Boat blort

I haven't been skiing for about a month, because we've been having cyanobacteria in the lake. We have some test kits that we ordered to help us be sure whether it's true or not when the town makes some announcement about it, or in particular, to help us know about it when we look at our dock and see green glop floating, whether it's cyanobacteria. Sadly, the answer has mostly been "yes" recently. However, today we got a negative test result and decided to try skiing.

The boat was slow! I got up okay, but it was definitely slower. This happened last year also, which I apparently didn't blog about. Last year I had called the boat place and complained and they said "did you look at the bottom of your boat?" Indeed, the bottom of the boat was covered in scum, and when I scrubbed it off it had quite a lot of texture, and the boat went a little bit faster the next time. So, today there was some boat scrubbing after waterskiing. Tomorrow is supposed to be a nice day again and maybe we will see if it helps. This spring before putting the boat into the water, I also spent a day scrubbing it on the trailer, where you have better access than alternately standing next to the boat and diving underneath while scrubbing.

Cyanobacteria also happened last year. And the year before. It seems to be a new thing. Thank you, climate change.