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Lake Champlain

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Yamaha
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2016
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Does anyone have any guidance on Lake Champlain? This summer, I'm staying for a week on Long Point (North Ferrisburgh) and am looking for lake destinations, coves and swimming areas, bars/restaurants, on-water fuel, etc. I'm particularly interested in depth and obstacle charts...or hearing that they aren't necessary. I like to explore; although depth finders are helpful, it's nice to know the areas where the bottom creeps up.
 
That section of the lake holds some of the deepest water, 400' off Thompsons point down there. I believe Point Bay marina will have fuel. You will also have bars/restaurants on the N.Y. side of the lake as well as Burlington. Basin Harbor, to your south, location of the Lake Champlain maritime museum, in Vt. Many coves and bays all along the lake. You can get charts online and i will go down to the boat in a few and take a pic of the chart for that area. I dock at Malletts Bay, just north of Burlington, 45 mins. by boat, on a calm day. Ferrisburg is about a 45 min. ride to Burlington from the south. Give me a little time and I can get you more detailed answers to your questions. Welcome to the forum.http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/14783.shtml the chart I use most is #14782.
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Reviving this thread to share interesting facts about Lake Champlain.

Here is a virtual underwater tour from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum of the oldest steamboat wreck in the World, The Phoenix sunk off Colchester Reef in 1819.

Shipwreck Tour: Phoenix – Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

www.lcmm.org www.lcmm.org
 
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Good news, Eric is a chef friend from our cheese days. Glad to see another quality restaurant on the Waterfront. His other restaurants are really good. We missed Hen of the Wood after the fire at the Hotel Vermont, closed it.
The Ferry Dock just completed a big upgrade to their Marina, an improved restaurant space makes sense

www.burlingtonfreepress.com

Doc Ponds restaurant proposed for Burlington's waterfront

The property owner says the proposed King Street ferry dock restaurant anticipates a time when the threat of COVID-19 will fade.
www.burlingtonfreepress.com
 
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Live water conditions from a webcam at Burlington Surf Club at the South end of Burlington Harbor. You can see the Southern tip and light of the South end of the Burlington breakwater to the right.

Burlington Surf Club

Burlington Surf Club
www.burlingtonsurfclub.com www.burlingtonsurfclub.com

Click on live current conditions at the top of page.

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Another statistic about the Lake Ice over the last 100 years.

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Saw this video of our marina. You can see our Beneteau at 1:43 and 2:45...
That was us on D dock. On E now.
 
We do have a Lake monster...lol
 
A drone view of the Burlington waterfront, breakwater and where we slip in the Summer.

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This was our boat in our slip, no more as we are changing boats and slips.
 
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Diving a couple of shipwrecks off Burlington.
 
Very cool thread zipper!
 
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