[Board-2018] Dinghy Dock at an low tide

[Glenn Michael]

I am the Sgt. Schultz of dinghy's...I know nothing...

Thanks,

G

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 3:33 PM, Dan Gingras <dgingras at comcast.net> wrote:

> Thanks… I actually didn’t know that.
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> *From:* Board <board-bounces at portsmouthyc.org> *On Behalf Of *Arthur
> Dionne
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 17, 2018 3:14 PM
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> *To:* board at portsmouthyc.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Board-2018] Dinghy Dock at an low tide
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> Dan,
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> The little stub dock is Dock #19
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> Art
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Gingras <dgingras at comcast.net>
> To: 'Board of Directors' <board at portsmouthyc.org>
> Sent: Tue, Jul 17, 2018 2:48 pm
> Subject: Re: [Board-2018] Dinghy Dock at an low tide
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> Art,
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>    I think he was talking about the little stub dock which is
> perpendicular to the two longer docks.
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> Dan
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> *From:* Board <board-bounces at portsmouthyc.org> *On Behalf Of *Arthur
> Dionne
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 17, 2018 2:26 PM
> *To:* board at portsmouthyc.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Board-2018] Dinghy Dock at an low tide
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> Greetings,
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>             As far as I am aware, the small dinghy dock (Dock #19) was
> purchased and installed in 2016 at a cost of about $4500. At the time that
> it was installed, it was attached to the end of Dock #17 which is where the
> longer Dock #18 is now attached. Prior to the present configuration, Dock
> #18 was positioned in the spot where Dock #19 is presently positioned. The
> reason for the change in the positions of Dock #18 and Dock #19 was in
> effort to provide the most space for dinghys on the land side of the dinghy
> dock area. Obviously, if Dock #18 was in place where Dock #19 is now
> located it would extend further towards land than Dock #19 does now.
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>             We have had the problem of the dinghys grounding for a fairly
> long time and it appears the problem has gotten worse in spite of our
> efforts as the configuration of the river bottom surrounding the dinghy
> area has changed as more material (rocks and sand) has decreased the
> average depthof the dinghy area at low and high tide.
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>             From my point of view, removing Dock #19 will not appreciable
> help the situation. If it is decided to remove Dock #19, we will have to
> (1) store Dock #19 in our parking area or (2) sell Dock #19. Storing Dock
> #19 will result in losing a parking space in the parking lot and selling
> Dock #19 will most likely result in a financial loss. Whatever option we
> choose will not appreciable solve the dinghy grounding problem.
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> Regards,
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> Art
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> P.S. Sketch of the configuration of PYC’s docks is attached.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Briscoe <roysail at hotmail.com>
> To: Board of Directors <board at portsmouthyc.org>
> Sent: Mon, Jul 16, 2018 9:00 pm
> Subject: [Board-2018] Dinghy Dock at an low tide
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> Here are some pictures of the dinghy dock at low tide this past weekend.
> The tides this weekend were more extreme than usual, but you can see the
> issue with that last dinghy dock and the rocks. Any you can see how the
> small "T" extension also causes issues with pushing the dinghies even
> closer to shore and further into the mud.
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> There are 10 dinghies there and 7 under the pier. So there is plenty of
> room to tie up the dinghies even if we removed the short extension, which
> is really just in the way, and the last dock after the pilling.
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