Excellent resource for Great Lakes sailors
 

Many thanks to my friend Matt Colie for this excellent resource for Great
Lakes sailors, especially this time of year.
http://www.glakesonline.nos.noaa.gov/geographic.html
You can figure out if your keel is sitting on the bottom BEFORE you go down
to your boat !
John Cairns

Erie still hasn't come up to where it's supposed to be? Lake Michigan has
filled nicely with all the rain we've had this past year or so...
"John Cairns" wrote in message
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Many thanks to my friend Matt Colie for this excellent resource for Great
Lakes sailors, especially this time of year.
http://www.glakesonline.nos.noaa.gov/geographic.html
You can figure out if your keel is sitting on the bottom BEFORE you go
down to your boat !
John Cairns

"katysails" wrote in message
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Erie still hasn't come up to where it's supposed to be? Lake Michigan has
filled nicely with all the rain we've had this past year or so...
"John Cairns" wrote in message
m...
Many thanks to my friend Matt Colie for this excellent resource for Great
Lakes sailors, especially this time of year.
http://www.glakesonline.nos.noaa.gov/geographic.html
You can figure out if your keel is sitting on the bottom BEFORE you go
down to your boat !
John Cairns

As recently as 3 years ago my keel was sitting on the bottom just after
Labor Day, so I would say they're definitely up this year. I was just
sitting on the bottom, I could pivot the boat on the keel by shifting the
diesel from forward to reverse.
John Cairns

"katysails" wrote in message

Erie still hasn't come up to where it's supposed to be? Lake Michigan has

But it's lost almost a foot since the end of July. We're still down almost
3' from where we began before the big drop.

Max

Yeah, but that was an abnormal high....Mr Sail's remembers when there was a
great stretch of beach out to the water when his parents owned the property
at Holiday Beach just south of Pen****er....said for most of his boyhood,
there was lots of sand...whole thing's cyclical...what comes up must go down
and vicey versy....
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"katysails" wrote in message

Erie still hasn't come up to where it's supposed to be? Lake Michigan
has

But it's lost almost a foot since the end of July. We're still down
almost
3' from where we began before the big drop.

Max

"katysails" wrote in message

Yeah, but that was an abnormal high....Mr Sail's remembers when there was
a
great stretch of beach out to the water when his parents owned the
property
at Holiday Beach just south of Pen****er....said for most of his boyhood,
there was lots of sand...whole thing's cyclical...what comes up must go
down
and vicey versy....

Mr. Sail's recollections are spot on. My grandfather used to tell me of the
huge expanse of beach in front of his home near St. Joseph. If Army Corps
of Engineers' records are to be believed, we are fairly close to the median
(not the mean, however) water levels over the past century as we speak. I
also recall reading some early 20th century shipping log condensations
reporting extensive shoals throughout the shipping lanes on the Great Lakes.
Guess we've gotten spoiled by deeper water.

Max