I understand. I used to live input real and sail on Lake St. Louis. Had the same problems. No fun.
Rich Knowles Indigo. LF38 Halifax On 2012-10-03, at 17:28, Paul Fountain <[email protected]> wrote: Rich, It's a serious issue on the Great Lakes right now - many clubs and marinas on Lake Ontario are not accessible to boats drawing over 5 1/2 feet some are pulling deeper drafts already. I've had to extend my dock skirt down 2+ feet so I don't go under the dock. On the upper lakes I have friends with cottages on islands that are having to extend docks and take other actions to get to the islands - no fun! Wish we had tides even wind tides right now! Paul. :) On 2012-10-03, at 3:54 PM, Rich Knowles <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't understand all the flap over water levels. Ours goes up and down over > 6' every few hours. Up to 40' on the Bay of Fundy. No sweat. > > Rich Knowles > Indigo - C&C LF38 > Halifax - Nova Scotia > > > On 2012-10-03, at 16:14, Frederick G Street <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We don't see much lake effect snow on Superior, as we're upwind of >> everything... >> >> -- Fred >> >> On Oct 3, 2012, at 2:12 PM, "Neil Andersen" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I have heard that there is a call for a greater than usual volume of Lake >>> effect snowfall this year due to the higher than usual Lake temperature… >>> >>> From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >>> Frederick G Street >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 11:50 AM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Stus-List Great Lakes Water Levels >>> >>> Speaking just for Lake Superior, we're in a drought situation here right >>> now, so inflow is much reduced; but the biggest culprit seems to be the >>> warmer than usual winters, which lead to significantly reduced ice cover, >>> which in turn leads to greatly increased evaporation. >>> >>> Fred Street -- Minneapolis >>> S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( >>> >>> On Oct 3, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Robert Mazza wrote: >>> >>> >>> OK Stu, here's a dumb question: >>> >>> If the water is leaving the Upper Great Lakes faster than normal, why isn't >>> the level of the Lower Great Lakes rising with all that influx of water? We >>> keep our boat in Hamilton, Ontario, and the water level at the fixed docks >>> at the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club is so low now that I have to sit on my >>> butt on the dock with my legs dangling in space before a gingerly lower >>> myself on to the deck of Trillium now several feet below dock level. I >>> can't see how putting baffles in the St. Clair River is going to improve >>> the water level on Lake Ontario. There seems to be something more at work >>> here than water flow through the St. Clair River. It probably has to do >>> more with lack of snow fall and snow build up in the winter with resulting >>> reduced run off in the spring, as well as changes in precipitation >>> generally. Global warming (or Climate Change) perhaps? I don't have an >>> answer, but this does seem to be a problem facing the whole Great Lakes, >>> not just the Upper Lakes. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >>> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >>> [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album >> http://www.cncphotoalbum.com >> [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > [email protected] _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
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