Too Windy?

[wlfnvegas]

OK - For all you guys that board on Lake Mead - How windy is "Too Windy"? My brother and I don't usually pay much attention, if it's too windy we find a cove, or get off the lake. But now that summer is here, the wife and kids are coming out with us, I need to make sure they have a pleasant experience (especially the wife).

[CP3]

You can go out any time in a tige it can handle it!
But seriously you are looking about 12-15 Mph to board if the wind is anything but out of the north by the wall. I think about 15-20 is going to be a little unpleasant. Once you get to about 25 Mph you are looking about 4 foot swells. All this is just from my experience which is about 9 months and I am only talking about boulder basin.

[xpjim1]

Too windy is when you find your Tige 5 feet under water. That equals a bad day, a very, very bad day

[Wake Havasu]

4 foot swells!



Safer to go to Catalina.

I only have a 24 foot boat!

I'd be afraid to put in on Lake Meade!

[talltigeguy]

I've got pictures of two different 24V's that were sunk on Lake Mead last Memorial day. The wind was strong, and I think the guys thought their boats were unsinkable.

I think the wind is too strong when you see those big whitecaps coming on.

[talltigeguy]

Check out the pics I posted here:

http://tigeowners.com/forum/showthre...light=memorial

[CP3]

I have heard there is a lake 30 minutes down 93 or 95 south of boulder city. It doesnt have a launch ramp but you can launch a boat by way of the shore. I was told no one ever goes there does anyone know anything about this lake.

[CessnaCaptain]

good question

It's Lake Mojave... We use 15 as a breaking point. Anything more and we are heading home. It is suppossed to be fun.. After that it starts to get miserable.

[wlfnvegas]

Thanx Guys - we decided to blow off the lake for this weekend and just go out three days next weekend. We've been caught in some pretty bad stuff in the last year, and I promised myself this year I was going to pay more attention to the forecast - besides - lotsa summer left!

[delongheavyhaul]

we went out to lake mead this weekend on saturday. was a little breezy in am. water not too bad. got some good riding in. wind started to pick up about noon. we headed in. then we went down and put in at willow beach on sunday. beautiful! it was glass till about 11. storm clouds were on there way, so we headed in. we have been in lake mead when the main channel gets really choppy with big waves and white caps. no fun. have to be extremely careful. at lake mead, when there is a breeze, you have to know that a strong wind is on the way.

[CP3]

Went out yesterday. Wind was ok in the morning and got in some good sets with no one out there. We decided to make the trip to callville. Bad Idea. We were out there with 6 or 7 footers. We did take some water over the bow but not too bad considering the size of the waves we did pretty good. needless to say we didnt make the trip back. They also took the houseboat renters keys so they had to stay at the dock.

[Wake Havasu]

hree die in lake incidents

Officials cite high winds in drownings

By LAWRENCE MOWER
REVIEW-JOURNAL

High winds probably contributed to the drownings of three people at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area on Friday and Saturday, officials said.

Recreation area spokeswoman Roxanne Dey said carelessness and a failure to heed warnings also contributed to the incidents.

A wind advisory was in effect Saturday for the Las Vegas Valley and Lake Mead. Sustained winds from 25 mph to 35 mph prompted so many emergency calls at the lake that the National Park Service requested helicopter support from Nellis Air Force Base and the Metropolitan Police Department, Dey said. The peak wind gust Saturday was 48 mph at Lake Mead's Echo Bay.

"People in the Midwest, when they hear a tornado warning, don't pack up and go on a picnic," Dey said. "So why do you pick up your family and go on a picnic when you have a warning at the lake?"

Winds should be significantly decreased today and Monday, according to the National Weather Service.

Meteorologist Charlie Schlott said winds will be from 15 mph to 20 mph at the lake today, with winds slowing to about 10 mph in the evening.

"Memorial Day will be the best day of all," Schlott said. Temperatures will be in the mid-90s at the lake, with winds out of the west at 10 mph.

The deaths came on the busiest weekend of the year at the recreation area, Dey said.

A 7-year-old girl drowned after she fell off a raft Saturday near Lake Mead's Boulder Beach, Dey said. Witnesses said the girl was not wearing a life jacket and didn't know how to swim, she said.

The body of a 21-year-old man was found Saturday at Lake Mead after he and his 22-year-old girlfriend fell off their small boat about 7:30 p.m. Friday. Both were wearing life jackets, Dey said.

Rescue crews searched for the couple Friday night and found the woman about an hour later. The search for the man was called off about midnight Friday because conditions were too dangerous, Dey said. The man, whose name was not released, was found about 5 p.m. Saturday by people on a houseboat.

One woman died on Lake Mohave near Princess Cove on Friday after falling from a personal watercraft in the wind and waves, officials said. The woman, identified as 32-year-old Laura Ventura, was operating the vessel with two others onboard.

Park rangers and paramedics responded and performed CPR on the woman for at least 10 minutes, officials said.

The two survivors told rangers they had been in the water for 30 minutes to an hour and were unable to get back on the personal watercraft.

Search and rescue officials rescued 28 people on Saturday. On Friday, officials rescued at least 11 visitors, Dey said.

[CP3]

We only saw about 10 boats the whole day. I did see the EMS at the launch ramp.
Everyone was hitting it hard yesterday.