Behind the Boats

We’re looking at a week of highs in the upper 80s and humid, i.e. summer! Water levels look to be receding back to their long term averages and sandbars are coming out in force. Long story short, this coming weekend…

It’s a breezy one today. Gusts to 30mph – the kind of wind you hunker down in and wait for the evening calm to make any progress. Luckily, it calms down Saturday and Sunday with light winds from the South…

Lots of sun this past week and some hot and humid temps to go with it. This has been great for water levels as they continue to come down. We’ve got a small amount of rain in the forecast this…

Only a few weeks late, it looks like we’ll be able to get rolling with the 2019 season. High water will be receding all week with sandbars coming out just in time for the weekend with some room to spare.…

Once again we find ourselves stuck in an unstable weather pattern with water levels predicted to spike next weekend (currently somewhere around 25kcfs, most sandbars go away at 15kcfs). This is a real repercussion of climate change in the Midwest…

No luck this time around. Water levels will stay high through the Memorial Day weekend and quickly start dropping Monday into Tuesday. Locally, we’ll have a lot of rain all day Friday so Tuesday might slip into Wednesday but everything…

5/21 7:07am Update: Just waiting on this morning’s river forecast update. Castle Rock about 36 hours upstream is still putting out a lot less water than expected given what is going on upstream of Castle Rock. This is not promising…

Looks like our high waters won’t quite be out of the system before this weekend so our first official day will be May 25th. Long range forecast has some rain/storms over the weekend but so far this appears limited to…

It’s been a cold and wet spring so I propose we’re due for a reversion to the mean with a hot, sun filled summer. Water levels are currently running well above their long term average with more wet weather in…

Eventually. But the days are noticeably longer, the weather is (mostly) getting more mild, and reservations have been building. That’s good enough to hold me over until the leaves come back. In the meantime, our reservation system is open!

We’ve officially called it quits for the winter.  Reservations can now be made for the 2019 season starting in May!

Update: Water levels will come up a few inches over the weekend.  Not enough to cancel trips but sandbars will be in shorter supply than usual.  Everyone will have a place to camp (there’s only about 14 seperate groups going…

Water levels continue to recede as expected.  We’ll have plenty of sandbars out for this Sep 15-16 weekend and with clear skies, highs in the mid 80s, and favorable winds, conditions will be about as good as they get.  Now…

What was forecast to be a small amount of rain has, once again, turned ugly. Over the past two days most of Wisconsin has been hit with multiple rounds of high rainfall storms. Current river projections look bad. Really bad.…

Despite all of the rain and flooding last week (and really the two weeks prior to that as well), we’re looking pretty good for the weekend. Most of that rain was local or south of us leaving the vast majority…

8:26am 8/29 Update: Another nasty storm last night in pretty much the exact worst place. We’ve cancelled all trips through Monday due to serious flooding. We’ll see upwards of 18 million gallons of water per minute at its peak, 3…

Quick update: The Arena landing is open for business again! Any trips that were scheduled for Arena are now operating normally. Mazomanie landing is also now accessible via Hwy 78 to Cty Y (~5 minutes further than going through town…

First off – the Wisconsin River is 100% unaffected by the flooding nearby. Well, 85% unaffected would be more accurate. The majority of the rainfall was in the Rock and Sugar River watersheds. Only a relatively minor tributary of the…

No word on how long it’ll take to fix the approach but for the foreseeable future, plan to get to Spring Green via Hwy 12/60 through Sauk City or Hwy 151/23 through Dodgeville. Hwy 14 is out. ===== Quick update:…

Quick update: I forgot we still have to be able to get you on the river once you get to us. Currently our only accessible landing is PDS. Mazomanie looks to be out of the picture for at least a…

Our ridiculous string of perfect conditions continues this weekend.  While we’re bookended by some unstable weather on either side, Friday through Sunday look amazing.  Highs in the mid 80s with light winds mostly at your back plus perfect water conditions…

Once again, conditions this weekend are phenomenal.  Clear skies with highs in the mid 80s and nights in the low 60s.  Water levels are at seasonal lows which means tons of sandbars.  Even the winds should be light and favorable…

With one mediocre exception, this weekend is looking pretty great.  Highs in the low 90s with 50% cloud cover so plenty warm enough to swim but not so much sun you feel like you’re gonna melt (but still bring sunscreen). …

Too soon to say anything with certainty but the long range forecast is looking pretty good for the coming week/weekend with highs getting into the upper 80s and sandbars for miles.  It’s not called the river of a thousand isles…

Looks like highs in the 70s with a chance of isolated storm Sunday afternoon.  Sandbars are at late summer peaks – they are everywhere.  We’re sold out for this weekend but you might get lucky if someone cancels last minute…

Looks like we’ve got a low pressure system slowly moving through our area this weekend.  It’ll be wet today and tomorrow but by Friday evening the low should be moving Eastward.  Not a lot of instability with this one so…

July 13 Update Looks like better news on the weather front.  We should see most rain or storms on Friday afternoon/evening and a limited chance of rain on Saturday.  There’s even potential for the whole shortwave system to fall off…

Crazy amount of wind for a few minutes last night as the first storm came by but otherwise the rest of the night turned out to be pretty quiet with only a small amount of rain.  Still questionable what exactly…