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01-04-2024, 03:03 PM | #1 |
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New Bill Regarding Wake Surfing?
Was forwarded this today regarding a new bill being discussed in a legislative hearing this month - I was unaware that something like this was even being considered - curious as to who/what initiated this bill.
Perhaps this is already known to everyone here and I'm out of the loop? (Joke) >>>> HB 1301, establishes a process whereby 25 shorefront/local property owners can petition the Department of Safety for a public hearing to ban or restrict wake surfing on a body of water. <<<< |
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01-04-2024, 03:57 PM | #3 |
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The LSR would have been listed with the title.
The bill lists the prime sponsor and two additional. You could contact the prime and ask which person or group initiated it. |
01-04-2024, 04:03 PM | #4 |
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Who do I write to endorse the bill?
The wakes on Winni have become absurd. The erosion gets worse every year. Hoping the bill passes!! I am sure numerous posts will now show how wakes and wakeboarding are good for the lake. I too hate regulations, but when people abuse their "rights, "
the governing bodies need to step up and protect. Anyway, any help with emails to write to would be appreciated. |
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This seems to parallel the process for a group to get together to ban PWC's a long time ago, in certain coves and some lakes. Mostly, PWC's don't make much wake. but they were very noisy. Not so many years ago, the Winni speed limit was passed. Part of that issue was, again, noise. If you can get the wake surfers to turn off their amplified music, there will be fewer objections. Nobody surfs near me, so that isn't an issue, but I hear the noise (music) from miles away.
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will.darby@leg.state.nh.us Not sure of what the outcome will be... but I suspect that some lakes will be left more open... and the concern is the spill over to the smaller lakes. |
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To me, the difference is, a PWC will go by once and may pass by on the way back home. The wakeboats, with their loud sound systems, sometimes blasting "music" loaded with F bombs, set up in one area and repeatedly go back and forth until everyone on the boat has a turn. I am amazed that the operators of these boats have so little regard for the damage they do and the number of shore line residents that are negatively impacted by them. Many time I have had to close the windows and turn the TV volume up just to hear it over the noise generated by the wakeboats, sometimes boats that are a mile away. The large waves generated wash over the retaining wall onto the lawn. I would love to see this bill pass but I am sure the marine trades groups will be agressively fighting it. |
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The PWC may pass by you once, same as a GFBL, but on a 300-500 acre pond or cove, they just keep circling. This bill isn't just for Winnipesaukee. |
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01-05-2024, 12:26 PM | #9 |
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I have a wakeboarder 'living' next door to me.
They leave their wake-boat fully ballasted all summer, so even at 'no wake' speed, its causing massive waves that are slowly damaging/stressing shoreline and floating dock/rafts, and moored boats. Their 3 teenagers & friends are in/out all day, all weekend. I will give them credit for waiting till they get out of the bay before they 'board'; but they NEVER de-ballast ....... grrrr. I guess, from my point of view, restricting my neighbor to wake-board on the broads will have no positive effect unless it requires 'de-ballasting' before leaving the broads (something not practically enforcable). |
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It's not just wakeboard boats that are making big waves. We have over 25 feet boats that go by our place on the big lake all day in the summer, that cruise by at 10-15 mph with the bow up creating wakes 200 feet from shore that rival the wake of the Mount. I can't keep my boat at the dock without it ripping at the lines. At least the wakeboarders stay out from shore. I don't see a solution to the problem unless you include all boats. Good luck with that.
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01-26-2024, 03:33 PM | #13 |
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Hey Retired, have you tried dock line snubbers to reduce the strain on dock lines? They work for me. Check West Marine.
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This is bill HB1390 that is in committee right now...it solves the issue in small coves and really protects the shore lands. Finally a solid bill !! Vote to support it !!
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Thankyou for your time & effort in posting the wakeboarding proposal. They all sound like reasonable rules. Sadly, it does not address a requirement for wakeboats to be 'ballasted' only when 'waking' a skier. I don't have a problem with wakeboating 'proper'. But, I do have a problem with boats going to/from their fun with ballasted boats!; if you can follow what I'm very awkwardly trying to describe. J |
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There can be built-in tanks, filled and emptied by pump, and hard ballast bags (eg. bag filled with steel shot). Many boats apparently are simply built to be heavy and carry a full complement of people and gear. The weight and shape of many of these make a big wake even without filling their ballast tanks. As to fill or drain time, the numbers I saw in my brief search are on the order of 4-10 minutes each way. I can imagine that adding 20 minutes of "down time" to an outing would be too much for the patience of some of these operators. |
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I watched the hearing for SB 431 which is the 200' rule and it seemed to me that the consensus was it wasn't enough so they will look at it some more. One thing one of the members said was that it was inconsquential to Winnipesaukee because it is so big which is not true at all because of the coves and harbors. Some of these areas are not as wide as the smaller lakes.
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Maybe a couple reasons... PWC long ago went to 300 feet. So for larger craft with more displacement, they probably expect at least that.
Inconsequential could also mean that due to the size of Winnipesuakee, it left plenty of area to operate without even coming close to shore. Even the 500 foot proposal shows plenty of open area. |
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I'm not sure that's the exact word he used, but you make a good point. |
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They need to try the 500 foot deal fro a year and see if things improve for all parties.
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They are pushing wakeboats to 500’. While 500’ still allows plenty of area on Winnipesaukee, it adversely pushes those partaking in wakesports into busier, rougher waters. |
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Will there be enforcement? Hell no. There aren’t enough resources to police it, just like the other laws on the books. Start with enforcing safe passage first. This will make the lake a safer place. |
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The DOS NH Boating Laws and Responsibilities Handbook states on Page 48...
Requirements Specific to Ski Craft. It is illegal to operate a ''ski craft'' within a cove (a bay or inlet that does not exceed 1000 feet at its widest point) or within 300 feet of shore unless the ''ski craft'' is proceeding at headway speed directly to an area where ''ski craft'' operation is permitted. So unless it is an old handbook on-line... the regulation is 300 feet from the shore. It is copyrighted 2022. Moving all vessels to the 300 foot rule may be what is being considered. Lots of operators do not own lakefront... so changing the course of the lake quality would either be placing some restraints on them; or just focusing on shore front owners and placing severe restraints on them. Not exactly sure that is fair to the shore front owner. |
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I used to boat... and ride a Yamaha Waverunner.
The advent of the three-seater allowed more vessels to operate closer to shore. Since they now are seeing bigger problems with nutrient erosion into the lakes... they want to stop that erosion. So they are probably going to seek a reset... Making the 300' rule on the ''ski craft'' doesn't seem to settle the problem from the lake side. The other option is to go hard against the shore line owners... something that doesn't seem quite fair. They obviously want to lower the incidence of blooms, more importantly keep them from expanding. Since the quality of the lakes effects all owners (residents), the means to achieve that in a balanced manner is what they are seeking. I just don't think the precedent they set with defining a specific vessel (ski craft) and placing special restrictions on them is something they should keep doing. Set one standard for everyone. |
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Over-sized and Overfull in Spring...
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The dam operators have the lake overfull for today's over-sized boats. Against these wakes' erosion, I need a tight row of bollards; then maybe, a thick wall of large boulders to break up their wakes' powerful thrusting. Is this allowed? No... |
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02-04-2024, 08:26 AM | #30 |
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...... here's a waterfront erosion control fix from the big wakes for the waterfront home owner ........ www.slingbag.net/erosion.html ......
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New bill regarding wake surfing?
I am sure people will think I've been smokin' too much wacky-tobaccy, but I have a really crazy idea: If boat operators exercised common sense and common courtesy, 99.9% of all these problems would vanish.
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So true! I hate new rules and regulations, but unfortunately people don't have common sense and courtesy. But then what would the legislators do?
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What planet might that be practiced on? |
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They are focused on erosion.
And resources are easy to come by... that is why they make us register. |
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Bill is now dead.
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