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MattL
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Initially Posted - 01/11/2003 :  01:39:15  Show Profile
A while ago in a thread about the end of the season I mention that the lake I sail on was being drained. A number of people made comments of misunderstanding. Ed Montague explained the situation to you all that the lake was drained during the winter. I cant't remember if he gave the reasons. repaire work and as a site for emergency flood control.
Well I took some photos the other day and thought I'd share.
The first is a view of our docks, they look much safer when the water is there.<img src="http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3df31b3127cce93cd93d873760000001410" border=0><img src="http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3df31b3127cce93cd93c2736c0000001410" border=0> EC Rider is in the second row to the far left. Last year I was dragging bottom on the way out for the last sail.
The next is our club house. <img src="http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3df31b3127cce93cd93cff2510000001410" border=0>It is owned by MID (Merced Irrigation District), they are giving us great rates. When we took over the building it was just after evicting a couple that were running it into the ground. It was a mess. Fortunatly some of our members are contractors and know how to get us regular folks working. The club did almost all of the work on a volunteer basis. Same thing with dock repair and building of new slips. The county owns the slips, but the club volunteered to take over collecting fees and maintaines of it. We always turned over the money to them but always did the mantiance ourselves, because they never had money allocated to the docks. Good deal for us.

The last couple of shots are of the last sail boat I saw on the lake, begining of December.<img src="http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3df31b3127cce93cd93c873660000001410" border=0><img src="http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b3df31b3127cce93cd93c9f2570000001410" border=0>
Thats it. Winter photos are kind of fun too, and it's always a joy to do anything with boats. If anyone else has some sailing or not quite sailing photos share them too

Matt/Brigitte Loeffler
E.C. Rider
Cat 25 86'
FK/SR _/)
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 01/13/2003 :  20:49:14  Show Profile
Geez, if my marina was ever drained like that, I can't even imagine how many tools, keys, hardware, pagers, more tools, phones, boat parts,...etc that you would find beneath the slips.

Don Lucier, 'North Star'
C25 SR/FK
Cradled on the hard, 200ft from Lake Erie
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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 01/13/2003 :  20:56:11  Show Profile
And I thought I was the only one whose fingers refuse to work!

Our lake is also drained at the end of the season because the lake is used for flood control in the spring. the regulating district drops the lake in winter so that the snow melt, we really will have snow melt this year, has a place to go. Our club brings our docks into shore and as the lake drops they go on the hard.

That is one of the work parties of the club.


Don Peet
c25, 1665, osmepneo, sr/wk
The Great Sacandaga Lake, NY
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