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The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) web site has Electronic charts that my be downloaded. There is also a freeware program that can be downloaded to use the downloaded charts. These are the charts that will be used when we begin doing chart work for USACE.

http://chart.tec.army.mil/ChartServerV2.0/jsp/index.jsp

 

 Links to Unusual Past Events

• An Aerial Photo Shoot  was held in August 2003.

 

Related Links

• Link to an animated  Knot Tying Site  for many different sports and applications.
• Door County Advocate. 
• City of Sturgeon Bay
• Member submitted ideas for better boating in the Door County, click here.   
• Weather observations in Sturgeon Bay, WI
• NOAA's Door County charts page
• Touch Screen GPS creates and labels 10 point route in 60 seconds (uses Power point)

GPS Recreational Reference Points at Area Boat Launches
 are provided by the Northeast Chapter of the Wisconsin Society of Land Surveyors.
These are conveniently located very close to boat launches so that boaters can quickly check
their GPS performance.  Below is what they look like:

              

The monuments have brass circular surfaces roughly 4 inches in diameter encased in an eight inch diameter concrete cylinder that is buried in the ground so that the brass surface is just below the level of the surrounding landscape.  The Green Bay and the Sturgeon Bay ones do not show the coordinates.

LOCATION NAME	CITY	ADDRESS	LATITUDE	LONGITUDE	Elevation
			dd mm.mmm	dd mm.mmm	feet
Oconto Public Boat Launch	Oconto	C.T.H. Y	N 44°57.773'	W 087°46.935'	584
Green Bay Metro Boat Launch	Green Bay	100 Bay Beach Rd.	N 44°32.217'	W 088°00.227'	585
Sawyer Park	Sturgeon Bay		N 44°49.686'	W 087°22.809'	585
Kewaunee Public Boat Launch	Kewaunee	S.T.H. 29	N 44°27.830'	W 087°30.228'	582
Two Rivers Public Boat Launch	Two Rivers		N 44°08.758'	W 087°33.923'	584
Sheboygan Public Boat Launch	Sheboygan	619 Brouhton Dr.	N 43°45.085'	W 087°42.193'	584

The Sturgeon Bay, Sawyer Park Boat Launch, Marker Location
is 50 feet SE of the ramp right near a staging area for boats about to launch

The Green Bay, Metro Boat Launch, Marker Location
is 200 feet NE of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary Station in a parking lot end island.



The Kewaunee Public Boat Launch, Marker Location
is to the left of the east side ramp (Lake Michigan is to left).

The Two Rivers Boat launch Marker Location
appears to be adjacent to the Seagull Marina and the Water Works
.

The Sheboygan Boat launch Marker Location
is just north of the yacht club