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Ben
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Initially Posted - 10/28/2013 :  05:40:41  Show Profile
My wife and I drove up to check on the boat this past Saturday and I walked out on the docks. There were still a decent number of boats in the water. The marina, which is in Sandusky Bay, never has very much water under the keel to begin with (6' to 6' 6" depth), but I noticed almost every sailboat still in the water was resting on her keel.


The wind was from the southwest and it was forecast to be 25-30 mph, with gusts in the 40s. I'm wondering if this happens a lot, and if it happens during the summer. Anyway, I thought it was pretty interesting. I had heard of this phenomena (called a sietch or something), but this is the first I've witnessed it.
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 10/28/2013 :  06:07:12  Show Profile
That marina isn't very deep to begin with. I don't think I ever had more than 6' of water under the hull. But, I also have never seen boats on their keels in there before.

You're right about the seiche. There's a NOAA table that shows the water levels for Lake Erie but, I can't find the link this morning. It's interesting to see the difference between Detroit and Buffalo when the wind is sustained from the west like it was on Saturday.
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 10/28/2013 :  06:38:15  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Ben</i>
<br />My wife and I drove up to check on the boat this past Saturday and I walked out on the docks. There were still a decent number of boats in the water. The marina, which is in Sandusky Bay, never has very much water under the keel to begin with (6' to 6' 6" depth), but I noticed almost every sailboat still in the water was resting on her keel.

The wind was from the southwest and it was forecast to be 25-30 mph, with gusts in the 40s. I'm wondering if this happens a lot, and if it happens during the summer. Anyway, I thought it was pretty interesting.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

It happens on occasion, but mostly in the fall. I just pulled out last week and when I was down at the marina on Saturday, my vacated slip only had ankle deep water in it. Not good with a 4' keel. Here's some pics of past seiches that have hit my marina on western Lake Erie.





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panhead1948
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Response Posted - 10/28/2013 :  13:59:32  Show Profile
Yes it happens every fall. This spring I had 5ft at my dock and when I pulled out Oct 10 I had 6ft of water. This happens every fall when you get extended winds out of the southwest. Last year just before I pulled out I had 4.2 ft. The year before that it sat on the bottom for awhile.
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 10/28/2013 :  14:06:55  Show Profile
That would be a good lake for a twin keel boat like many we saw in England. There they have extreme tides, so the boats just settle on their keels until the tide comes back in.
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