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Reminder: Evaporating Shorelines @ Sat Mar 31 4pm - 5pm(Main Event Calendar)
by Bryant Pratt 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

more details » Evaporating Shorelines Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 4:00 PM Salt Lake City’s Main Library Auditorium (Hosted by Sierra Club) 210 East 400 South Salt Lake City, UT 84111 When Sat Mar 31 4pm – 5pm Mountain Time Where Salt Lake City’s Main Library Auditorium (map) Calendar Main Event Calendar Who • webmaster(a)gslyc.org - organizer Invitation from Google Calendar You are receiving this email at the account gslyc(a)mailman.xmission.com because you set a reminder for this event on the calendar Main Event Calendar. You can change your reminders for specific events in the event details page in https://www.google.com/calendar/. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4906 - Release Date: 03/31/12

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STORM WARNING - Saturday
by Dave Shearer 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

GSL and Antelope Island Slip Renters and Marina Users STORM WARNING FOR SATURDAY We are issuing a Storm Warning for the whole Great Salt Lake for Saturday starting at 11am and lasting through 2am on Sunday. Winds 30mph with gusts over 65mph along with sea conditions will create dangerous conditions on the lake. Although current models show a slight diminishing of the winds for Saturday there is still a chance of gusts approaching Hurricane Force near the Great Salt Lake Marina area. The National Weather Service has issued a High Wind Warning for the Great Salt Lake area Hope you all got your new dock lines on. Dave Shearer Harbor Master Great Salt Lake State Marina Antelope Island State Marina 801-209-9142

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High Wind Warning UPDATE
by Dave Shearer 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

GSL & Antelope Island Slip Renters and Marina Users. Just an update on the wind forecast for Saturday and Sunday. The National Weather Service has just issued a HIGH WIND WATCH. This is normal and is usually issued 48 hours before strong winds are forecasted. By tomorrow the NWS will change that to a HIGH WIND ADVISORY followed by a HIGH WIND WARNING issued sometime late tomorrow night. It's just the way the NWS works. There are two forecast models that are in a bit of a disagreement with each other. Both show very strong winds for Saturday AND Sunday. It is the exact direction that they are in disagreement with. One model shows winds dead from the south. The other shows winds from the southwest. And what does this mean? Why is the direction so important? If the wind is dead from the south and is over 25mph Great Salt Lake Marina is likely to see winds 0 gusting to over 30mph with Tooele Twisters gusting well over 40mph. If the wind is out of the southwest and is over 25mph Great Salt Lake Marina will likely see steady winds over 25mph (much less destructive than due south). The good news is that both models have backed off their top gusts somewhat. So here is what the forecast models are showing at this time. Saturday morning, sometime around 9 or 10am we will start to see winds starting to gust over 30mph. The winds will build as will gusts nearing or exceeding 50mph by 1pm. By 5pm these gusts may start hitting over 60mph. Gusts could get somewhat stronger after the sun goes down. All of this wind peaks in the early morning hours as the front finally passes over the lake. Winds will then switch to the west at 30 to 40mph steady as it clocks to the northwest. Winds will stay strong on the lake all day Sunday and Sunday night 20 to 50mph before diminishing Monday morning. So if the winds are from the south, we could see Tooele Twisters with gusts over 80mph. If the winds are from the southwest we will see winds steady in the 40 to 50mph range. A much preferred choice. There will be a large negative storm surge on Saturday and then very large waves on the lake Saturday. The waves on the beach near GSL marina should be quite impressive Sunday. Dave Shearer Harbor Master Great Salt Lake State Marina Antelope Island State Marina 801-209-9142

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Fw: [GSLYC] Reminder: Evaporating Shorelines @ Thu Mar 29 7pm - 8pm(Main Event Calendar)
by Bryant Pratt 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

more details » Evaporating Shorelines Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 7:00 PM Tracy Aviary (Hosted by Great Salt Lake Audubon) 589 East 1300 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84105 When Thu Mar 29 7pm – 8pm Mountain Time Where Tracy Aviary (map) Calendar Main Event Calendar Who • webmaster(a)gslyc.org - organizer Invitation from Google Calendar You are receiving this email at the account gslyc(a)mailman.xmission.com because you set a reminder for this event on the calendar Main Event Calendar. You can change your reminders for specific events in the event details page in https://www.google.com/calendar/. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4902 - Release Date: 03/29/12

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GSLYC Sailing Semiinar: Sail Trim II
by Bryant Pratt 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

Fellow Sailors, There will be a bonus free Great Salt Lake Yacht Club seminar on Wednesday evening, March 28 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the GSL Marina maintenance building. Tim Adams will continue the Sail Trim seminar that he started last February 15th., but ran out of time. Tim would like to conduct this session by answering your sail trim questions. Please formulate your questions and send them to Ron Lee at ron(a)sailwithseamonkeys.com or to Bry Pratt at brypratt(a)infowest.com (by March 26, please) or have them ready at the seminar. The GSL Marina maintenance building is the new two-story building on the south side of the marina parking lot (where unsecured storage used to be). For those who haven't yet been to the GSL Marina, it can be reached by driving west from Salt Lake City (or east from Tooele) on I-80 and exiting at Exit 104. You can also get there by driving west from S.L.C. on S.R. 201 (21st. S. Freeway) to S.R. 202, then North toward Saltair. Follow the signs to the marina. You needn't pay the entrance fee (unless you're feeling generous). The gate by Saltair will be left open until 7:30 p.m. The gate will open automatically when exiting. Bryant Pratt for Ron Lee GSLYC Seminars Director ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4886 - Release Date: 03/22/12

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HEAVY WIND WARNING SATURDAY
by Dave Shearer 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

GSL/Antelope Slip Renters and Marina Users This spring has been a very frustrating year to try to forecast weather for the Great Salt Lake. The lake has been sitting right smack dab in the middle of the convergence zone between a high pressure system to the east over Colorado and every passing low approaching from the west. It is as if the Great Salt Lake is stuck between the sprockets of two grinding gears spitting everything right through us and then over the top and around. What this means is that every storm or low heads right for us and then gets spit up and around at an accelerated speed so that little moisture is able to dump on us. Yet we get the violent winds associated with this convergence zone. Is the storm going to score a direct hit bringing bountiful moisture and some wind? Or is it going to score a glancing blow yet funnel hurricane force winds right over the top of us? It all depends on which way the gears are going to wobble on any given day. I look at several forecast models each day. It has been the rare occasion where the models agree with each other this spring. Enough of an explanation of trying to forecast wind and weather this year over Great Salt Lake. It is now time for the point of this email. As many of you experienced with sail cloth and pocket books on Monday, spring at Great Salt Lake can be very windy and destructive. 88mph max gusts with 70mph sustained winds shredded six genoas, dismasted one boat, catapulted one dinghy over to the next dock downwind and broke a multitude of dock lines. Well, we are facing an even greater destructive forecast for this Saturday. If the current models hold true (and for once all the models agree so far), we could see EXTREMELY STRONG WINDS developing Saturday. The potential for 80mph to even over 100mph winds is there for Saturday afternoon. Go down to your favorite marine store and buy some fresh dock lines (3/8 minimum ½ preferred). Come out and secure mainsail covers. If you are one of the fortunate who still has a furling genoa rather than some scraps of cloth attached to a foil, I recommend you come out and wrap your genoas with your spinnaker halyard. Lash down your dinghys and anything else that may become a projectile. The towns of Bountiful and Farmington are tired of being bombarded by GSL Marina debris. Welcome to Spring at the Great Salt Lake Dave Shearer Harbor Master Great Salt Lake State Marina Antelope Island State Marina 801-209-9142

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CRANE DAY
by Dave Shearer 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

GSL Slip Renters. Wind forecast for tomorrow is looking very cooperative. Mother Nature must be too tuckered out after today's little breeze to do much tomorrow. Crane Day is ON. Crane will be here 9am sharp. Oh, and for those of you with broken or questionable dock lines, I would get them replaced ASAP. Strong winds are forecasted for Friday. Dave Dave Shearer Harbor Master Great Salt Lake State Marina Antelope Island State Marina 801-209-9142

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Storm Damage Report
by Dave Shearer 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

GSL Slip Renters, We have now walked all the docks and have assessed the damage. Unfortunately there is a fair amount of it. Most of it minor. But some of it major. In order to view the storm damage report you will need to go to www.gslmarina.com then click on the NEWS tab on the top menu. Then on the left side, under URGENT NEWS / REPORTS, you will see Storm Damage Report - current. Click on that to view the full report. I know it is too early for Christmas but I would recommend you start asking Santa for an early stocking stuffer of Dock Lines. For those of you planning on Crane Day tomorrow, it is still on. Dave Shearer Harbor Master Great Salt Lake State Marina Antelope Island State Marina 801-209-9142

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Re: [GSL-Marina] GSLYC Sailing Semiinar: Sail Trim II
by Bryant Pratt 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Reminder . . . There will be a bonus free Great Salt Lake Yacht Club seminar on Wednesday evening, March 28 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the GSL Marina maintenance building. Tim Adams will continue the Sail Trim seminar that he started last February 15th., but ran out of time. Tim would like to conduct this session by answering your sail trim questions. Please formulate your questions and send them to Ron Lee at ron(a)sailwithseamonkeys.com or to Bry Pratt at brypratt(a)infowest.com or have them ready at the seminar. The GSL Marina maintenance building is the new two-story building on the south side of the marina parking lot (where unsecured storage used to be). For those who haven't yet been to the GSL Marina, it can be reached by driving west from Salt Lake City (or east from Tooele) on I-80 and exiting at Exit 104. You can also get there by driving west from S.L.C. on S.R. 201 (21st. S. Freeway) to S.R. 202, then North toward Saltair. Follow the signs to the marina. You needn't pay the entrance fee (unless you're feeling generous). The gate by Saltair will be left open until 7:30 p.m. The gate will open automatically when exiting. Bryant Pratt for Ron Lee GSLYC Seminars Director ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4892 - Release Date: 03/24/12

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Storm Damage - Dingy
by Dave Shearer 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

GSL Slip Renters. Winds have calmed down here finally. They are now only sustained at 40mph. Yawn! We are walking the docks and preparing a complete storm damage report. But we have a mystery on our hands. Does anyone in the south basin (I through L dock) own a white and grey dinghy? If you do, it isn't where you left it. Dave Dave Shearer Harbor Master Great Salt Lake State Marina Antelope Island State Marina 801-209-9142

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