WARNING-For Boaters
 

Last weekend while on the lake I could not believe the amount of stuff / junk in the water.Anything from shoes to branches to parts of docks.And of course I had the found a large 2x8 by about 6 feet long board the hard way.It was just below the surface of the water and could not turn fast enough before hitting it.So anyway just a warning before you go out this weekend becareful and enjoy.

Warning for boaters
 

While boating today along the Broads side of Wolfeboro Neck, traveling north, about even with the Walgreen triple bay boathouse, I noticed a red and white marker bouy I had never seen before at that location. Possibly this is to keep people off shore from the boathouse area, but there are certainly no rocks in that area. Just curious. If you normally boat close to the shore in that area...look out... the red top with get you ! Enjoy your boating.

Blame the rain and high winds
 

Like searay said there's just a lot of everything out there. I pulled some 2x8 and large branches out (the easy way) last Sat. Coming back from Meredith on Sun afternoon you'd have thought several houses had sunk at various points along the way. There would be clumps of debris to manuver around every mile or so (or so it seemed). Most of it was branches which I assume were blown in courtesy of the last storm but there was other dock / raft stuff as well. I pulled in what I could but it's like boating in the 2 weeks after ice out right now. Keep a good lookout :eek:

I found one of those 'clumps'
 

I found one of those clumps of debris on my way out of Meredith bay late on the day last Sunday. Took the tip of one propeller blade off. I had even been warned and was watching out for it, but I saw the stuff too late.

Ken

Junk just keeps on going
 

Finally got an opportunity to get out on the water today and geez I couldn't belive the amount of junk still floating around. When I started out, the pollen flows were amazing (as my eyes have been trying to tell me this past week). While cruising around Rattlesnake, all of a sudden a piece of 2x6, just the kind left from bob houses. Clocked it dead on even temporarily the speedo hole in the out drive ($^@#! Further cruising found plenty of branches and even some small campfire logs. This is the latest in the season I have ever seen so much debris and I can't understand why.

One thing the pollen flows did achieve was helping you find debris. Where you found tons a floating pollen, you typically found debris. Is this the State using a cheap marker system? And yes we fished.

We-e-ellll.....People, if you get your ski-tow rope extricated from your prop after you back over it, please take it back to shore with you. You think you had a hard time taking it out of your prop, think of it getting sucked up into a PWC jet-pump! :(

Bummer Aqua,I've been there before with a dock line spun around my impeller.The worst part is I didn't know it was there and when trying to start it,blew a starter relay which ended my weekend of boating before it begain.I was on the lake this weekend and also found an incredible amount of debris floating everywhere,along with huge pine pollen flows.Most of the debris that I saw were branches with the occasional coke bottle but much more than I have seen in the past.Be carefull out there!! SS

Big Log
 

I saw a great big log on Friday - it must've meen 2 feet in diameter and 3 feet long. Floated with only about 1/2 -1 inch out of the water. I never would've seen it had I not been going at headway speed. Bummer was the thing was so heavy and slippery I couldn't even manage to get it out of the water...

Chamois cloth
 

My wife and her friend were out on a brand new sea doo and almost sucked up a CHAMOIS cloth. That would have been an expensive repair bill! :(

According to Bizer, there is a rock there. It's on my paper chart and my C-Map chart but the marker is on neither. I must've just missed that rock countless times. Glad to see a marker if Bizer is right and I bet they are...

BOTH are there!
 

There is both a rock ledge and new marker there, which I mentioned in May.

As camp guy has implied, the marker kind of "sticks out into" the normal traffic pattern there, so it will likely become a headache for the people who do Winnipesaukee's marker maintenance.

(The marker does not appear on Bizer's, BTW).

Wolfeboro Matt: I found two smaller "logs" similar to what you are describing. If yours was cut off by chainsaw -- and has no bark -- it may have been one of those dock piling remnants (especially if it was slippery, suggesting no bark).

I think it's the construction-barge people cutting off the tops* and sharpening the tips** of dock pilings.

*...after driving them in, to "level" a new dock piling
**...the bottoms of pilings to a point -- to drive them in faster.

Somebody needs a talking-to about where to discard "the excess".

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I was very happy to see this marker had finally been installed at Umbrella Point. We DESTROYED a prop there once, not knowing about the huge piece of ledge....

Marker?
 

This one, off Walgreen's?