Lake Lanier - the end of sailing.....

[Sunroof]

Man, its been crazy watching the lake levels drop every week and seeing my sailboat (Catalina 30) trapped at the dock with hundreds if not thousands of other vessels. I can no longer get over the cables that hold the dock to the large and very exposed concrete ballast blocks. Its our worst drought in recorded history and these once a week rain showers add little to restore Lake Lanier levels. Its our sailing season and its only the nut cases who venture out in the water with a keel that will hit a stump or concrete or rising land! No rescue either!! They say we have only so many months of water remaining and seeing more shoreline show up every week is too much to handle. No one can remove a boat, especially a 30-footer! Ramps are closed, the only two haul out facilities (two of them) are too shallow at the lift points and it would take a monster crane at big $$$$ to do any good at this point.

Twenty feet of lake left under my keel, which gives me several more months, but the drought prediction through 2008 is numbing. It may take years before Lanier fills and Alabama, Florida and Georgia continue to fight over the right to the water.

After six sailboats over a 30 year span of sailing Lake Lanier, Georgia, it SUCKS to see this happen!!!!! SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyone else locked in Lanier?

Bob

[strupgolf]

I'm not locked in Lanier, but I see that you are getting some long needed rain today. Hope this helps.

[Neilk]

Sounds really bad, but you only need one winter like we had this past year in North Texas to refill all the reservoirs.

Lake Grapevine was 20 feet low at the end of last summer, by mid May, it was 18 feet over.

Good Luck!

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Look at the upside, you don't have to worry about flooding anytime soon.

[Mo_Gearhead]

Lose the sails.
Hacksaw off that keel.
Get about three of these (300 HP each).




Problem solved!