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oldsalt
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Initially Posted - 06/14/2004 :  22:09:40  Show Profile
for dredging the entrance last winter to Great Kills Harbor in Staten Island NY. This is my 20th season sailing out of Great Kills and I ran aground Saturday in totally familiar waters right in mid channel. Even the power boaters are running aground one after another, and in my case, one second I was reading 18 feet and the next thump thump thump. Luckily I was alert, sheeted in and spun around on the keel and with the help of my 9.9 hp outboard, which was already running in neutral due to the narrowness of the channel, got right off the way I got on.

Apparantly they moved the existing bar or "installed" a new one, but the buoys are in the same place as always. Thanks, Corp of Engineers.
Mark;thread-killer extraordinaire, Silver Girl, '83, tall rig/Mk. V, lead fin keel #3744
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Response Posted - 06/14/2004 :  22:57:26  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
We regret to inform you that the $$ originally budgeted for dredging your cruising ground, and many others, has been used in more pressing government activities. (Statement of fact, not a value judgement, and certainly not an invitation to start an of topic discussion .....)

Oscar, In Las Vegas....again.
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Response Posted - 06/14/2004 :  23:18:26  Show Profile
They certainly had already spent the money since they were dredging like the dickens all last winter, even though there was absolutely no reason to do so or any problem to be corrected before they did all that work. I agree that they could have better used the funds elsewhere. $20,000 hammer anyone?
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