Your water-level worries are over ...

codeman671 · 10-17-2005, 07:32 PM

Another wavy day in paradise today! My jet skiis floated off their lifts and decided to make a voyage on their own, one further down Mark and the other over to Bear. A big thanks to Steve from Island Support for dragging them back to our place and securing them while I was on the way up today. Overall not too much damage, just a lot of gelcoat scrapes on the bottoms from hitting on the rocks on shore. A relative of mine over by Trexlers had a similar experience, if you have skiis on lifts still in the water you'd better check them asap!

It certainly was an adventure riding them back across to Glendale today, the few boaters that I passed must have thought I was nuts being our there in the wind and waves. I think that I spent more time in the air than in the water. Probably a good thing, it was quite cold! The wind gave that extra cold sting to wet exposed extremeties.

There was definitely a lot of debris by Mark, the remnants of someones dock panels were washed up against the mail dock. One of the permanent docks on Mink (it might even be Mink Islanders, not sure which is his but he is in that area) was completely under water, the level was 2" below my decking on our crib but all was safe. I think that this year is about over for me, we are shutting down this weekend but will probably leave the boats in for a few more weeks.

10-17-2005, 07:32 PM	#11
codeman671 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 3,496 Thanks: 221 Thanked 812 Times in 488 Posts	Rough wet ride... Another wavy day in paradise today! My jet skiis floated off their lifts and decided to make a voyage on their own, one further down Mark and the other over to Bear. A big thanks to Steve from Island Support for dragging them back to our place and securing them while I was on the way up today. Overall not too much damage, just a lot of gelcoat scrapes on the bottoms from hitting on the rocks on shore. A relative of mine over by Trexlers had a similar experience, if you have skiis on lifts still in the water you'd better check them asap! It certainly was an adventure riding them back across to Glendale today, the few boaters that I passed must have thought I was nuts being our there in the wind and waves. I think that I spent more time in the air than in the water. Probably a good thing, it was quite cold! The wind gave that extra cold sting to wet exposed extremeties. There was definitely a lot of debris by Mark, the remnants of someones dock panels were washed up against the mail dock. One of the permanent docks on Mink (it might even be Mink Islanders, not sure which is his but he is in that area) was completely under water, the level was 2" below my decking on our crib but all was safe. I think that this year is about over for me, we are shutting down this weekend but will probably leave the boats in for a few more weeks.