Yeah, 2-3' wouldn't have alarmed me to the point of writing a message, since I've heard of the tendency of water to move around like that. It was the change of 9' in such a short period of time that had me wondering just how strong a wind I had to lookforward to tonight, and how doomed my winter frame and shrinkwrap were looking.
As it stands, the strong winds have put enough strain on my shrink to have popped 2 of my belly bands (and adjacent ones at that)so my cover's gotten a little loose and noisy in their neighbourhood, and it's more prone to placing large unbalanced loads on my frame. I'm expecting that before this blows over, the frame will probably have broken a joint or two, and the broken joints will have put some tears in the shrink. None of that seems anywhere near as onerous to fix as the belly bands, so... Cheers, Kris On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 07:40:06PM -0800, Lew Hodgett wrote: > "Kris Coward" wrote: > > > A friend of mine just pointed me at a bunch of NOAA depth charts > > suggesting that about 9' of depth from Western Lake Erie has decided > > to > > relocate itself in the environs of Eastern Lake Erie. > <snip> > > The western 1/3 of L Erie has an average depth of about 30 ft. > > If you are an ore boat drafting 25 ft, that can be a problem which is > why they stay in the Pelee channel on the north side of Pelee Island or > the dredged channel into Toledo. > > Couple of days of SW wind can push 2-3 ft of water from Toledo to > Buffalo which then flows back to Toledo when the wind dies. > > It's the Great Lakes version of tides<grin>. > > None of the above affects a recreational sailboat's ability to enjoy the > lake, at least it didn't mine other than to avoid the shoals around > Pelee island. > > Lew > > > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html -- Kris Coward http://unripe.melon.org/ GPG Fingerprint: 2BF3 957D 310A FEEC 4733 830E 21A4 05C7 1FEB 12B3 _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
