: Laconia Daily Sun, April 6, 2016 says in a brief article with a photo that local airplane pilot Bill Hemmel reports that Nipple Rock looks like it has been painted with a coat of bright new paint.

http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...php?photo=3269

Nipple Rock has Flasher Buoy 46 atop it, plus is painted with red and white paint over the last sixty years.

Nipple Rock is looking for a secret volunteer artist to maintain and carry forward the sixty year long tradition of painting it with red and white paint.

Anyone know, was April 2016 the last time it got freshened up with new paint?

[VitaBene]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

The ultimate rock marker: Laconia Daily Sun, April 6, 2016 says in a brief article with a photo that local airplane pilot Bill Hemmel reports that Nipple Rock looks like it has been painted with a coat of bright new paint.

http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...php?photo=3269

Nipple Rock has Flasher Buoy 46 atop it, plus is painted with red and white paint over the last sixty years.

Nipple Rock is looking for a secret volunteer artist to maintain and carry forward the sixty year long tradition of painting it with red and white paint.

Anyone know, was April 2016 the last time it got freshened up with new paint?

It was painted after 2016! TUPPY