Hopefully with the upcoming rain we won't have to be so concerned with the low water levels in the Slough.

watch out for the ice that gets shoved into the slough from the Fraser River when the tide is coming in..

 The pictures with Ice were on Jan 3rd and the clear water was jan 4th. Click on the photo to enlarge it. 

and below  is a link to piles of pictures and videos of those two days...

Slough photos with and without ice

Make sure your boat is ready for any cold weather.

Our first snow fall is always a good reminder to make sure  your boat  won't freeze up and bust things and also to make sure you remember to check on your boathouse to make sure too much snow doesn't accumulate. 

You never know what that wet snow can do to an object... In fact I had a bit of a problem with my 12 ft moose yesterday. He ended up laying down a couple of times during the snowfall.

Had to give him a few shakes to get him back on his feet. 

Have a safe and Merry Christmas and all the best in the New  Year..

COVID -19 LAUNCH INFORMATION :Daily Launcing at the BOAT club is only available to those individuals with annual passes

The boat club is a small private club that doesn't sell  daily launching passes.  

You can only use the boat club facilities if you have an annual contract.  

We have a very long waiting list for all of our annual moorage contracts (wet moorage, dry moorage, and annual launching privileges) . 

We will not be placing anyone on the waiting list for any of our moorage types while COVID-19 remains as a serious public health issue in our province. 

Please do not call and asked to be placed on a waiting list.

We will provide a notice when we are prepared to start adding names to our waiting lists. 

Thank you for your understanding in these difficult times.

Fraser flows update ( Updated June 5th 2019 )

Below is a plot showing the forecast for the Fraser River flows from the June 4th forecast..  You can click on the plot to  enlarge it or you can click on the link below to go to the B.C. forecast center to get the latest forecast.

Fraser River Forecast link
(plot below was updated June 5th)

 Below is a plot of the Pitt River elevations at the Bridge up to June 5th.. You can click on the plot to  enlarge it or you can click on the link below to go to the B.C. forecast center to get the latest forecast.

B.C. realtime river data link
(plot below was updated June 5th)

Low water at the boatclub

Watch out for low water at the boatclub this weekend. The combination of cold weather , lack of precipitation ,  low flows out of the Pitt River  and Fraser River in combination with Low Tides have all combined to create very low water levels at the boat club during low tides.
You can check  the tide tables to give you a rough  idea of the conditions at the boatclub (taking an appropriate delay into account for the travel time between the station you use and the time it takes the tide to get from that station to the boat club.


 I use the new westminster tide levels and add 60 to 90 minutes to have an idea of water levels at the boatclub.



Disclaimer -  If you want to use data about tides you do so at your own risk and are responsible for your own actions. So be sure to read the disclaimer on the website that you use..



Here is a link to the site  for the plot below    http://www.dairiki.org/tides/daily.php/nwm



click on images  to enlarge them

And here are several photos taken at the boat club around 9:20 p.m. You can see from the plot above that low tide is around 8:00 p.m. and that (for this day) the photos taken at the boatclub 80 minutes later (9:20 p.m. ) show the lowest tides I think I have ever seen..

Still have ice on the river

Click on the photos to enlarge them

Leaving the slough

Entrance to the boat club

In the Pitt River just north of the boatclub

Debeck to the north and Deer Point to the right