Hewitt Swim Raft

Island-Ho · 02-26-2009, 12:49 PM

Before buying any foam filled floats be sure to ask if the foam is "closed cell". If it is not it will absorb water if you get any kind of crack or hole in the plastic a few years down the road. It will still float, but it will be extremely! heavy to move.

codeman671 · 03-01-2009, 08:15 AM

I saw this on craigslist yesterday.

http://nh.craigslist.org/boa/1054312644.html

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fatlazyless · 03-01-2009, 12:16 PM

Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like a lot of floating rafts are set out in front of the waterfront homee with two purposes; one, as a swim raft, and two, as a protective buffer to keep moving boaters away from the shoreline area. It's a strategy that pretty much is successfull, too. Wood, aluminum, vinyl, and colorfull, trampolene style rafts get positioned to protect the nearby turf.

A proposal requiring NH Marine Patrol permits for rafts, similar to what exists for moorings, was initiated a year or two ago, and it died in the legislature. With the Marine Patrol director currently seeking to increase boat registration fees so's to help pay for MP operations, it just could be that an annual raft permit should be considered again?

Gee whiz....maybe I could get a job as the MP raft

inspector! First thing I'd do is I'd drive all over the lake and slap big fines on those ugly bright blue and yellow ugly trampolenes...for not blending....give em a not-blending ticket....if your raft does not look like an old gray, weathered lumber raft that been around since President Nixon, then you get a ticket

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SIKSUKR · 03-02-2009, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Gee whiz....maybe I could get a job as the MP raft

inspector! First thing I'd do is I'd drive all over the lake and slap big fines on those ugly bright blue and yellow ugly trampolenes...for not blending....give em a not-blending ticket....if your raft does not look like an old gray, weathered lumber raft that been around since President Nixon, then you get a ticket

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I know what you mean.I feel the same way about shiney aluminum boats.

ishoot308 · 03-02-2009, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by codeman671

I saw this on craigslist yesterday.

http://nh.craigslist.org/boa/1054312644.html

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Yup, emailed the add and it was from Production Trailer and Dock out of Meredith. Seem to be pretty decent folks there.

Dan

02-26-2009, 12:49 PM	#1
Island-Ho Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 178 Thanks: 19 Thanked 14 Times in 11 Posts	Foam Before buying any foam filled floats be sure to ask if the foam is "closed cell". If it is not it will absorb water if you get any kind of crack or hole in the plastic a few years down the road. It will still float, but it will be extremely! heavy to move.

03-01-2009, 12:16 PM	#3
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,764 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 300 Thanked 1,016 Times in 740 Posts	Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like a lot of floating rafts are set out in front of the waterfront homee with two purposes; one, as a swim raft, and two, as a protective buffer to keep moving boaters away from the shoreline area. It's a strategy that pretty much is successfull, too. Wood, aluminum, vinyl, and colorfull, trampolene style rafts get positioned to protect the nearby turf. A proposal requiring NH Marine Patrol permits for rafts, similar to what exists for moorings, was initiated a year or two ago, and it died in the legislature. With the Marine Patrol director currently seeking to increase boat registration fees so's to help pay for MP operations, it just could be that an annual raft permit should be considered again? Gee whiz....maybe I could get a job as the MP raft inspector! First thing I'd do is I'd drive all over the lake and slap big fines on those ugly bright blue and yellow ugly trampolenes...for not blending....give em a not-blending ticket....if your raft does not look like an old gray, weathered lumber raft that been around since President Nixon, then you get a ticket ! __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake! Last edited by fatlazyless; 03-02-2009 at 09:20 AM.

03-01-2009, 08:15 AM	#2
codeman671 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 3,501 Thanks: 221 Thanked 816 Times in 489 Posts	I saw this on craigslist yesterday. http://nh.craigslist.org/boa/1054312644.html .