Lake level NO wake Please

[islandAl]

Just came back from the island and putting rocks and cement blocks on the docks to keep them in the water. Also tried to wave a fellow boater to slow down but he gave me a blank look and kept going about 15 mph creating a giant wake. Those wakes cause the docks to lift and break up. Please, please watch your wake.

Also, heard from two very different sources that they are putting sand bags on top of the dam to decrease the flow for downstream flood protection. Does not jive with the data on the lake level charts???
Much more rain forecast for Sun, Mon and Tues.

Here's hoping for a late freeze so they can get the levels down.

Pulled a dead head out of the lake. Thats a log floating with just one end barely sticking up. It was about 5 inch diameter and 10 feet long. Real boat or engine killer. The wakes also break these thing free from whereever they had been.

[fatlazyless]

Hi - my aluminum dock is totally underwater too, and what works for me is 32 gal plastic or rubber trash cans filled with water. After the lake level goes down just dump the water back into the lake.

[ApS]

Originally Posted by islandAl

Just came back from the island and putting rocks and cement blocks on the docks to keep them in the water. Also tried to wave a fellow boater to slow down but he gave me a blank look and kept going about 15 mph creating a giant wake. Those wakes cause the docks to lift and break up. Please, please watch your wake.

Yup. Had a white/2x-turquoise-stripe/white 25-footer do the same thing — complete with blank stare — though it was too late to signal.

There were several very heavy wind gusts last night. We're still getting tree-flattener gusts this morning at 8:30AM, too.

Wonder where those construction barges are securely tied up this year?

A friend of mine sent a severe weather link showing a Hurricane Wilma model making a tour of Cape Cod in a week.

Originally Posted by islandAl

Pulled a deadhead out of the lake. Thats a log floating with just one end barely sticking up. It was about 5 inch diameter and 10 feet long. Real boat or engine killer. The wakes also break these thing free from whereever they had been.

After a few minutes of re-tying my boat to stop the "bumps", I found myself standing on the source of the bumping: it was a "deadhead" bumping the underside of my dock!

Edit: Oh yeah...forgot to add:

A neighbor had the high water leverage a fiberglass mooring whip out of its aluminum base!

"Fortunately", the 24-foot outboard boat was hanging on the other mooring whip while the transom banged on the rocks. Actually, it wasn't not too badly damaged (didn't sink, anyway), but you've got to wonder about buying a repaired used boat that gets a beating like this one did.

Anyway, I'd make sure that mooring whip fiberglass poles are bonded to the base somehow, and secure the boat with the bow out.

[Mee-n-Mac]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Hi - my aluminum dock is totally underwater too, and what works for me is 32 gal plastic or rubber trash cans filled with water. After the lake level goes down just dump the water back into the lake.

I was scratching my head as to how I was going to weight down the dock when I go up Fri. Thanks for the great idea, it's a lot easier to fill (and remove) trashcans of H2O than to drag around rocks or blocks and probably more effective too. Let's see, if the water was just level with my dock's top, each filled can would add ~267 lbs of weight. Even if it was under by 6", each can would still add ~200 lbs. Thanks for making my day !