Lake Erie report

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Oct 11, 2016
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Lake St. Clair - Michigan (MacRay Harbor)
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2008 - Formula 400ss
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Volvo Penta D6-350
So who’s going out to Lake Erie this weekend?
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Thankfully my boat is in rack storage! In the fall I've seen the water level drop 4' at the west end of the lake when we have strong westerly's.
 
We were going to take the boat to visit friends at Marblehead. The idea of taking the boat got canned on Thursday after looking at the open waters forecast. As the whole point pf the trip was to go to PIB, we ended up scrapping the whole trip as the ferry might not have even run in those seas. We will try again in early October.
 
Wimps. :)

We are seeing the same on Lake Michigan. Some guy was swept off the jogging path downtown Chicago.
 
Yeah I was supposed to take my 400DB to downtown Chicago tomorrow. Not in 6-8’ waves. I can wait until Tuesday.
 
One of the advantages of boating in West Michigan is the ready availability of boatable lakes that connect to Lake Michigan. When the big lake is rough we boat on little lakes.
 
So who’s going out to Lake Erie this weekend?
I took mine out today, just not on Lake Erie. Lake St. Clair was bad enough. I have my in laws up from Florida and they haven't seen the boat yet so we cruised over to Bumpers had lunch and headed back to the marina.
 
Not just Lake Erie. We pulled our boat today, along with about 25 others at our marina. Supposed to be bad flooding the next few days.
 
It was a good time! Saw several boats headed out of West Harbor and promptly return. I don't know how people just don't know that when we get NE winds the waves are big and close together. If we were on the ocean no big deal to have 6 ft waves. The waves are spread out enough that you hardly notice. Lake Erie has the chop and it's a good time.

here is a video from this past weekend in on Lake Erie

 
8.5 Foot waves with a period of 8 seconds yesterday ENE of Kellys
 

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