Lola's Elk Lake Surface Temperature page

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Month	2005/2006	2006/2007	2007/2008	2008/2009 **	2009/2010 **	2010/2011 **	2011/2012
October	15th = 54 degrees	10th = 42 degrees 14th = 45.5 degrees	30th = 57 degrees	20th = 55 degrees	19th = 49 degrees	No Oct reading	No Oct reading
November	12th = 40 degrees	6th = 47 degrees 28th = 42 degrees	16th = 39.5 degrees	18th = 40 degrees	12th = 46 degrees 28th = 42 degrees	13th = 45 degrees 24th = 39 degrees	No Nov reading
December	18th = skimming	3rd = 40 degrees 12th = 39 degrees 20th = 39.5 degrees	2nd = skimming	12th = skimming	18th = skimmed once	22nd = skimming	8th = 36.7 degrees
January	Iced Over	22nd = skimming	10th = 34 degrees 13th = 32 degrees (too windy to freeze)	Iced over	9th = skimming 29th = Iced over		?
First Sail/ Boat set up	Jan 21st	Feb 7th	Jan 31st	Jan 18th	Feb 5th		?
Tear down	March 27th	March 11th	March 30th	March 17th	March 9th (due to no wind and rain in the forecast)		?
Days sailed Elk	51 days	22 days	34 days	**26	**12 days		?
Days sailed other area lakes	0	26 days	17 days	**19	**19 days		?
Total Days	51	48	51	**45	**31		?

**Sailing days will be counted when anyone sails in the Elk Rapids area for the 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 season. Jack had open heart surgery and could not sail until February 1st 2010. The 2008/2009 season he had thyroid surgery