Hi and Dry on the Sassafras

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Has anyone heard any rumors? A recent letter to the editor in the NorEaster mentioned this rumor as he was complaining about noisy go-fast boats on the Sassafras and how the proposed Hi and Dry will bring more noisy boats.

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Greg
 
Skipjack Cove marina is in the planning phase on putting in a high and dry. They are waiting for the permits to get approved and it is a go for construction.
 
Perhaps what is needed is an ordinance to require silencers on all boats and specify a maximum db level that will be allowed.
 
The go-fasts and jet skis are really getting bad on the Sassafras on any summer weekend. I am afraid there will be another attempt at a "no wake" zone out to Ordinary Point - DNR enforcement is virtually non existant.

While I'm at it, can we consider having a marked channel at the mouth of the Sassafras, prohibiting the crab pot fields from stretching shore to shore? This past summer was a disaster as there was no clear way to get into or out of the river through the several mile wide mouth of the river.

Delaware Jim
 
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Originally posted by Delaware Jim

While I'm at it, can we consider having a marked channel at the mouth of the Sassafras, prohibiting the crab pot fields from stretching shore to shore? This past summer was a disaster as there was no clear way to get into or out of the river through the several mile wide mouth of the river.

Delaware Jim

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Jim, I am with you about the crab pots! I get tired of zigzagging every time I go in or out of the river.
 
I don't think high-and-dry necessarily means more noisy boats. It means more boats, and more boats in the 18-27 foot range, and that might include go-fasts. But if I use my last two hi-dry marina's as a reference, I'd say 1/2 were outboards and the vast majority (90%) were just family run-abouts and center consoles.
 
A boathouse with racks. Boats are stacked on racks using a large forklift. When you want to go out the boat is picked up on the forklift and dropped into the water. When you come back the boat backs up to the pickup dock over the forklift forks and is picked up and put back in the rack.
Some high and dry facilities are totally enclosed and heated in the winter so no winterization needed.
It is one way to get a very large number of boats in a small space with minimum on water facilities.
 
Oh, OK. I've seen them before, just didn't know the colloquial term for them. We call the dry stacks.
 
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