White Lake Yacht Club Waterfront

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Water Levels	Scow Dock and Lifts 03
Main dock repairs 03	Bottom survey 1999
Dredging project 03

Water Levels

Link to Army Corps of Engineers web page for water levels.

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Scow Dock and Lifts

Jack Rillema with the help of Jamie Duncan and others organizes a group of volunteers to put in the scow docks and lifts.   This saves us about $5000.00 for in and out.

This type of volunteer effort is part of what makes the White Lake Yacht Club a great place for all.

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Main Dock Repairs 

late 2002 and 2003

On August 28th 2002, with leadership from Ned & Allan Dake and help from Craig Gates & Jim Allan we began the repair of the wave breaks on the front of the club dock. We worked 3 hours on Thursday evening. On Friday morning Jon Penn and son Aaron, brought their pontoon boat with crane and helped us finish the first wave break and begin the second one this took about 5 hours. Saturday in 5 hours we finished the second wave break and pulled a third out of the water and began its repair which is complete. Dan Mojzak and Jack Rillema stopped by to lend a hand. On Monday (Labor day) Jon Penn, Ned Dake and Allan Dake repaired the next one.

There is one more to pull up from the bottom on the west end. We hope to lower those done about 5 years ago to make most of them even during this summer.

On Thursday May 8, 2003, Commodore Karolyn Rillema and Past Commodores Ned and Allan Dake, power washed the T dock and all the slip fingers on the outer dock. They finished the main dock and the rest of the small slip finger piers on Friday the 9th. About 26 total hours with two power washer 3000 psi units. We would may put a sealer on the dock but this may have to wait until fall. It looks like a new dock, if you see these members thank them for the effort on behalf of all members.

King Company from Holland came on May 15th and replaced the broken piling between slips 3 & 4. They also removed the old docks and stringers on both sides of slip 3 and set them on the T dock to be dismantled. Craig Gates, John Ryan, Jon Penn, Ned Dake and Allan Dake then took all of this mess apart and carted the worst of the wood to the dump. The rest had all of the nails removed and is ready to be used on the new stringers.

Jon Penn, Allan Dake & Ned Dake will be replacing the stringers and nailing on new dock boards during the week of May 19th This should be completed by Memorial Day with luck. We can always use help on these projects a volunteer club is what makes White Lake Yacht Club a great place.

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Dredging Project October 2003

On October 20th we began a dredging project to have an area behind the outer slips that would be 7 feet deep at September 1 2003 water levels. The area would extend back 50 feet behind all the outer slips. It would also extend 70 feet east of the outer T to give entrance and exit from the east basin.

In order for the equipment to move the spoils to the shore we also needed to dredge and area east of the Youngquist dock about 30 feet wide and 5 feet deep. This will give our small boat sailors more water to work with in west and northwest winds. In the spring we will extend the launch ramp at least 25 feet from its present position. This project was budgeted for $27,000.00 which included 10% overage for hill problems which of course we did encounter. We believe we will be within that amount when the final bill comes in.

The parking lot on the east side was leveled and enlarged about three times and really looks nice. We also added and area behind this parking lot to the south that may be used someday for another project. This will need some final grading and seeding in the spring.

Below are pictures taken by our Secretary George Byam as the project was ongoing.

 

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page updated May 5, 2005

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