March 2024 - GSL-Marina - mailman.xmission.com

CRANE DAY - UPDATE
by Dave Shearer 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

I am working on finalizing the new CRANE DATE. But I need to conform some information before setting the exact date. Expect sometime mid to later April. Here are the people that I have on the Crane Day List. If your name is on this list and shouldn't be - let me know. If your name is NOT on the list but should be - let me know. This is very important to bringing out the right sized crane and mapping out the placement of the crane. Olsen - Catalina 25 Wardle - Hunter 30 Grillone - Ranger 23 Malmborg - Catalina 25 Wilkinson - Newport 30 Green - Merseth - Capri 25 Bonfiglio - Newport 24 Schoenfeld - O'Day 28 Reich - Catalina 30 Doll - Moore 24 Stradling - Catalina 34 Maedgen - If you have a boat that is in the parking lot but are not planning to crane in, you MAY need to decide what to do with your boat. The parking lot was never intended to be long-term storage. Eventually we will need to reclaim the parking lot as we need to repair it as well as we are just running out of parking stalls during the summer. Please get back to me about the above list ASAP so I can set the final crane day. Lake levels are looking very good this year! Snowpack is over 120% with most of the snow yet to come down. It has nowhere to go but Great Salt Lake this year. Dave

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CRANE DAY POSTPONED
by Dave Shearer 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

I have had many requests to postpone Crane Day. It seems that, with all the wet, cold weather over the last two months, people just aren't ready to go. And the weather next Tuesday looks horrible. So we will postpone Crane Day a couple of weeks. I will talk to the crane company and get a new date scheduled and send the email out either tomorrow or Saturday. Dave

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GSLYC Rebirth
by Dave Shearer 17 Mar '24

17 Mar '24

Below is an email from the Great Salt Lake Yacht Club. They plan to start their programs up again this year and are inviting you to read what some of their plans are. Dave March 16, 2024 Great Salt Lake Yacht Club Members, Another decent winter is encouraging us to get out on the lake and go sailing! Several of us who put boats back in the lake last year are now getting out on the lake. We are anticipating a longer season than last year provided. There is just over 5 feet depth at the shallowest part of the marina mouth, so the majority of boats currently at the marina should be able to get out to the lake by the end of March. As many of you know, Dave Shearer (GSL State Park Marina Harbormaster) is planning on a Crane day March 26th, followed by a Marina wide Opening Day celebration on May 4th. Many thanks to Dave for organizing these two events. I am sure Dave could use some help, please contact him if you are able to assist. It would be great to have a large GSLYC turnout for Opening Day, so let's get those boats out of the parking lot and into the lake! We are anxious to restart the Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, however with the current low membership, we need to be mindful of our expenses. Hopefully, with increasing activity at the marina, membership will rise, and likewise the GSLYC sponsored activities. We plan to have a booth at the pavilion on Opening Day where people can renew memberships, new folks can join, and you can purchase some GSLYC merchandise as well. We ask you to consider renewing your membership in the GSLYC for 2024. We are looking into restarting racing for 2024, assuming we have sufficient interest. As the GSLYC activities increase, we will need volunteers for socials, racing, and our big event SailFest. If you are interested in volunteering, please talk with us at the GSLYC booth on Opening Day. For the Juniors sailing program, we are looking into funding a couple slots in Dave Taylor's name into the Park City Sailing Juniors program. New members are $150 per year, renewals are $100 per year. Members who were active prior to the current GSLYC hiatus in 2021 can renew for $100. You can also join and renew memberships on-line by visiting the Great Salt Lake Yacht Club web site: https://www.gslyc.org/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gslyc.us17.list-2Dmana…> We want to thank everyone for their continued support of the yacht club, and look forward to seeing you on the water in 2024. Dennis Hartley - Interim Commodore and the GSLYC Board members; Melissa, Hank, Bret & Ron

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GOOD NEWS - SO FAR
by Dave Shearer 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

We have had one hell of a winter this year! Lots of snow! Lots of wind! Lots of grey skies. I can say definitively that I am no longer a fan of the color grey. I think I would prefer plaid or mauve at this point. Many of you have been reading into my emails about lake level that I'm really trying to get the boats out of the parking lot. You are reading that right. We really need to open the parking lot back up for repairs and to just make room for all the parking traffic that is demanded from us during the summer. It was never intended that the parking lot would be long term storage. It was always intended as short-term storage as we waited to see what happened to lake levels. So, when making the decision of what to do with your boats in the parking lot, here is where we are now. The mouth of the marina is just over 5 feet deep. There is a strong desire to do some dredging this spring that will also make the mouth wider and deeper. I will give more details about that as it becomes available. As I stated earlier, we have had an incredible winter. Here are some numbers as of today: (understand that GSL gets half of its water from Direct Precipitation and half of its water from Spring Runoff) Precipitation of Normal for the water year (starting October) 139% Big number! Precipitation of Normal since January 1 = 169% EVEN BIGGER NUMBER! Precipitation for October: 125% Big number November: 124% Big number December: 60% Not exciting but not detrimental. January: 93% About normal February: 262% VERY VERY VERY BIG NUMBER! And we have had a great start for March. So much for the Direct Precipitation side. Now lets look at Snowpack. As of today we are at 129% BIG NUMBER with Bear River being at 129% This is very important as 60% of our runoff comes from the Bear River. Now lets look at another important number. It's called the Tea-Cup number. This is the percentage of water in the reservoirs that drain into the Great Salt Lake. Bear Lake is nearly full. That means The Bear River is coming our way this spring. Pineview, Causey, Lost Creek, Echo And Rockport are all in the mid 70% to mid 80% full number. Jordanelle is at 82% Deer Creek is 97% Willard Bay is 88% Utah Lake is 103% and they are dumping Utah Lake into Great Salt Lake as fast as they can. This means that the snowpack is COMING OUR WAY! It isn't going to be held back for the reservoirs. The lake bottomed out at 4192.2' msl in October 2023. We are sitting at 4193.9' msl today. That is 1.7' rise already. And runoff has just BARELY started. Now back to that depth in the mouth of the marina of just over 5 feet. We are going to likely get AT LEAST another 3 feet (maybe even more) of lake rise before we start to drop by evaporation this early summer. And we are likely to only drop 1.5 to 1.7' This would mean two banner winters and lake rise years. It is VERY likely that, if you put your boat in the water this year, you will be able to sail year round. There are some great activities planned this year including Great Salt Lake Community OPENINING DAY the first Saturday of May and also the Eardley Spit Cruise in early June. I have also heard that Great Salt Lake Row and Great Salt Lake Yacht Club are planning some great activities this year. There is a Crane Day still planned for March 26 or close to that date. If you are planning on craning in but aren't on the list now please get on there. It is looking like a great year or two at minimum to really get out there and enjoy the lake. Please do so. Dave

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Storm Damage
by Dave Shearer 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

Top wind gust today was 87mph. It did cause some damage. The fence between A dock and B dock has collapsed. One of the campers had his camper blow down the breakwall. We had a large tree limb break off. Catalina 27 near the end of B dock has a genoa that has become unfurled. Boat is in risk of demasting. Hartley, Your Coronado 15 is on its side in the dinghy compound near Shearer's fifth wheel. D28, mainsail is blowing all over the place. C 15, Mainsail cover is off and sail is blowing loose C33, Mainsail is laying on the deck We closed the park due to heavy wind but slip renters can still come out using the gate code. Dave

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A bit more storm damage
by Dave Shearer 03 Mar '24

03 Mar '24

Besides the damage the Brian Kenney listed, Merseth - boat rolled back into two other boats. Dave

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