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Originally Posted by Belmont Resident
Twin engines capable of 5 knots throws up a huge wake.
Better watch out it might upset baby ducks or loons.
Bummer about the fuel though.
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Diesel fuel is life-threatening to ducks and loons -- not wakes; however, wakes will cause damage to loon
nests, and loons will abandon them.
(Peaceful boaters already knew that).
That barge flip has great interest to me.
It's not easy to tell that barge from the photo of its underside for certain, but one
Lakeshore Construction barge didn't appear at its usual "home site" yesterday at 5PM.
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One season (2000), I picked the brain of that barge's operator as he repaired the winter damage to my dock -- and have been providing that dock information to this Forum. I also congratulated him on the obvious skills he brought to the handling of that barge. Later, as he criss-crossed The Broads to the islands, we'd exchange a wave -- from
non-wake barge to
non-wake sailboat.
This past week, my family reported that the barge appeared to be practicing rotating the front-end loader around on the barge
while under way -- alternately tilting the barge from port to starboard -- (
side to side for offshores). They also experienced a
gasoline fuel spill last Saturday at their "home-site". (Yes, they work weekends, and transported loam -- presumably to an island -- on Memorial Day-Monday!)
Later, I encountered my buddy-operator at a New Durham yard sale, and he suggested (but didn't actually state) that something to do with wages caused him to leave his barge-operator job at the end of last season.
'Wonder if his
old job is now available -- with a fat wage increase
*** "Home site" is a different multi-millionaire's lakefront private residence, and has been for four years. Remember "Nancy L's" Forum comment?
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"...Is it who you know in this City...?"
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