Cabin Cruiser Operators - "WAKE UP!...no, WAKE DOWN"!

[Dave R]

Originally Posted by Island Lover

Why is that methods that work at hundreds or thousands of other lakes are immediate considered impossible and unworkable on Winnipesaukee?

Thousands of lakes have speed limits with little on no enforcement problems. Many NH lakes have them without problems.

Lake Tappan in Ohio has a 299 horsepower limit that works very well. I'm sure we will now hear all the differences between Lake Tappan and Lake Winnipesaukee.

So, I got bored and looked up Tappan Lake in Ohio on the interweb. It has a surface area of 2,350 acres. Winnipesaukee has 45,000+ acres. Slight difference. HP limits on Ohio lakes are an exception, rather than the rule, BTW. Lakes substantailly smaller than Tappan Lake have no HP limit.

But to be fair, lets follow the Tappan Lake model and see where it goes for a bigger lake:

To adjust for the slight difference in lake surface area, we should take the Tappan Lake HP limit and adjust it linearly for the difference in acreage to fit Winnipesaukee. That comes to roughly 5700 HP, I suspect most could live with that. Alternatively, to try to be more like the rest of Ohio, we could look at HP limits on larger lakes in Ohio and adjust down from there. Lake Erie is pretty big and borders Ohio. It is 138 times bigger than Winnipesaukee and has no HP limit. Lets see, null divided by 138 = null. Hey, look at that, we are already compliant!

Seriously, if you like the idea of lakes with HP, displacement, and speed limits, why on earth would you have a place on Winnipesaukee? From what I hear, there's thousands of lakes with speed limits and no enforcement problems; why don't you live on one of them instead? There's one really close by and a whole state full of them just south of us...