4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 1 Rear Commodores’ Report Mary-Ellen Zwicker & Mike MacDonald

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 2 Rear Commodores Report The RC Committees Planning mooring field Budgeting organizing

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 3 The RC Committees The organization of the committees Chair with members as needed(Task oriented) Committees will be better defined in long term. Be small and do something small Develop budget, do the task, retain knowledge Chairs handle regular things Special Project chairs handle “add ons” The RCs and chairs will adapt committees to make the committees work.

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 4 The RC Committees Developed a list of “must, should, and would like to” do (over $50,000) We have to control budgets and restrain spending We have limited budget but want to do something in most of the committees given we don’t know the state of the lease.

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 5 Priorities Spend as little as possible on things we can’t move. Risk Management. Organizing the budget.

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 6 Projects on Land Repair fencing Replace the water system Two zone control, two hours at a time. Electrical inspection (required by Insurance Co.)

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 7 Projects afloat Floating docks Repaired and floated again Adding rubber mats between docks Pontoon boat Winter cover (done) Depth sounder (done) Welding a safety cage for driver.

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 8 Projects that sink Mooring field inspections and maintenance Full mooring field Replacing 6-8 mooring chains with nylon Not adding any new moorings this year.

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 9 Mast Crane Cannot afford to have it inspected and “rated” Motion: The Mast Crane should be installed for members usage at their own risk in its present condition.

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 10 Planning of Mooring field

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 11 Current Situation of Field Stats (Oct 18/ ft above Datum) Depths StringAverage MaxMin A B C D E F Upper field Lower field Height of Wharf 9 ft above this. (4.5M above datum)

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 12 Current Situation of Field

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 13 Current Situation of Field To get a starting point for calculations I am using two 30 foot vessels with painters that will let them get 5 feet from the mooring ball as the basis for calculations “Too close” indicates the vessels are with 5 feet of each other. Negative values indicate an overlap of that many feet. Calculations assume ball remains on surface, if ball is pulled under the distances are based on pennant length and unknown. (E3 was condemned and calculations are invalid)

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 14 Current Situation of Field The following 10 moorings are too close when water datum is at 4.5m(level of upper wharf). Upper fieldLower field MooringMooringDistanceMooringMooringDistance B2B3-29.2D4E4-4.8 B3B4-27.6E1E2-1.3 B7B8-16 C2C3-8.6 C3C C4C5-4 C6C74.7 C7C8-9.9

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 15 Current Situation of Field The following 22 moorings are too close when water datum is at 1.3m Upper fieldLower field MooringMooringDistanceMooringMooringDistance A1B1-6.2D1D2-6.3 A2A3-8.8D1E21.2 A2B2-8.3D4E A3B2-10.7E1E A3B3-13.6E6F6-3.6 A4B4-14.9F2F3-7.7 B2B B3B B6B74.8 B7B There are 39 moorings C2C C3C C4C C5C63.9 C6C C7C8-34.4

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 16 Marking size of boats on mooring balls The length of boat is considered acceptable if all possible distances in a column are positive. (E3 was assumed to be a 26 ft nylon line) Maximum size of a boat on a mooring assuming a summer low of 1.3 meters and using the existing chains. (x indicates a boat less than 16 feet is too big to swing on that mooring.) ABCDEF x x x * *2828 7xx*42 8 xx* 9*32 10*

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 17 Marking size of boats on mooring balls Assuming a water level of 3.5 Meters with B3 and B8 removed ABCDEF remove * * *42 8 Remove19* 9*40 10*

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 18 Assuming a Custom Mooring Line at surface at upper wharf less 1 meter The following moorings are too close when the water is 3.49 M MooringMooringDistance B7B80.8 The 11 following moorings are too close for 30 footers at 1.3m Upper fieldLower field MooringMooringDistanceMooringMooringDistance B2B3-17.2D3E3-9.8 B3B4-9.6D4E40.7 B7B8-38.5E1E2-5.4 C2C3-1.1 C3C4-8.7 C4C5-6.5 C6C C7C8-15.2

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 19 Assuming a Custom Mooring Line at surface at upper wharf less 1 meter Changing the size of boats to 28 feet the 11 following moorings are too close Upper fieldLower field MooringMooringDistanceMooringMooringDistance B2B3-13.2D3E3-5.8 B3B4-5.6D4E44.7 B7B8-34.5E1E2-1.4 C2C32.9 C3C4-4.7 C4C5-2.5 C6C7-7.9 C7C8-11.2

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 20 Assuming a Custom Mooring Line at surface at upper wharf less 1 meter Changing the size of boats to 22 feet the 11 following moorings are too close Upper fieldLower field MooringMooringDistanceMooringMooringDistance B2B3-1.2 B7B C6C74.1

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 21 Assuming a Custom Mooring Line at surface at upper wharf less 1 meter Marking sizes on mooring balls. This does not mean that the mooring block is heavy enough to hold a boat of that size. Sizes of mooring blocks are yet to be determined. Reducing the length of the mooring line reduces the holding power of the mooring, which makes the size of the mooring block more important.

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 22 Assuming a Custom Mooring Line at surface at upper wharf less 1 meter Marking sizes on mooring balls. Maximum size of a boat on a mooring assuming a summer low of 1.3 meters ABCDEF * * *42 8 moved22* 9*40 10*

4/12/2015Spring 2009 F’ton Base RC Report 23 How do we proceed? Start from scratch A boat “L” long can go anywhere? ( What is “L”? ) Make areas for different sized boats Plan on marking moorings for length. How many moorings? Live with what we have? Proceed with Custom Mooring Lines? Is overlap acceptable?