Lost Swim Rafts

Mee-n-Mac · 04-20-2007, 03:40 PM

Is it just me or is there some "rotund" white guy lying down under the slide ?

I think there is and he's just out for a little pre-season rafting tour of the lake. Where did this raft come from ? Not the Alton area ... so that leaves .... well ... a few guys off the hook.

SteveA · 04-20-2007, 03:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mee-n-Mac

Is it just me or is there some "rotund" white guy lying down under the slide ?

I think there is and he's just out for a little pre-season rafting tour of the lake. Where did this raft come from ? Not the Alton area ... so that leaves .... well ... a few guys off the hook.

I'm hoping it blows all the way to LSP... as opposed to the Weirs.. where we all know who will be investigating!

(Supplies for Bike Weekend)

camp guy · 04-20-2007, 05:11 PM

I have been asked to post the sighting of an apparently free-drifting aluminum pontoon-type raft in Winter Harbor about 500yds off the Carry Beach shore line. Sorry, no further information.

offmycloud · 04-20-2007, 05:23 PM

Someone should go tow that thing to shore before the night. It will be a hazard once it gets dark. I would but I'm not around.

ApS · 04-21-2007, 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by offmycloud

"...It will be a hazard once it gets dark. I would but I'm not around..."

I'm around, but a big ice floe has locked against my shore since Wednesday.

Maybe by this afternoon the ice can be moved away, and I can secure the raft. (Which is still in view at dawn today). Hopefully, it won't be out of sight by then.

offmycloud · 04-21-2007, 12:47 PM

Thanks! - I don't mean to order fellow forum members around. It just would be awful if someone hit it at night. Looks like a gorgeous day up there! Wish I was out in the boat!

islandAl · 04-22-2007, 06:10 PM

If anyone is going more than headway speed at night while there is so much floating debris, they are asking for trouble.
I picked up several tree limbs and one 6 by 6 that was 3 feet long. Any boat that hit that at speed would have had major hole.

Finder · 04-23-2007, 07:51 AM

Found. 24 to 30 dock. Presently on the South side of South Cow on the sandy beach near Loon Island.

CanisLupusArctos · 04-23-2007, 01:46 PM

After telling someone about it I was told that one of the owners on Black Cat has a raft like that, the Lindsays, whom I believe are full time MA residents but I haven't seen any cars in their driveway for weeks. The night before the first posting on this thread I did see the raft floating near the SE side of Black Cat Island, and thought someone had set it out there for the summer. Conditions were calm and it didn't seem to be moving, but in the morning it was gone.

ApS · 04-23-2007, 05:11 AM

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Originally Posted by offmycloud

Thanks! - I don't mean to order fellow forum members around.

Your orders have been obeyed

, and the raft secured.

It is an Aqua-Float model. No address on it.

There is a large quantity of white-pine cones and needles on it that are unlikely to have landed on it while it was loose. There is no other leaf debris, so it must have been stored near some mature white pine trees. Hope this helps to find the owner.

This is the model:

I think it arrived from the Libby Museum area—maybe floating away from someone's new "perch beach" with the rising waters from snowmelt and rain.

Weirs guy · 05-03-2007, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveA

I'm hoping it blows all the way to LSP... as opposed to the Weirs.. where we all know who will be investigating!

(Supplies for Bike Weekend)

How many beers fit across on that slide at one time?

04-20-2007, 03:40 PM	#1
Mee-n-Mac Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,943 Thanks: 23 Thanked 111 Times in 51 Posts	Ahoy there Is it just me or is there some "rotund" white guy lying down under the slide ? I think there is and he's just out for a little pre-season rafting tour of the lake. Where did this raft come from ? Not the Alton area ... so that leaves .... well ... a few guys off the hook. __________________ Mee'n'Mac "Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by simple stupidity or ignorance. The latter are a lot more common than the former." - RAH

04-20-2007, 05:11 PM	#3
camp guy Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: formerly Winter Harbor, still Wolfeboro Posts: 1,224 Thanks: 317 Thanked 560 Times in 310 Posts	Swim raft ??? I have been asked to post the sighting of an apparently free-drifting aluminum pontoon-type raft in Winter Harbor about 500yds off the Carry Beach shore line. Sorry, no further information.

04-20-2007, 05:23 PM	#4
offmycloud Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Chicago IL and Moultonborough Posts: 165 Thanks: 3 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	Danger! Someone should go tow that thing to shore before the night. It will be a hazard once it gets dark. I would but I'm not around.

04-22-2007, 06:10 PM	#7
islandAl Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Mountonboro Posts: 200 Thanks: 12 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	floating objects If anyone is going more than headway speed at night while there is so much floating debris, they are asking for trouble. I picked up several tree limbs and one 6 by 6 that was 3 feet long. Any boat that hit that at speed would have had major hole.

04-23-2007, 07:51 AM	#8
Finder Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 27 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	Also found Found. 24 to 30 dock. Presently on the South side of South Cow on the sandy beach near Loon Island.

04-21-2007, 12:47 PM	#6
offmycloud Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Chicago IL and Moultonborough Posts: 165 Thanks: 3 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	Thanks! - I don't mean to order fellow forum members around. It just would be awful if someone hit it at night. Looks like a gorgeous day up there! Wish I was out in the boat!

04-23-2007, 01:46 PM	#9
CanisLupusArctos Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Center Harbor Posts: 1,049 Thanks: 15 Thanked 472 Times in 107 Posts	owners? After telling someone about it I was told that one of the owners on Black Cat has a raft like that, the Lindsays, whom I believe are full time MA residents but I haven't seen any cars in their driveway for weeks. The night before the first posting on this thread I did see the raft floating near the SE side of Black Cat Island, and thought someone had set it out there for the summer. Conditions were calm and it didn't seem to be moving, but in the morning it was gone.

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