By M.S. Enkoji - Bee Staff Writer David Casten of Roseville readies his sailboat to be pulled from receding Folsom Lake by his wife, Kathy, driving a tow vehicle, on Saturday.
Paul Stangis steers his craft to the shore, probably for the last time this season. Sacramento Bee/Randy Pench.
With the sun beating down from a blue sky and a steady breeze blowing, it hardly seems like the end of summer. But for some Folsom Lake boaters and sailors, this is it.
"The season's pretty much over," said Paul Stangis, who spent Saturday morning cleaning his 25-foot sailboat for winter storage. Yes, winter.
The annual ritual of pulling boats from the lake's marina before the shrinking shoreline leaves them in mud is usually done by boat owners bundled in jackets and gloves and maybe followed by a hot-chocolate chaser.
But the lake level is plummeting so quickly this season that boats must be hauled out of Folsom Lake Marina by Tuesday evening, said Tom Lakes, who works at the Brown's Ravine marina.
The lake -- what's left of it -- is still open for all marine recreation, but those who rent the marina's 674 boat slips must haul their craft out and either remove them or park them in the marina's parking lots when the lake elevation drops to 412 ...
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Published 12:00 am PDT Sunday, July 29, 2007
Story appeared in METRO section, Page B5
