Is there a method or etiquette to marking submerged stumps and obstructions?

[not enuf toys]

Re: Is there a method or etiquette to marking submerged stumps and obstructions?

It's pretty rare where I boat to find more than a couple big logs a season floating around. I did once waste a good hour towing a mostly submerged deadhead about half the length of a telephone pole down to my local marine police unit and lashed it to their dock.

Hahahah

 

[Rellik546]

Re: Is there a method or etiquette to marking submerged stumps and obstructions?

i remember last summer up here on the Connecticut river in MA i tied a bottles to a few logs one day and the next day i passed one of the logs and a guy was over there i pulled up to him and asked if he hit the log... he replied no im just cutting the bottle off the log so it wont float!!!!!!! PEOPLE!!! i understand that logs can sink after a while, and i also understand that they can randomly float off the bottom.

I told him i tied to the bottle to it to mark it as a hazard...im 24 but have been boating on the river since i was 3. this guy was clearly new to being on the river.

ive always kept extra bottles on the boat since about 2 years ago when i was kneeboarding and hit a slightly submerged dead head and got about 3 feet of unexpected air and took a nose dive. after the rain raises the water sometime it picks up trees resting on the shore so we always watch out for them but its damn scary when ur playing behind the boat and almost hit one.

 

[scooper77515]

Re: Is there a method or etiquette to marking submerged stumps and obstructions?

im just cutting the bottle off the log so it wont float!!!!!!

Holy CRAP! Are there really people out there that are THAT dumb? And they are allowed to drive a boat?

Well, now that i think about it, that 900 lb log just MIGHT be held up to the surface by that empty 2-liter coke bottle....

I wonder how/why he thinks that bottle "got tangled up" with that log in the first place, causing it to rise to the surface?

I am going to ditch the 2-liter clear bottles and look for some big white bleach bottles. They are WAY more visible from a long distance.

The coke bottles help, but they aren't nearly as visible as the white bottles. But HEY!!! That was all I had at the time!

 

[heyyou325]

Re: Is there a method or etiquette to marking submerged stumps and obstructions?

The guy who said to call the marine patrol was right on. They usually stick a red flag on it and alert whoever is responsible for cleaning keeping the water safe. There are markers probably about 3' high, never measured them with either red flags, or reflectors on them for not much money. In the county I live, if you alert the waterways department they will tow the log in and return your marker. Assuming they can find it. A friend of mine used to head the department here.