WD Daily Chat - Talk about anything You Like

ssorllih · Post by **ssorllih** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 20:45

We are 10 miles from the river and 465 feet above. Our lights have not even flickered. The condos are built on steel pilings about 12 feet above normal high tide. In the pictures the river is about 6 feet above normal high tide. Someone asked about the boat with that much water. I told them it doesn't matter how much water is under it as long as it doesn't decide to leave home.

Chuckwagon · Post by **Chuckwagon** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 21:22

So all that water softening the ground actually moved the sidewalk too eh? Is the seawall on private property or state property? How do you anchor down the Bietzpadlin' during a storm like that?

ssorllih · Post by **ssorllih** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 22:55

All of what you see in the pictures is private property. All of the boats are tied at the bow to en piling driven into the bottom15 to twenty feet. The stern is tied to a floating dock that is anchored with steel pipes 10 inches in diameter and driven deep into the bottom. Bietzpadlin is the boat farthest out in this line.

Ther is slack in both of her bow lines.

uwanna61 · Post by **uwanna61** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 02:10

A friend gave me this danged recipe;

Ross
Care to share who the friend is? He`s not from Utah is he

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 02:26

I don't own a boat, but was wondering how you allow for the rise in the water level in the boat's bow and stern lines.
Now I understand, just leave enough slack, and your valued boat will be ok. As long as the floating dock has enough means to rise as well with the stern lines? When the water rises more than expected, one would have to get out there and give more slack? Or do the bow lines have a way to rise up along the 10 inch pipe?

Then when I estimate by the last photo it looks like the water is receeding.

uwanna61 · Post by **uwanna61** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 02:44

Bubba
Yeah one evening I put a little slack in the line on my kayak, next morning got up and the kayak was clear across the other side of the lake

Chuckwagon · Post by **Chuckwagon** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 02:59

Too much work! I just whistle fer' ol' patch and she'll come a' runnin'. A kayak just lies there... dead in the water - on the OTHER side of the lake!

na-na na-na naaaa- naa!

ssorllih · Post by **ssorllih** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 02:59

I try to tie the boat up at high tide with as much slack as I can leave without the boat hitting the piling left and right. That allows about six feet up or down from high tide.

This pix shows the slack in the lines and the attachment point on the far piling . This was pretty close to high tide.

Chuckwagon · Post by **Chuckwagon** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 03:36

Yup, and this one's written for Uwanna in Vermona!

No Less - No More
by Chuckwagon

Now, here lies the body of poor Lester Moore,
He made his own bacon and guessed at the cure;
He didn`t like rules; said caution made fools,
So, instructions he chose to ignore.

Mathematics just gave the man fits,
And fractions scared him out of his wits;
He confused `trite with `trate, in all that he ate,
`cause spelling in school was the... pits.

An ounce looked so good, he used more;
And a teaspoon? It soon became four;
An` if it ended in `trate, he just threw in eight,
As for `trite... he just tossed in a lot more!

Ol` Les just didn`t use sense;
Just tryin` to save half a pence,
Botulinum`s a threat, And he soon would regret,
Not using nitrates as defense.

The man loathed advice, don`t you see?
And rules were for fools just like me;
Now we`ll never know why, `Ol Les didn`t die,
Of self-imposed idiocy.

Les never scrubbed nails or washed fingers;
And the scent of spoiled sausage still lingers,
Now he`s ringin` Hell`s bells, and his sausage still smells,
As Les has become a dead ringer!

At first, Lester's neck was just sore,
But then Les could swallow no more;
Then cardiac arrest, laid the poor man to rest,
Strict measures he`d just chosen to ignore.

Yes, here lies the body of poor Lester Moore,
He made his own bacon and guessed at the cure;
Two teaspoons per ten pounds, no less and no more,
For ten pounds, two teaspoons, no Les - no Moore!

Best Wishes,
Chuckwagon

ssorllih · Post by **ssorllih** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 04:29

Well done. That ought to cure him.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 19:30

Glad your boat is ok, and sorry I meant to say before, you have a beautiful boat Ross!

I'm wondering about a photo of 'ol Patch and one of the Kayak.....

uwanna61 · Post by **uwanna61** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 02:56

Hey! What did I do

Well at least I didn`t stuff seasoned saw dust in a tub sock

ssorllih · Post by **ssorllih** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 01:00

This is what the marina and the boat looked like this morning.

The river is almost back to normal.
Our Boat. Just as it should be.

We have large creatures here that walk in mud.

The dimples in the mud are from rain drops. Foot track of a Great Blue Heron.
Access to the boat is possible.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 02:00

Wow, the floods left a mess behind. But looks like your boat is in good shape!

It's interesting to see the force and power of water, looking at the first photo of your above posting, it took a large part of the marina walk down into the water.

ssorllih · Post by **ssorllih** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 02:14

The seawall and walkway collapsed during Hurricane Irene. The dock broke during the flood.