Grand Isle Marina...it's going to be an interesting year

Phasma said:
Governor Whitmor will probably want to add a $.45/gal gas tax on marine gas and fuel to help pay for a levy system


NorCal those crawdads look amazing! I used to eat those by the pound in Nawlins...makes my mouth water. Gotta suck the juice out of them. Maybe I can get you to ship me 20 pounds on ice...
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Sure, let me know. This is a good year for the little suckers. Many are large.
 
Creekwood said:
OMG. Georgian Bay is on the same water level as Michigan/Huron. I may head up to the cottage this weekend and will drop by the marina. I expect it will not be a pretty sight. I'll post some pictures.
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So here is a picture of the fuel dock at our marina. The marina owner was there and he said that last week it was up a foot higher and most of the parking lot was flooded. The day this was taken was a negative seiche effect day (wind driven "tide" effect common on the Great Lakes) and the water had receded a lot in the past two days. That is not bad at all but normally the water rises over 1ft from May to June so will spill over. Marina owner said that the power stations are high enough he is not worried about no power.

As for opening, today is the first day they are allowed to have employees working so the spring prep work starts. Public cannot go on site yet so no one can do any of their own prep. Yard is full of boats still in shrinkwrap. Marina is worried about requests by owners to launch boats when the owner cannot be on site to ensure all is well. The marina does not want to take liability for marina full of boats and the risk of some sinking because of some issue they have nothing to do with. So once the Province opens marina's to the public its going to be a mad scramble for everyone wanting to be in the water at once, but there will be social distancing protocols of some kind.

I used my 20 years at the marina as leverage for going in and taking a few pictures. You can see the floating docks (fuel and slips in the background). Touch wood, we should be good once we can get the boats in.

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Grand Isle yesterday afternoon:

It looks like the line snubbers I picked up might just pay off this year. I may need a couple more...

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I am thinking snubbers are a good idea. I will pick them up this week. Thanks
 
Its suppose to be more or less dry through the weekend. Hopefully this will drop quick
 
So I was up at our cottage this past weekend. The beach erosion is a bit worse since winter as the water levels rise. I think we have lost about 80 feet of lot that the lake has reclaimed since the low water years. Its all sand where we are so the waves take it away quickly. A few of our neighbors are getting together to get quotes for a boulder break-wall to protect what is left of the dunes between the homes and the beach. The cottages are far enough back that I am not worried about the building, just the beach. The quotes are about $40,000 per cottage. My direct neighbor wants to do it and is encouraging me to do do it. I am not going to do it.

We have been there 20 years and have seen the water high and then very very low, and now high. 4 years ago the scientific models were saying the climate change and global warming would dry out the lakes and lake levels were never going to be the same level again. Now the song sheet has changed again. I think the cycle will continue and the lakes will drop again over the next two years. I may temporarily lose some beach, but it will come back. And I can use the $40K for something that won't be an eyesore when the water levels recede.
 
I am thinking in 4 or 5 years you are going to have one hell of a big beach. When the water levels cycle back to low again all of the sand that was erroded will be beach.
 
That is a crazy picture of Grand Isle! Glad I'm on a floating dock!!
 
Phasma said:
I am thinking in 4 or 5 years you are going to have one hell of a big beach. When the water levels cycle back to low again all of the sand that was erroded will be beach.
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That is what I am counting on. As the water levels dropped for the first 10 years we owned the place, that is exactly what happened. The term that the county uses for our area is "dynamic shoreline". Its been pretty dynamic. Every year a different shoreline.
 
I took this picture on Thursday before the holiday weekend started. I like the picture but the water only went up from here, not starting to drop until Monday. The parking lot is in bad shape....really bad shape.

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The trucks float!! If you know Sturgeon Bay at all, the water was up over Centerpointe Yacht Services' wall Sunday.
 
Water level has dropped about 4 inches. Maybe a little relief in flooding is in sight. Grand Isle has an unbelievable mess on its hands. The parking lots and drive are nothing but pot holes. They have dykes in place with pumps keeping the water at bay. There is erosion, blocked drains, storage buildings damaged. They did finally get the diesel pumps repaired. Over the weekend the lawns had grown so deep that the grass had gone to seed. I am not sure how they are going to justify continuing to charge the prices they are charging.
 
I watch people trying to dock on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, sitting in my chair with binoculars from Holiday Isle. It was not pretty, for sure. Most gave up. It looked like pilings were lower than rub rails. It was brutal, hope nobody took any damage!
 
Well we made it through 2020! As I cleaned up our dock box yesterday the water is now below the bottom of the docks. Down maybe 20" from the pictures posted from May in this thread. Much of the movement has been in the last month or so it seems. A crazy amount of water.

Here's the hoping next spring is a little less soggy than this one...

I hope you all had a great 2020.
 
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