Labor Day Wishes

Stripermann2 · Post by **Stripermann2** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 6:59 pm

I hope you all enjoy your time out on the water this weekend. Be safe, be sane and have fun!

I expect pictures on Tuesday, of your antics and good times.

MTP · Post by **MTP** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:00 pm

how did you do with the storm of the century?

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:19 pm

We did ok and sent it your way

Stripermann2 · Post by **Stripermann2** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:29 pm

Yep, it's headed your way!

k9th · Post by **k9th** » Fri Sep 03, 2010 9:19 pm

Looking forward to a good weekend but have gale warnings and 12-15 foot waves. Don't think I will be leaving the dock any time soon and we are not anywhere near the hurricane.

MTP · Post by **MTP** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 7:11 am

all we got was a little rain and the surf is up

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 7:18 am

Glad you did not get much , now it is time to enjoy the weekend

The bad part is removing the 14 lines to get out of the slip

k9th · Post by **k9th** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 8:37 pm

You are up for it Paul - better than raising it off of the bottom for sure.

tsawyer · Post by **tsawyer** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:58 pm

It was a beautiful day off of Ft Lauderdale. Seas were flat calm and it was quite warm, but not as hot as it could have been.

We ran out Hillsboro Inlet out to some mooring balls off the reef. We jumped in a snorkled around for a few hours, had lunch, etc.

We ran a bit farther south and came back north for a nice ride.

Only downside was adding 105 gallons of fuel and I think everyone with a working boat was on the water today. The return trip down the intracoastal and under 3 bridges was very congested.

All in all a great day. May need to do it again tomorrow

rickalan35 · Post by **rickalan35** » Sun Sep 05, 2010 10:28 pm

We had big winds here in Ontario, yesterday and today. Retied the lines and bounced around on the dock overnight. Most of us content to stay home at the marina and visit back and forth till bedtime. Temps were in mid fifties overnight and low sixties during the day. Winds kept up though and one gust blew off one side of the bimini frame on my friends F32. He was absent and so we tied it on as best we could and left him a voice message at home.

aweimer · Post by **aweimer** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 5:25 pm

We had a great weekend. Bad wind Saturday on Lake Erie, 15' waves 3+ miles out. It blew the water out of the marina, down 24" at its worst, still not on the bottom at least. Sunday was much better, by afternoon the water was back and the lake was very nice for a sunset cruise.

We had guests out for the weekend too, i was plesently supprised how the weekend went even with the wind. There was plenty of room for the 4 kids and 4 adults aboard. In the evenings we spent time in the bridge having wine and chatting. Plugged in the portable heater to keep the chill out. It did get down to 50 one night.

All in all, great weekend. Hoped to go out fishing too, but the lake was too stired up for that. Hope everyone else had a good weekend too.

rickalan35 · Post by **rickalan35** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:44 pm

Aaron,

Blew the water out!!! Wow, never heard of that before.

Did that crew sleep over or just stay the evening?

Recently, we took my wife's two aged aunts out overnight (aged 82 and 80) and those two had a wonderful time sleeping in the vee bunks.... they couldn't get over the fact that they were on a boat overnight (they grew up during the depression) with a private entrance to their own washroom too.

I've got to leave the country for 10 days starting tomorrow (not fleeing the police) and so I went up to the marina today, to get the boat's heads pumped out before I left. But it was just too windy to single hand it over to the gas dock with only one teen age girl there to catch me. Usually, I'm pretty cocky with that singlehanded stuff, makes me feel like a man!... but decided to forget that idea today. So.... net result is a boat needing a pump-out is going to sit on the dock for the next 10 days.

leaves will be probably be changing color by the time I get back.

Hope you get some great autumn boating.

Rick

aweimer · Post by **aweimer** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:26 pm

rickalan35 wrote:Aaron,

Blew the water out!!! Wow, never heard of that before.

Did that crew sleep over or just stay the evening?

Yeah in the fall with winds out of the west the marina will drop up to 3 feet of water. The winds blow the water to the other end of the lake. Since lake Erie is long unlike the other great lakes its pretty normal to see that. When the water is out the channel feeding the marina is empty. I will find some pictures to post from last fall. Seen a bar stool on the bottom of the cannal from the local bar on the point, LOL.

Our guests were out with us Friday-Monday, the whole weekend. Our docks are nice with a 14x16 deck right at the slip for us, all drive up docks too. We just hung out with the rest of the A bank crew until Sunday afternoon when we snuck in a quick ride, then it really calmed down for a night cruise. Very fun, first time out at night with her this year. Chart Plotter/GPS and radar all works great.

Haul out is just coming too fast! bah..

prowlersfish · Post by **prowlersfish** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:26 am

When up the bay for 3 days to fishing bay . Great weekend

randyp · Post by **randyp** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:17 am

Just got home last night. Had a great LD weekend visiting and celebrating grandson no. 2's big "0-4". We were in Rochester and Lk Ontario had 7-10 footers, according to the paper. Glad I wasn't out in that. Back at our lake the same weather raised hell with a "back to school" regatta. Couple of hobies ran into each other and got holed. Our club's committee boat (an old pontoon boat) went out to bring them back and almost got swamped in the 5 footers kicking up. All this time we were back in Rochester eating cake. Lah dee dah.