NFR Watch a bunch of bass and pontoon boats move a floating island...

[Josh]

This is kinda crazy. I guess it's a floating bog island that every so often blocks/threatens the bridge. So the community bands together and pushes it back out of the way.

 

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

That's very cool. I wonder why they don't try and anchor it in place?

 

[Josh]

That's very cool. I wonder why they don't try and anchor it in place?

In the comments there's some scuttlebutt about them trying it once and it breaking loose. Also could be that it would take some sort of significant environmental review/permitting/etc to do it in a permanent way.

 

[Josh]

Here's a bit more info:

Floating island? Wisconsin community members use personal boats to move giant floating bog

It was a group effort Tuesday when a Wisconsin community collectively joined their boats to create enough power in order to move a giant floating bog on the Chippewa Flowage.

www.northernnewsnow.com

And here's the story of a rich guy trying to get permission to move/anchor a different bog island in the area:

Uihleins’ plan for floating bog ‘difficult and expensive’

Business executive Richard E. Uihlein presses his case to move a massive floating bog away from his property on the Chippewa Flowage in a meeting involving state, federal and business officials.

archive.jsonline.com