Lake level NO wake Please

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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.