As to "doing-business", isn't there a long sandbar off West Alton?
If that's the case, family-boaters would leave Braun Bay to "those others".
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Originally Posted by The Real BigGuy
I wouldn’t worry about wind and waves too much. One of the lake construction co’s has a 60 ft barge powered by twin 250’s. He manages to maneuver in most summer weather conditions with a 15 ton excavator, skid steer, and a load of sand or gravel. That being said, don’t think you’ll see me at “The Dive” in high wind/high wave conditions. I wish them well though.
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One barge overturned here in 2004, and another barge tipped a Bobcat into the lake recently—neither barge had a second story.
https://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums...read.php?t=627
https://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums...read.php?t=647
Barges have an advantage of sheer "mass" and less windage aloft. They can navigate against a shoreline at a favored "haunt", drop their corner docking posts and ride-out most any weather. ("Favored haunt" meaning, shorelines where they'd been a familiar sight—or Johnson's Cove, where three barges have been seen sheltered at the same time, including overnights).
If a cell (or
microburst) should come across the lake,
The Dive can also run aground, even allowing water to flood into its hulls—to be pumped out later. That is, if the "cell" can be seen in time for such countermeasures. (In my own experience,
about five minutes is all the time you've got).
"Flooding" barge hulls can also be inadvertent!
