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Name:	Hubes -	Reply
Subject:	Hazard/Shoal markers
Date:	8/31/2010 12:05:06 PM

Who determines where hazard/shoal marker buoys are placed? There's a large sandbar off of an island in Hog Pen Slough (straight across from Pleasure Point Marina) that's only about 2 foot deep now, maybe 4 foot at full pool. It's not really coming off a point like many of the sandbars you see, and probably sticks out a couple hundred yards.

Name:	Maverick -	Reply
Subject:	Hazard/Shoal markers
Date:	8/31/2010 12:29:50 PM

Marine Police determine buoy locations and then LMRA places and maintains the markers.

Name:	slownez -	Reply
Subject:	Hazard/Shoal markers
Date:	8/31/2010 1:11:31 PM

The Marine Police have a form that you can request that will need to be filled out and a diagram / drawing needs to be submitted with it. Then they check it out to see if it is needed.

Name:	ot -	Reply
Subject:	Hazard/Shoal markers
Date:	8/31/2010 3:33:57 PM

i hold my breath every time a boats goes over that spot!!!

Name:	Samdog -	Reply
Subject:	Hazard/Shoal markers
Date:	8/31/2010 4:26:32 PM

Marine Police. But from here on out it's best to rely on local knowledge. I pay attention in the winter and remember in the summer.

Name:	Spot Remover -	Reply
Subject:	Hazard/Shoal markers
Date:	9/2/2010 5:52:21 PM

Get a depth finder, use it, and learn the lake. A topo map can help, too.

Name:	Hubes -	Reply
Subject:	Hazard/Shoal markers
Date:	9/2/2010 8:49:33 PM

Thanks for your concern, but I have a depth finder, a chart of the lake, and have logged a couple of hundred hours on the lake over the last 4 years. I give all of the hazards/sandbars a wide berth. A lot of these hazards are well marked, even though they are much deeper than the sandbar in Hog Pen Slough. People go flying over that sandbar at speed, usually on a jetski or on a boat towing tuberiders. It's a lower unit tear out waiting to happen....or worse.

Name:	Spot Remover -	Reply
Subject:	Hazard/Shoal markers
Date:	9/3/2010 11:00:12 AM

Mere babe in the woods with only 200 hours on the lake. BTW, thanks for the thanks for my concern. There are a he!! of a lot more concerns on the lake than an unmarked place like that. Most people wouldn't pay attention to a buoy anyway. They are always running across the mud flat with all of the signs and buoys in Blue Creek.

Name:	Hubes -	Reply
Subject:	Hazard/Shoal markers
Date:	9/3/2010 11:28:07 AM

Yeah, that's 200 hours engine time. Definitely a few more than that on and around the lake. Ahh, the perils of youth.

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