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Slip Contracts
by Dave Shearer 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

GSL Slip Renters. There are several of you who have not yet got your 2011 slip contracts and dry storage contracts in yet. Just a friendly reminder that I NEED those contracts in. I will have to make slips available as of February 1st. Thanks Dave Dave Shearer Harbormaster Great Salt Lake State Marina 801-209-9142

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Polar Bear Cup and Clam Chowder Feast
by Dave Shearer 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

GSL Slip Renters and Marina Users. The Polar Bear Cup is just around the corner. This race is hosted by the yacht club. The Harbormaster (that would be me) will be hosting a clam chowder feast just after the race over at my deck and fire pit. All are welcome. I will have clam chowder and bread bowls. Other sides or dishes are welcome. I will also provide the fire and fire pit. Dave Dave Shearer Harbormaster Great Salt Lake State Marina 801-209-9142

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GSL Gate Code and Slip Contract Renewal
by Dave Shearer 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

GSL Slip Renters. Today we changed the code to the front gate. We also sent an email earlier with the new code. If you did not get an email with the new code, we have either not received your 2011 slip contract, or we have a bad email address for you. If you have not sent your contracts in NOW is the time to do that. Remember, we forgot to send out the autopay forms for automatic credit card payments. That form can be found at www.gslmarina.com Dave Shearer Harbormaster Great Salt Lake State Marina 801-209-9142

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Autopay Credit Card Forms
by Dave Shearer 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

GSL Slip Renters. I have noticed that many of you, who in the past have paid by automatic credit card, have not sent an autopay form in with your contracts. Others have asked us to continue to use autopay but have not sent in a form. If you want us to charge your card for slip rentals, we MUST have a current form each year. All the forms from last year HAVE expired. If you plan on sending a check in or pay in person you can disregard this email. If you did not send a new autopay form in with your contract but want us to charge your card each month then please click on the following form, fill it out and send it in asap. http://www.gslmarina.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=ay1vUvyn2e0%3d <http://www.gslmarina.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=ay1vUvyn2e0%3d&tabid=117 &mid=512> &tabid=117&mid=512 For those that have sent your contract in, thank you. For those that have not, please do so ASAP. Your contracts are expired and you risk losing your slip. Dave Shearer Harbormaster Great Salt Lake State Marina 801-209-9142

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Windy Season / Fire hazards
by Dave Shearer 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

GSL Slip Renters and Marina Users, Just a friendly reminder and warning. January through May are typically the windiest months of the year for the Great Salt Lake area. January and February have also recorded the strongest wind gusts of each year. It is common to see winds in excess of 100mph through these two months. Our record gust of 214mph was during January 2005. If you haven't visited your boat lately I recommend it. Check your dock lines, replace them if they are more than four years old or if they are chafed. Much of the damage to a dock line cannot be detected by looking at it. Salt crystals develop INSIDE a dock line and slowly chafe the interior as the line expands and contracts. Check your rigging. Check your boat covers, Check your sail covers (NEIL JONES - YOUR MAINSAIL IS COMING OUT OF THE COVER). Check your mooring cleats (many of the older nylon cleats will break). Check for loose objects that may become dangerous trajectories. In general, prepare your boat and the surrounding area for the windy season. For those who are on slips with power and have power cords. This is also the time to check your power cords and plug receptacles. DO NOT ASSUME YOUR POWER CORD IS SAFE AND YOUR RECEPTACLE IS GOOD. With the heat of summer and the extreme cold temperatures of winter, your plug receptacles can become an extreme fire hazard. The screws inside your receptacles that attach the internal wiring to the receptacles WILL back out during the season due to hot and cold temperatures. After time this will cause the electricity to arc and then heat up causing an extremely serious situation. Do not come out and find your boat scorched. The best way to prevent a problem such as a burned boat is to feel your power cord where it plugs into the boat every time you are out here. If it feels warm you have a problem starting. If it feels hot you have a serious problem. You are putting your boat, your neighbors boat, and the whole marina at risk. On average, we have at least two boats a year that have scorching damage to them due to this problem. Thank you Dave Shearer Harbormaster Great Salt Lake State Marina 801-209-9142

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Clam Chowder Feast
by Dave Shearer 05 Jan '11

05 Jan '11

GSL Slip Renters, Join the Harbormaster on his deck on Saturday, January 29th after the finish of the Polar Bear Cup (probably around 1pm) for the Second Annual Trestledock Polar Bear Clam Chowder Feast. The Harbormaster will provide a Crockpot of clam chowder and some bread bowls. Side dishes are welcome. BYOB. Bad weather may cancel this event. I will keep you posted. http://www.kitchenproject.com/history/ClamChowder/images/clamChowderCannonba ll.jpg Dave Shearer Harbormaster Great Salt Lake State Marina 801-209-9142

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Happy New Year
by Dave Shearer 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

Happy New Year GSL Slip Renters and Marina Users. Well, we ended the year right where we started it with regards to lake level. After a very dismal winter last year, we had an incredible wet spring, summer and now winter. And we had a net-neutral year for water level. If I had told you that would be the case last summer, you would have thought I was high as a kite. And the lake continues to rise rapidly. We had a lot of "Lake Effect" snow yesterday. The Great Salt Lake Marina was directly downstream of the wind all day yesterday and we just kept getting snowed on. So there is a fair amount of snow out here. Most of the snow is dry snow though. So it shouldn't be weighing your boats down too much. It is also bitterly cold out here too. Everything is frozen (including a good portion of the water in the marina). Ice flows are developing on the lake from the Goggins and are likely to build through the week. That may make it tough to get onto the lake. It may also put the navigation buoys as risk and dislodge them. On another good note, we are FINALLY seeing the sun again. Here, at the Great Salt Lake Marina, we have only seen the sun three days since the beginning of November. If you come out to the marina be very careful. Even though we have plowed the parking lot and have shoveled the walks, everything is frozen out here. It rained just before getting very cold. So the parking lot, walks, gangways, and docks are all very slick and frozen. Here's to a bountiful water year! Dave Shearer Harbormaster Great Salt Lake State Marina 801-209-9142

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by Dave Shearer 29 Dec '10

29 Dec '10

Gale Force.JPG GALE FORCE WARNING WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THURSDAY... A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THURSDAY. * AFFECTED AREA: THE CACHE VALLEY...THE WASATCH FRONT INCLUDING OGDEN...SALT LAKE CITY AND PROVO AND THE GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT, GREAT SALT LAKE AND MOUNTAINS. * SNOW ACCUMULATIONS: TOTAL ACCUMULATION OF 4 TO 10 INCHES IS EXPECTED ON THE VALLEY FLOORS WITH THE HIGHEST AMOUNTS ALONG THE NORTHERN WASATCH FRONT...SOUTHERN SALT LAKE COUNTY AND ACROSS UTAH COUNTY. TOTAL ACCUMULATION OF 8 TO 14 INCHES ON THE BENCHES IS EXPECTED. TOTAL ACCUMULATION OF 4 TO 8 INCHES IS EXPECTED IN THE GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT AND MOUNTAINS. * TIMING: SNOW...MIXED WITH OR CHANGING OVER TO RAIN ALONG THE VALLEY FLOORS...WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS MORNING. THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING AS THE COLD FRONT CROSSES THE AREA. PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO THE DAY THURSDAY BEFORE TAPERING OFF. * SNOW LEVELS: SNOW LEVELS MAY RISE ABOVE THE VALLEY FLOORS TO AROUND 5000 FEET THIS MORNING...BEFORE QUICKLY FALLING BACK TO THE VALLEY FLOORS THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS: SOUTH WINDS GUSTING AS HIGH AS 50 MPH WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS. WINDS WILL ALSO BE GUSTY FROM THE NORTHWEST BEHIND THE COLD FRONT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS: PASSES ALONG I-80 WILL LIKELY REMAIN SNOWPACKED THROUGH TONIGHT...AND TRAVELERS ALONG I-80 SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR WINTER DRIVING CONDITIONS. SNOWFALL THIS MORNING WILL LIKELY IMPACT THE MORNING COMMUTE ALONG THE BENCHES. THE HEAVIEST SNOW WILL LIKELY OCCUR IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS EVENINGS COMMUTE. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ESPECIALLY SLICK CONDITIONS AS EARLIER SNOW MAY CAUSE ICY CONDITIONS ON THE ROADWAYS. THIS ICE WILL BE COVERED WITH ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL DURING THE COMMUTE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS A MIXTURE OF HEAVY SNOW AND STRONG WINDS IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. DRIVING CONDITIONS MAY BE HAZARDOUS. USE CAUTION. BE PREPARED FOR SUDDEN RESTRICTIONS IN VISIBILITY DUE TO BLOWING SNOW. KEEP A WINTER STORM SURVIVAL KIT IN YOUR VEHICLE IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY. FOR WINTER ROAD CONDITIONS FROM THE UTAH DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION VISIT...HTTP://WWW.COMMUTERLINK.UTAH.GOV OR DIAL 511. Dave Shearer Harbormaster Great Salt Lake State Marina 801-209-9142

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FREE AT LAST!
by Dave Shearer 27 Dec '10

27 Dec '10

GSL Slip Renters, The Catalina 30's are Free at last! The first one just left the marina. It looked like he had no trouble at the mouth and is now enjoying a day on the water dodging ice flows. It's all about the sunspots Dave Shearer Harbormaster Great Salt Lake State Marina 801-209-9142

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Water Report / Communications
by Dave Shearer 23 Dec '10

23 Dec '10

GSL Slip Renters and Marina Users. Thank God for the Pineapple Express!! What an incredible delivery of moisture! But it has also brought some problems with it. If you all get this email I will be surprised. We have lost all internet for the last several days. And ATT must have lost a cell tower. I am only getting very sporadic signals. This has affected our ability to get timely weather reports out. And good luck getting in touch with us unless you have Marine Band radio or an 800mghrtz radio with the Antelope Peak channel. You may be able to reach me by text since that takes a lot less power than a cell phone call. The office phone is a little more reliable. You can always leave a message. We will return the call when service works. 801-250-1898 This also explains why we are so late with weather forecasts on www.gslmarina.com It literally takes a few hours to get the forecasts out right now. Sorry. I don't know how long this will last. It could be awhile. Now for the Pineapple Express good news: Today: Lake Level is 4194.3 That is a net gain of .7' since the low lake level of 2010 recorded in November. We usually only see a net .2' gain by now. We are now at the same lake level we saw at the end of August. And if you consider that incredible storm surge blowout we saw late November, the mouth of the marina is probably more like the depth we were seeing mid August. Paul Shocker, you may just be able to get out of the marina now. If not, it won't be long. We are now HIGHER than we were at the beginning of this year (January 1st 2010). We are .2' higher. We are where we were at the end of January of this year. What a comeback! Direct Precipitation for December to-date: 287% Direct Precipitation for December (if we do not get any more moisture for the rest of the month): 203% Direct Precipitation for the Water Year (since October 1st) 188% Direct Precipitation since January 1st, 2010: 113% (we were at 61% at the end of March) We have accumulated enough Direct Precipitation that we are now where we would normally be on March 6th, 2011 Snowpack percentage of normal for Bear River drainage: 193% (provides 60% of river water to Great Salt Lake) Snowpack percentage of normal for Weber/Ogden drainage: 173% (provides 20% of river water to Great Salt Lake) Snowpack percentage of normal for Jordan River: 183% (provides 20% of river water to Great Salt Lake) And the accumulated Snowpack percentage of normal for the whole of the Great Salt Lake Drainage: 187% These numbers are a day old. Expect them to go up when NOAA releases their data this afternoon. With these numbers, I am planning on taking my deep draft Capri 30 out and racing the Polar Bear Cup at the end of January. Hope to see a lot of boats on the start line! It's all about the Sunspots! Dave Shearer Harbormaster Great Salt Lake State Marina 801-209-9142

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