Brent,
Thanks for the information.
Maybe someone that worked on the Sundew will read this and fill us in on what happened with that mooring.
Buoys
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Brent
Re: Buoys
The NOAA Buoys are replaced with a winter mark, which is a can or nun. About every other spring the mooring is hauled up and inspected. The NOAA buoys have a different mooring then a normal channel mark buoy. We tried pulling the mooring for the weather buoy in eastern Lake Superior one spring and couldn't budge it. We got the buoy and bout 6 feet of the mooring out and that was all we could pull. We assumed that it had fetched up in a wreck or something. Hooked up the seather buoy and set it back in the water. NOAA was planning on lowering a camera that fall to see what the problem was but Sundew worked the buoy that fall and I never did hear what the problem was.
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Paul from St Paul
Buoys
When the CG removes the weather buoys out in the middle of Superior for the winter, such as buoy 45006, do they also pull up the anchoring system, or do they just put some old can buoy on the line for the winter?
Since the lake rarely freezes out there, there's not much chance of the buoy being pushed away by ice. The weather buoy could have equipment on it damaged by cold, ice and freezing spray, so I see why they would remove it for the winter.
Since the lake rarely freezes out there, there's not much chance of the buoy being pushed away by ice. The weather buoy could have equipment on it damaged by cold, ice and freezing spray, so I see why they would remove it for the winter.