Water Lines Finished, New Neighbor
‘How’s Vandemere’ you ask, ‘Well, the corn is about 10′ tall’.
The guys are finishing up the water lines.
Friday July 11, 2008
We had a visit from David at Cayton and Associates, the guys putting in the water lines. Looks like they are finished with the water lines and ready for John Hardy to go back and continue on. I was happy to write, which was I think the largest check I’ve written so far, to settle up with David and their company. It has been a painless process, and I look forward to the next time we can use their services.
Sound Marine also came by for a visit with an updated marina schematic with the electrical layout. I’d like to find out from our slip owners, what power needs they have on their boats. Looks like we will power the marina providing a minimum of 50 amp service for every slip, which seems to be the standard in new marina construction. But if you have special needs I’d like to know.
Thomas has had a busy week in the office taking care of our newest neighbor. Welcome Waye and Kimberly to our community! They have decided on Lot 6
I promise I’ll get cought up, we’ve been designing a new website and I have code elements dancing in my head. I’ts almost finished and then I’ll share it with you, plus the photos from last week and a few other things. Next on the agenda, when this site is finished, is a total redesign of Port Vandemere Site. Soon we will be ‘pre-construction’ no more, and I’m excited about showing everyone photos of a completed communitiy. Thank goodness there is nothing going on in town this weekend! After 3 weeks of constant celebration the whole town is ready for a vacation! If you need to find me, I’ll be in the ‘garden shed’ aka. my new office, working on css code….
July 11th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
50 amp should work great. even boats with 30 amp can use splitter.
tks for all the updates. see you in the fall
Lot 2 and 50′ slip
July 11th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Thanks for getting back so fast.
Look forward to seeing you this fall!
July 12th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
50 amps is fine for us. When people first arrive at their boat, they tend to turn everything on at once and the total current for refrigerators, freezers, water heaters, air conditioners, etc. can approach 50 amps at rated voltage. Sometimes if the runs are long and the wires are of minimal thickness, the voltage drop in the wires, which is proportional to current, causes the voltage at the boat to be low enough to trip the breaker. This is because as the voltage drops the motors draw more current causing the total current to exceed 50 amps. If the marina is built just to code, which would be minimum standards, this could be a problem. You may want to consider checking with the builder of the dock to ensure that the voltage drops in the service lines are minimized, maybe kept to under 5 percent, particularly for the 60′ slips, which have the potential for larger boats and are probably located further from the source. Maybe this is already in the code for marinas, but it is often a problem in older marines. It’s always good to read your updates. We appreciate them..Thanks. Dave and Carolyn, Lot 15, 60′ Slip
July 12th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Sound marina has said that we are overpowering the marina, could be for this very reason. Our runs actually are not very long due to the placement of the transformers so we should old get a minimal difference bewteen the start and out at the end of the pier. A station will be at the head of each run and the max run, off the top of my head, is only just above 200′.
The electrical engineer is aware of the largest boats, largest power draw, being at the end.
I hope you both are doing well, stop by next time you are down.
Edana
July 12th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Thanks for the updates. We don’t have our “big boat” yet but I expect 50 amps will be fine. In your previous post you said you cruised through the future location of the marina docks - what were the depths you saw?
Thanks!
July 14th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I was running in about 8′ where I think the outer slips will be. Its hard to tell what my distance from shore was, I draw 5′. I poked in close where E dock will be and was is 5.5 to 6′, but I must have been 10′ from shore. I think our slips start at an average of 20′ from shore. I think the depths will be just fine giving everyone some wiggle room. I know from poking around with a 10′ pvc pipe most places I couldn’t feel the real bottom just the more viscous mud layer. The channel going in to Vandemere Creek is nice and deep 9 to 12′. The Bay River runs about 15′.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Thanks, that’s great information!