Six Pack Summer
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Say it ain't so
Haven't been down to the lake for awhile. Heard the dock was broken again. Anyone know if that is the case and when it happened. If true don't need to
know how, that's obvious.
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Pleasure Island
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I called my boat and the answering machine picked up.... so there is still electric and phone lines... so at least the main dock didn't break again.
We are going to brave the artic weather and go to the boat this weekend... I'll let you know what I find out.
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Pleasure Island
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You heard right Six Pack..... The dock broke loose at the fifth wheel at slip #78. They currently have chains holding it together.
Other news....
(not sure when all this happened, but the following is news or gossip from the marina staff)
The Flyer (slip #1) almost went down. It's currently sitting on a trailer up in the gravel pit.
The Liquir Mart boat (also named Taylor Made) almost sank. A fisherman passing behind the boat noticed that the rear deck was almost under water with
the Sea Doo's floating off their skids. Marina staff sucked the water out.... and found that the person that winterized the motors must have
forgotten to put back in the blue freeze plugs.
The river otters are apparently causing some damage (didn't get any detals)... the night watchman scared the #%@^* out my wife Saturday night... he
was walking inbetween the boats with a flashlight and a rifle. He could have had a BB gun for all she knew... Personally I think its great the
marina finally found a night watchman that actually walks the dock at night.
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Six Pack Summer
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You are a wealth of knowledge. Always good to have the marina held together with "chains". Not sure I would want to be one of the boats past slip 78.
Amazing the boat in slip 1 stayed up as long as it did. It always kind of leaned a little. Would not have wanted to be the one that winterized Liquor
Mart.
A night watchman with a rifle, good protection, hopefully he knows the difference between an otter and dog.
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Give them a break. It's a 3 ton chain fall holding it together. Surely the combined weight of the dock and boats are under that.
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Six Pack Summer
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A break is what is going to happen. Wild Hair will have a new home after the next storm. On the bank across from the marina. Nice and quiet over
there, just no water or electricity, but he is good at "roughing it".
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Pleasure Island
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Another Round... the chain is only as good as what they attached it to...
(You just gotta hope that they also tightened the anchor cables. )
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Pleasure Island
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Correction on the gossip I was passing on above.
I talked to the guy that winterized the Liquir Mart boat. He said he left out the blue plugs on purpose... and always did when he winterized a
boat... though he said he'll never leave them out again
He talked with the builder of the boat and they said some people leave them out and others put them back in... it shouldn't make a difference.
Apparantly the hose allignment in this boat allowed a siphon to start with all the high winds and waves we have been having lately.
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Six Pack Summer
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Why would you leave out the plugs? Why not put the plugs back in and put the intake hose into anitfreeze and fill the block. I just don't see the
advantage of leaving them out especially with the boat in the water. Reviewed the owners manual on my boat and it says nothing about leaving them out,
suggests putting them back in and filling with antifreeze, 350 mercruiser.
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