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Originally Posted by SIKSUKR
Me-n-mac's clockwise suggestion made me think of the one real bad area of the lake which is the weirs channel to Eagle Island zone.This can be a real interesting if not frightening ride on some weekends with boats coming from all directions at different speeds.How about sort of a one way through one side of Eagle and the opposite way on the other side of Eagle in the counter-clockwise direction?It would however create some interesting cross traffic for boats coming from Merideth past Eagle,intercepting boats headed towards the weirs from the north side of Governors.Probably not a good idea.How about a giant round-a-bout around Eagle Island.Now that would be cool! SS
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Someone suggested this a couple years ago on this forum (was it you?) and I was thinking of this when I made my suggestion. CC rotation is used on other smaller lakes and is one way of making traffic flow (and would also mitigate my pet peeve). Of course you could just put some buoys down in those few places where traffic is the worst and try to direct flow like you would with traffic cones. This was my first thought but I didn't suggest it because I figured people would object to the extra cost of some more lighted buoys. I do wonder though ... if you do as you suggest above and also had some traffic buoys in the Weirs area .. might it not alleviate the problems there. BR has often suggested a NWZ (of some size ?) for the Weirs and while that might help I'm not sure if there's not a better way. There are sea lanes to help deal with traffic on the ocean, perhaps the concept has merit in some places on Winni too. I think rotaries (on land) do work and make sense on the water where you can't set-up traffic lights. Just for fun if I find some loose time, and a chart, I'll sketch up some positions and expected flow patterns. If anything looks like it has potential I'll post a pic (then we can have some real fun tearing it to shreds
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And just to be controversial let me suggest above removing some of the underwater rock hazards.
Perhaps the last black tipped buoy off Eagle (towards Pitchwood I) could then be removed and the traffic lane widened and the zig-zag removed (though it would be less fun).