rsvpasap wrote:Great Lakes Mostly Open Water This Winter
Less Than 10 Percent Of The Great Lakes Covered In Ice
http://www.wpr.org/great-lakes-mostly-open-water-winter
Perhaps I'll just park my boat in the marina parking lot and let nature launch it. 
I read somewhere that the record, at least since records have been kept, which isn't all that far back on the time scale of Lake Ontario, was set 20 years ago, and was about a foot higher than at the time I read it. Since the Lake is still gaining depth, that 1/2 foot is probably consistent with what I read a couple of weeks ago. They don't want to let water out through the St. Lawrence any faster, as they're trying to share the pain but not tilt it too far either way.Mac26S-95 wrote:Lake Ontario is now within 1/2 a foot of the all-time high level.
At least they don't have the Fast Ferry to worry about any more. The wakes from that apparently were doing a job on the shore line.Mac26S-95 wrote:Tomfoolery and I sail out of a bay of Lake Ontario and there is some minor flooding in marinas around the bay. Lakeside homeowners on the south shore are concerned about significant erosion with a strong northerly wind.
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This doesn't bother me much, my dock is a floating dock.
The water was over the top of the launch ramp steel tracks and rounded bollards. The pilings the floating dock rings slide over were looking pretty short. The record was set in 1973. Yes, the politicians were quick to point the finger at Plan 2014, but I agree with you, this current level is simply due to above-average precipitation in the watershed. I'm glad I don't own lake-front property up in the Town of Greece.'m sure you've read or heard folks complaining about Plan 2014 being the cause, but it's just a LOT of rain and snow melt, and it happens every so often. Plan 2014 only increases and decreases the water level by an inch or two, not by feet.
Geez Tom, you got me worried, so I had to go check out my slip. It was weird walking up the ramp to the dock. Some of the slips are in rough shape, and there were a few finger docks where the slip ring was above the piling.I went to the marina the other day, and instead of walking down the hinged ramp to the floating dock, I was walking up the ramp.
I'm guessing those would be pretty wobbly. My slip was in good shape however and I'm hoping to splash this coming week.
In the fall, when the water is much lower, I don't recommend using this ramp because my trailer wheels fall off the end of the concrete ramp into the hole dug by boaters powering their boats onto their trailers. The State ramp on the west side of the inlet (Seabreeze ramp, as Catigale called it) is longer and works well for me with lower water levels.
Geeze - I'm already scared and I'm not even there!Starscream wrote:. Thunder is really a short and loud sound when you're close. Just a bang, not a rumble. Frkn scary.
you guys are brave - I am afraid of the lighting and thunder - it does not come over here much - and the water goes up and down all the time over here - not sure why your water is going up and down in inches over there = over here is goes up 2 feet and then down three, and then up 3 feet and then down again - it does it twice a day! If the water went up only 3 inches that would be sort of cool for anchoring.
I may have to use the State Ramp or yours - "my" ramp may not get steep enough soon enough. 
