Port Captain's Report February 2024
Hope everyone got through the Great Ice Storm of '24 without too much damage. A quick walk around the club grounds looks like most of the boats came through fine, no ice-laden branches falling on any boats that we know of. There were a few boats that looked like they could really use some attention, mostly covers coming off and/or water pooling in them, but that happens every year. We've tried to get in touch with the owners of these with limited success, but if you haven't been out to the club lately to check on your boat it's never a bad idea.
Thanks to all who have let us know of their moorage plans for this year, we are at about 75% as of this writing with less than a month to go. To make this a little easier, if you hadn't gotten around to doing that yet we sent out a reminder email on 2/1 showing your existing moorage. So if you want to keep all of your moorage the same all you have to do is reply to the email and skip filling out and submitting a form. We'd be interested to know if people find that useful, and if so we may just send those out to everybody next year as we've automated that process now.
Lastly, a note on using the moorage map. We get quite a few requests asking to be notified of the availability of moorage in an area or of a certain type, i.e “closer in, deeper water, anywhere on 'x' dock or row, more protected, closer to the hoist”, and so on. While we're happy to help you choose the best available moorage for your boat, we have 180+ members in over 300 moorage spaces of one kind or another. We just don't have the horsepower to manage watchlists or alert folks individually when something opens up that might meet their needs. But you can easily do exactly what we would do in cases like this; look at the moorage map. If you see a space that shows a green icon (available) or a white icon (pending) that would work for you, you can submit a request for that space or ask us for more information about it. New moorage vacancies are also posted in the newsletter that comes out on Mondays. If you are looking for new/better moorage, keeping a sharp eye on the moorage map and the weekly newsletters is your best bet for getting what you need.
Fair Winds,
Art Stiers & Murray McLeod
(The Port Captain Committee)