Maine law will restrict wakesurf boats

[Boatymcboatface]

The two boat videos dumping trash in the other thread don’t help either.

 

[SkyDirtWaterguy]

Waiting for the ban on the BIG Cats hauling ass up and down the river between Havasu and Needles. Should there be a 35Mph speed limit for safety purposes? Where does banning things end?

 

[Blackmagic94]

Having spent little time in Parker it’s hard for me to understand fully, but from what I’ve seen, there is ZERO reason to surf at Parker. MAYBE down towards casino, but that’s a MAYBE.

There is zero reason to wake tractor anywhere. Dumbest shit ever. If you like wake board boats I hope you get gential warts.

 

[4Waters]

Waiting for the ban on the BIG Cats hauling ass up and down the river between Havasu and Needles. Should there be a 35Mph speed limit for safety purposes? Where does banning things end?

That's why I said they fucked us too

 

[4Waters]

For the record there are some wake boat owners that are courteous and empty their bags, lookout for low freeboard boats.... one of those guys is a buddy of mine and he knows the fuckwads were eventually gonna fuck it up him.

 

[rrrr]

On April 15th, Vermont passed legislation restricting the use of wakesurfing brodozers. The limitations are common sense operating rules that were needed because almost all Vermont lakes are small.

Wake boats traversing Vermont waterways this summer will have to abide by strict new regulations. The state’s first-ever rule managing wakesports on lakes and ponds took effect April 15 after a two-year-long, citizen-led push.

Though the state’s new rule has been in place for less than a month, some are already pushing to further restrict the activity of such boats.

The creation of the rule was a notable victory for Responsible Wakes for Vermont Lakes, a citizen group that formed in 2021 and petitioned the natural resources agency to restrict wake boats to sharply defined areas.

Members of the group and environmentalists have argued that large wakes can disrupt the sensitive ecology of lake shorelines, such as loon nesting areas. And sudden waves can topple paddle boarders and kayakers nearer to shore.

Up until a month ago, wakesports were allowed anywhere a motor boat could travel more than 5 mph. Under the new rule, wake boats can only create wakes in ‘wake sports zones’, defined as 50 contiguous acres of lake, 500 feet away from the shoreline on all sides, and in water at least 20 feet deep.

The new parameters cut the number of lakes and ponds Vermonters can wakeboard in from 73 down to 30. The rules do not apply to waters that share borders with other states and countries, such as Lake Champlain, Wallace Pond, Lake Memphremagog, and the Connecticut River reservoirs.

Vermont’s 1st-ever wake boats rule is now in effect, but some are pushing for further restrictions - VTDigger

Laura Dlugolecki, of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, has called the new rule the “most protective wake sport regulation in the country to date.”

vtdigger.org

 

[OCMerrill]

Please bring this law to the river. It would effectively ban those boats in Parker.

The only place on the strip thats deep is the cliff face between Echo and Big Bend. Nearly 50' deep at the rock face.
So they have a football field of length to surf and thats it.

 

[Icky]

The only place on the strip thats deep is the cliff face between Echo and Big Bend. Nearly 50' deep at the rock face.
So they have a football field of length to surf and thats it.

The law says 500' from shore on all sides..... don't thinks there's any section 1000' wide in parker

 

[OCMerrill]

The law says 500' from shore on all sides..... don't thinks there's any section 1000' wide in parker

Even more better-er.

 

[rivermobster]

The only place on the strip thats deep is the cliff face between Echo and Big Bend. Nearly 50' deep at the rock face.
So they have a football field of length to surf and thats it.

Still too much.

 

[Sleek-Jet]

And so it begins...

Now, the fight to further restrict wake boats has passed to local lake organizations. Forty-eight of these volunteer-run groups are part of the Federation of Vermont Lakes and Ponds, a nonprofit dedicated to the well-being of the state’s lakes.

As of Friday, petitions from five of these organizations have been filed with the Department of Environmental Conservation, asking the state to prohibit wakesports in six more lakes.

My guess is within a decade motorized boating of any kind will be restricted in Vermont. And activists in other states are paying attention.

So congratulations, you got what you wanted.

 

[4Waters]

And so it begins...



My guess is within a decade motorized boating of any kind will be restricted in Vermont. And activists in other states are paying attention.

So congratulations, you got what you wanted.

Fuckers ruined it for those of us that were respectful