I want to publicly thank the wonderful work that three employees of the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), Laurie McKinney, Brian Shaw and “Rogor” Keller performed recently, on June 1 on the nude dock of Lost Lake.
The day before, I saw that the new platforms had arrived on the beach of Lost Lake, so the next morning, I went to the dock to see if the work was going to start.
When I arrived, the new entrance to the dock, in the shape of a T and a little wider, was berthed on the south side of the old entrance, parallel to it.
Laurie, Brian and Rogor started to detach the central platform (which was still in good condition) from the old part of the T-dock to then attach it to the new entrance part.
In the meantime, they also disconnected the south side of the entrance of the old dock from the land so that it can deviate a little to the north.
As Rogor pushed the central platform with his motorboat, Laurie pulled on a rope at the same time to slide it until it came face to face with the centre of the new entrance. A much-appreciated fact; Laurie and Rogor moved (at the same time) the platform with its two logs attached to the central platform.
Once the platform was centred, they attached the old platform to the new dock entrance platform.
Then, they completely unhooked the old entrance platform from the ground to slide it towards a floating dock located a little further north on the lake, while directing it with the motorboat.
Then, they slid the new entrance and the old platform to the right or north side to anchor it at the same place where we entered the platform previously. It was really great to watch them work together.
All this within a few hours… under a beautiful sun.
As I like to do photography, I took the opportunity to photograph the work in progress and make a couple of videos.
The old T entrance platform now floats, attached to a floating dock. It’s really nice to see it there. Enjoy it for now, because it will be an ephemeral piece of art—Brian informed me that they will have to remove it later.
Now all that remains is to securely tie the dock to the ground.
Once again, a big thanks and a big bravo for this great teamwork.
This day will mark part of the history of the nude dock (or the clothing-optional dock as we like to call it now).
Thank you also to the municipality for taking care of our infrastructure.
