Author Archives: Lloyd Roberts

Damariscotta Jan 6 2017, plenty of wind, most boats wearing storm sails and tearing around on 8-10 ice. Found GPS, changed batteries, remembered how GPS worked, acquired satellites, “ready to navigate”, witnessed zero (Bill Bunting), played with unaccustomed heavy air, … Continue reading →

Chicky looks like early April. Open waters getting larger, accesses getting wider. No good. Maybe single numbers for 3 days soon will bring it back. Surface like ground glass. Dusting of snow shows open waters nicely this AM. Go to … Continue reading →

Not seen from shore or breakfast table is a significant sinking pressure ridge down the center of the lake from close to the visible swimming hole to near South shore where there is another skirting the shore. Thickness over all … Continue reading →

Buchholz called from Dammy about 10 AM that it is a go with grey pebbly surface. The hard core is going to give it a try. See dammy cam. Lloyd  

Our recent rain, almost 2 inches and following snow raised the lake some 6 inches so access is sketchy, plank needed. The surface looks as though thousands of golf balls were dumped in the slush, marbles in better areas. This … Continue reading →