Well it looks like we will still have wind today and tomorrow. But not quite as strong as the original prediction. It also looks like we will have off-and-on wind all next week. Please make sure your dock lines and other property are secure and ready for the fall/winter winds we usually get. If we do not have strong winds tomorrow, they will eventually happen. A quick trip to www.gslmarina.com<http://www.gslmarina.com> will show we get winds in excess of 80mph several times during these months. Be prepared. A couple other items that I hate to bring up but I feel that I must because some of them are costing the marina money that we just don't have during these tough budget times. 1. We have some people using the marina dumpsters to dump personal items from homes. This has caused our bills to go up for excess material. These dumpsters are here for the convenience of our slip renters and park patrons. But they are meant for normal trash from the use of recreating at the marina. They are more than adequate for the normal flow of trash we have. But bulk items should go to the land fill instead of the marina dumpsters. Lately we have had refrigerators, mattresses and other bulk items in them. 2. We have had some people fiddling with the sprinklers at night so they can have campfires late at night in the common fire pit. This has caused damage to sprinkler heads which has also cost extra money to the budget. If we need to adjust the time the sprinklers come on next spring to accommodate fires we can certainly do that. Come talk to us. 3. We continue to still see people using hoses with aluminum fittings. This has cost us A LOT OF money. These hoses are NOT ALLOWED. You must have brass fittings on the end of hoses. The water has been turned off for the year but remember when you bring hoses out this spring they MUST HAVE BRASS FITTINGS or they WILL BE REMOVED. 4. We have a couple slip renters (not a lot) demonstrating excessive speed in the marina. One recent incident had a slip renter going in excess of 50mph in the parking lot. The parking lot often has a lot of cars packed in tight. It only takes one kid jumping out from behind a parked car to have a tragic day. The speed limit in the marina is 15mph. A couple other notes: 1. We will leave the pump-a-head on through this weekend. Please use it this weekend if you need to dump your boats. If you have a boat with a draft of over 4 feet and need to dump your tanks, you probably won't make it over to the pump-a-head. That is ok because we have a portable tank for use. You can dump your tanks into our portable tank right in your slip and then dump them into the sewer vault. Please let me know if you are interested in this service so we can make the tank available for you. We will be winterizing that tank soon though. 2. The water is off to the docks now. If you need water the freeze less hydrants in the parking lot still work as well as the hydrant at the rescue dock. 3. The earthquake did a LOT of damage to the frontage road to the marina. We will be doing a large repair project to this road very soon. Unfortunately this may mean we will have to shut access to the marina for a couple days. We will do everything we can to minimize the time of any shutdown. I will know more on Tuesday about when and how long a shutdown may last. Please hope for precipitation. We need it! Thanks Dave