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Re: Great Lakes Water Levels are falling due to Climate Change
« Reply #25 on: June 05, 2024, 10:42:22 pm »
Quote from: LMAO on June 05, 2024, 08:57:22 pm
I got caught out there many years ago when the wind switched out of the east and I was far from shore. Scariest boat ride back to the landing in my life


Once you make that mistake, you’ll never make it again. Guaranteed

Michigan was weird enough, sailing wise... Wouldn't want to go out on Superior.
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Re: Great Lakes Water Levels are falling due to Climate Change
« Reply #26 on: June 06, 2024, 02:17:15 am »
Quote from: roamer_1 on June 05, 2024, 10:42:22 pm
Michigan was weird enough, sailing wise... Wouldn't want to go out on Superior.
Not in anything less than an ocean rigged craft.  We fish here in a 16 ft. Lund with an 80 horse motor, and when the wind rips down the lake at 15 or better (long fetch) it's too rough to be out there.
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Re: Great Lakes Water Levels are falling due to Climate Change
« Reply #27 on: June 06, 2024, 03:18:01 am »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on June 06, 2024, 02:17:15 am
Not in anything less than an ocean rigged craft.  We fish here in a 16 ft. Lund with an 80 horse motor, and when the wind rips down the lake at 15 or better (long fetch) it's too rough to be out there.

I'm on the Flathead. It's big enough to be serious, and small enough to have a close chop. It's a nasty lake in hard wind. It does weird stuff too - closer to what a big river does. Superior though... You can just disappear.
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Re: Great Lakes Water Levels are falling due to Climate Change
« Reply #28 on: June 06, 2024, 11:13:05 am »
Quote from: roamer_1 on June 06, 2024, 03:18:01 am
I'm on the Flathead. It's big enough to be serious, and small enough to have a close chop. It's a nasty lake in hard wind. It does weird stuff too - closer to what a big river does. Superior though... You can just disappear.
Granted. It's like any place you can't see the shore from the boat...The Chesapeake Bay has claimed its share, too.
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Re: Great Lakes Water Levels are falling due to Climate Change
« Reply #29 on: June 06, 2024, 11:18:09 am »
Quote from: roamer_1 on June 05, 2024, 10:42:22 pm
Michigan was weird enough, sailing wise... Wouldn't want to go out on Superior.

Especially when the gales of November come slashin'
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Re: Great Lakes Water Levels are falling due to Climate Change
« Reply #30 on: June 06, 2024, 12:06:39 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on June 06, 2024, 11:18:09 am
Especially when the gales of November come slashin'

all them lakes are wicked in the winter. I can see why the legend lives on (from the Chippewa on down).
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Re: Great Lakes Water Levels are falling due to Climate Change
« Reply #31 on: June 06, 2024, 06:56:41 pm »
Quote from: LMAO on June 05, 2024, 05:25:24 pm
About 11 to 12,000 years ago.

It’s called Skyline Scenic  Drive and  it’s well above Duluth. And it was once the shoreline for Lake Superior after the glaciers melted

So I read  doom and gloom stories  about Lake Superior receding, it’s been receding since the end of the last Ice Age

Starting from where I live going north, there are a lot of remnants of the  glacier that once covered us


It’s hard for people to grasp how deep Lake Superior once was without actually seeing Skyline  Drive

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