14 days on the lake and only took two boat pictures .

[wyrman]

Have you had any mussels on your boat?
I want to take mine there someday, but with the threat of a 30 day quarantine it's not worth it living so far away.
Do you gets yours decontaminated?

 

[jobofly]

The trip was to be 20 days however I had to cut it short.

We literally didnt go on land for ten of the 14 days.

To your question:
1> Count my blessings... over and over. We are blessed to have the lifes we all have!
2> Enjoy the time with my girlfriend and our kids. Out of the 14 days the kids where only there for 4 days.
3> See above... if no kids for 10 days.... well you get the point.
4>We traveled 3/4 of the lake ... about 800 miles of shore line. We had our 14 ft boat in tow so once we found a spot every couple of days to be on the hook we used that to explore.
5>Drink, eat, enjoy the company of other boaters we know and even made a couple new ones along the way.
6> went 10 days without even looking at my phone- email- text messages.
7> Being on the boat, cleaning it, organizing it, doing diffrent maintenance, providing a great time for family/ friends is just good old therapy for me!

Going to do 30 day on it mid September to October.

Man that sounds amazing! Thanks for sharing

 

[Joint Custody]

Have you had any mussels on your boat?
I want to take mine there someday, but with the threat of a 30 day quarantine it's not worth it living so far away.
Do you gets yours decontaminated?

Our boat has been on the lake it’s whole life.

We purchased it in the summer of 2017. For our lake test we pulled the boat for a out of water inspection and it hadn’t been out of the water for five years. At that time it only had about a dozen mussels on the bottom and that was mainly on the trim tabs.
We then pulled the boat in October of that year and had zero mussels.
From October 17 to June of this year it has been in the water. I had a diver ... dive last month to look at the bottom stern to bow. He only found one muscle and that was in the speedometer pickup.

Before the dive I inspected all the areas we could see without diving. From lay up last December to March I found on the trim tabs and the swim deck lift about thirty mussels.

When doing the winter lay up in December cleaning all the strainers I found zero mussels in them.

We also keep a wave runner and our 14 ft boat in the water from May to October. When I pulled them last October for winter lay up we had zero mussels on either of them. They along with our 460 are all bottom painted. They don’t stick to bottom paint that I have seeing.

The mussels are most definitely the STD of the lake. The boat owners that are using their boats and pulling every two years won’t have a issue. It is the ones that don’t pull there boats that will.
There is a house boat on our port side it hasn’t been out of the water in nine years.

As for your question. It is a crap shoot on if you would get any on your boat or in your systems ... let’s say on a ten day trip.

I would inspect the boat yourself before getting it decontaminated. Any non bottom painted areas, check the sea strainer, anchor locker.. any part of the boat that went in the water. That is what they will ask you when you pull into the decon station. As for the quarantine if you did get the (30 days) they still let you take the boat home. Your paper work would just show that you had mussels on the boat.
It is on the other end your home port that will keep you out of the water... that is if they inspect you.

It is kinda like hitting the dispensaries in Washington state. I can buy a good had full of what ever I want. When I got to the airport I asked TSA about taking it on the plane ... they said... and I don’t know this to be true... however they said they didn’t care... they said it was up to the state that I was flying to if they wanted to make a big deal out of it.

My point is. Lake Powell will do the inspection. They will tag your trailer that you where inspected on a certain date and give you a paper slip that corresponds with the trailer tag and if you had mussels or didn’t.

It is up to you and your home ports end and yourself if mussels are found to keep your boat out of the water for 30days.

I would say bring it to Powell... plan yourself a full seven days on the lake and enjoy the hell out of it.

When you do plan your trip let me know. Would love to show you some of the great spots on the lake.

Jim

 

[wyrman]

That's some great info, thank you.
I have taken my 18' bowrider down there twice now, the latest was about three weeks ago, and didn't have any issues.
I just wouldn't want to have to leave the big boat down there quarantined.
I would definitely follow all the rules, even if that meant having to sit out a month once I got back here. Whatever it takes to keep our waters mussel free.
I will get with you when the time comes to bring the 310 down.

 

[JustRight]

Wow. Amazing pics