further
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Looking for some advise here. I live on a private lake and we have a small beach/swim area delineated by swim ropes and floats tied off from a floating dock/platform out about 100' from the shore. The swim ropes extend out parallel to shore from the swim dock about 50' to weights we installed (buckets filled with concrete) that have chains that the swim ropes are connected to so they stay in place. We take the ropes out for winter and leave the floating dock/platform in place and in previous years, we just take the ends of the chains that are connected to the concrete anchors for the swim ropes and connect them to additional chains back to the floating dock. Last year, the swim dock moved quite a bit, likely due to ice or whatever (we reinforced the anchors of the swim dock this spring so hopefully it won't move) and the whole setup got screwed up a bit and we lost the swim rope anchor chains and had to redo them. Trying to make it easier on the winter and summer prep and was thinking to just connect the swim rope anchor chains to mooring buoys and leave it over winter so we can find or do you think the force of any ice would move the anchors? The lake does freeze over pretty good; but there is not much movement in the ice when it thaws. Or as an alternate, I was thinking to just connect vinyl coated cable to the chain and bring it back to shore - this way the cable would lay on the lake bottom and would not be connected to the swim dock/platform in case that moved again.
Any advise or experience on what's best?
Any advise or experience on what's best?