What I found in Bowline Pond on Monday

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My wife and I went in there on our dink for the first time to check things out because of what I read on this forum. I've seen some pictures of this sort of thing that I think Rommer posted. None of that prepared me for this! A beautiful Luhrs sportfish high and dry on the wall! Everyone was ok and seemed in good spirits. Seatow had come and gone, unable to pull him off until the tide was up, about 8 pm.
My question is, was there ever a marker on that wall? It's not like it's a sand bar that moves constantly. This must happen all the time!
At least now I know where it is!!
 
NO - its a pile of bricks from the old brick factory.

Was that boat called Milkmade or something - beautiful boat
 
Is that your wake in the last picture?
 
Yeah, it was Milk Made. No Mike, not my wake. There was some kind of a sea chicken swimmin' around in there!
So, it's a brick "pile" not a wall?
 
Some years there is a makeshift buoy of 3 or 4 milk jugs marking it. Not this year, I guess. Thats why if I am out of my local area I stay in the channel. Last year I was in there and a 16' boat came flying in and hit it. A boy about 12 was thrown forward out of the boat. Luckily He wasn't hurt. They rowed the boat out. Local knowledge is important
 
Brick pile or wall, it doesn't make much of a difference. It's a solid obstruction made of bricks, rocks, cement and tightly compacted Haverstraw mud.

It will stop your boat dead if you hit it. If you hit it hard enough, it will do serious damage.
 
We've seen that boat up here many times. Damn shame, hope they came off easy with a few scratches.
 
Here's photo I previously posted. Really a shame to see stuff like this.

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It's nice how they don't tip over...
 
It's really cool how they can get their boats centered just right on the rocks so that they don't tilt left or right or forward or back.
 
It's incredible to see boats that size just teatering on their keel! It seemed very stable though, the folks on board were walking around on the side decks and bridge and boat didn't budge.
 
I can't believe that nobody does anything about installing temporary markers or some sort of warning. Seems that it would be the appropriate thing to do. Some Yacht Yacht Club's do this as a meanings of pprotecting cruisers who might need a place to drop an anchor at night. Just seems poor seamanship to know about a problem and not do anything about it?
 
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Originally posted by Flatsflyer

I can't believe that nobody does anything about installing temporary markers or some sort of warning. Seems that it would be the appropriate thing to do. Some Yacht Yacht Club's do this as a meanings of pprotecting cruisers who might need a place to drop an anchor at night. Just seems poor seamanship to know about a problem and not do anything about it?

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Over the years there have been markers placed there but mother nature here is a fickle beast and she takes what ever we can give her.

That said we are open to donations of used markers, chain, old mooring balls or even cold hard cash. If you would like to donate I'm sure our resident lawyer could set up a non-profit drop box for you to send to.

Seriously though the water is only inches deep at low tide, in fact sometimes the pile is exposed. With no depth and a bottom thats literally hard as bricks what can you place there that won't just roll into the navigable channel with incoming/outgoing tides/wave action?
 
I have some white fenders I would donate to the cause. Anyone have some rope and a heavy weight?
MJK
 
and if the weight and fender get dragged with the current and cause someone to run aground, you could be liable.
 
Spoken like a true lawyer. It wasn't my fender out there, it was stolen off my dock last week. (spoken like a true defendant)

MJK
 
How about the Coast Guard or the Stateof New York>. The CG has recently installed several new markers here after several boats ran aground where a small creek enters the ICW. We have an Inland navagational District funded by tax dollars that also does dredging along the ICW. Someone should be responsible and able to help. The temprary solutions that private individuals have tried to do are a good first step but the a long term permenent solution is needed.
 
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