THE GRADE BOAT CLUB

THE GRADE BOAT CLUB WE PUT THE BUOYS IN LAKE WISCONSIN The Grade Boat Club installs and removes all of the buoys in Lake Wisconsin and the Wisconsin River.

Volunteers are needed to realign buoys and maintain them. We also repair and clean them before storage mid-October. Our current year activities are listed in our newsletters and at our public meetings. You may subscribe to the newsletter on our website at gradeboatclub.org. The GBC, in conjunction with Alliant Energy, distributes the Navigation Guide to Lake Wisconsin. Many businesses have these a

vailable as active area partners of the club. You can find a list of our area partners in the next section of this page.

Hello Tie-up EnthusiastsShift in locations back to Sticky Bay. The Shallows by the Islands was flushed out in high water...
08/15/2026

Hello Tie-up Enthusiasts

Shift in locations back to Sticky Bay. The Shallows by the Islands was flushed out in high waters.

Please join us in Sticky Bay and plan on swinging by Lakeside to get sweet corn and check out our bucket raffle.

08/06/2026

Hello Tie-up Enthusiasts 🙂

We are planning to reschedule the Tie-up to coincide with our Annual Corn Boil and Picnic for Saturday August 15th in the Shallows between the islands in front of Anchor at Lakside. We will have raffles on shore and the barges w/music out at the shallows.

Watch This page for added details and updates ✨️

Thank you,

GBC

08/01/2026

Hello Lake Wisconsin Boaters

We are going to have to cancel today's Tie-up event in Sticky Bay. Looks like the rain is going to persist into the early afternoon, and then just cloudy and cool after that 😔

Thanks to those that were planning to attend, we hope to reschedule though, so watch our page for updates.

Reminder - Our Annual Corn Boil and Picnic is coming up on Saturday 8/15 at Anchor at Lakeside. Let's hope for better summer weather.

August first ... summer is flying by 😒

Regards,
GBC

05/30/2026

Hey River and Sandbar Enthusiasts,

The last of the river buoys in the No Sport Tow Area and Channel Markers up to the interstate bridge are in place. The cut across from the bluff to the bridge is a bit different from last year, but should not be too challenging to navigate.

Enjoy this awesome weather - should be a good weekend for boating.

GBC

05/04/2026

Hello Boating Friends,

The remaining Lake Wisconsin buoys will be installed next Saturday morning (5/9), in time for Mother's Day cruising.

Call to volunteers; we will meet at the Okee boat ramp to load the barge at 8am. For ramp support folks, you should be done and on to other Saturday errands by 9am at the latest. On barge installation team will likely finish up by 10am or so.
Please join as you are available.

Thanks to those who supported our activities on Saturday 4/19.

Also want to update our Boating community that GBC has ordered a new 20' Utility Boat to replace our present smaller 16' Utility Boat. The new boat will be slightly wider and deeper to offer greater be safety for buoy operations. The larger hull will have more capacity and stability.

Your membership and donations support our ongoing mission to mark safe navigational channels on Lake Wisconsin and our portion of the Wisconsin River. Please join or renew and help us by donating through our website.

Thanks and regards,

GBC

We got about half of the Lake Buoys in this morning before the rough conditions pushed us back to shore. Completed the s...
04/19/2026

We got about half of the Lake Buoys in this morning before the rough conditions pushed us back to shore. Completed the section of buoys from Moon Valley up to the boat ramp in Okee. Thanks to volunteers that came out on this cool & windy morning. We have about another 1/2 day of effort place the remaining Lake buoys ... to be continued very soon. GBC

Forecasted Water Levels. The Wisconsin River is currently at major flood stage and is forecasted to crest early Friday ...
04/17/2026

Forecasted Water Levels. The Wisconsin River is currently at major flood stage and is forecasted to crest early Friday morning at a record 20.7 ft at the Portage gauge. The last record was set in 2010 at 20.66ft. For perspective, the record before that was at 20.5 ft in 1938. We are looking at record-setting flood stage over the next couple of days.
The homes along County Hwy V in Dekorra will be flooded at a level the never seen before. Definitely adhere to the no wake enforcement to prevent further damage if in the area.

04/14/2026

Hello GBC Friends & Volunteers,

This Saturday 4/18 is our install for the Lake buoys. For those that can spare some time to help, we will be starting at the West Point DNR Access at 8:15am. Need some assist to load buoys and anchors on the install barge, then meet the barge again at the Okee Access about 10am to load the remainder.

We will have a planning meeting on Thursday 4/16 at the Chamber Office at 6:30 as well.

But really need the volunteer help on Saturday morning.

Question? Message us or call at 608-279-8205.

Thanks for checking our page.

GBC/kk

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Lodi, WI
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