Im slow, but I made it

[wredman]

nother one from SRO, wish the cancellation notice included an invitation also.

Boat is on Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. We just opened it up for the year and ready to spend more time on her again.

 

[Bridog]

Hey welcome back! Better late then never huh?

 

[Sea Ray 300]

nother one from SRO, wish the cancellation notice included an invitation also.

Welcome to our very fine forum, and as you will learn, ther is a wealth of information here, and allot of "old friends".
How's this for a response?:
Old friends don't need an invitation... :wink:

Welcome aboard.... :wink:

 

[wredman]

The invitation was not the important part, I have no proplem crashing a party :smt001 Its the map that I needed

 

[chuck1]

Welcome Aboard or is back Aboard :thumbsup: . Post some pic of your boat in the virtual marina :smt024 .

 

[STIHLBOLTS]

Glad you found us. Welcome aboard. :thumbsup:

 

[Bridog]

Good to see that your a 300DA owner too! I'll have lots of questions for you soon.

 

[Bridog]

Forgot to add that I hope you weren't affected by that freaky snow/ice thing that happened by you.

 

[Bottom Line]

W...glad to see you made it over form SRO. Hope all went well the first year with the new rig. Hopefully now damage from the ice/snow at LOTO this winter.

 

[wredman]

THanks

I made it fine with the ice storm. Our dock dipped a little but not in the region of my slip. There is a group of empty slips and that is where the trouble was starting to crop up. But, no big issues, the roof held. I think the bays with boats help due to the boat lifts. Many of the lifts have locking features that indirectly help provide bouyancy in this abnormal circumstance. I did hear of one scenario where an owner lowered his boat lift to get his boat out from the dock, and the boat lift dropped into the water and then requred the dock to hold it up. This added a bunch of wieght (~1000 lbs), that pulled the dock under.

The big problems were caused by the shifting or initial non-uniform loading on the roof. Causing one side of a dock to go under and then the roof uprights tilted and failed, and like a zipper, the entire roof would collapse. Large cruisers were hit hardest because the larger boats typically do not have lifts, and the slips are wider, so there is less flotation for a unit length of roof, hence these are the more common docks with failures. Many radar arches damaged, bow rails, and even the tops of the bow itself from the wieght of the dock roofs that fell. Taller boats naturally got it worst than their shorter neighbors.

I assume the many photos have been posted here, if not I can dig some up.

 

[RiverRat]

Welcome aboard!!! :grin: Glad to here that you made it through the ice storm! We had much the similar circumstances on the river. There is actually a bit of a shortage of slip space out there now.

 

[First Born]

welcome to CSR!!! :thumbsup:

Wesley