 The cove itself is about a mile long and 200 yards wide.On summer weekends as many 3,000 pleasure boats with around 8,000 aboard gather in the cove lining up in two rows with newcomers running a gauntlet of water cannon and taunts to take their clothes off (although the "Kansas City Star" reports that the overwhelming number of visitors in the fraternity house environment are male).Missouri has 18 officers assigned to the entire Lake of the Ozarks.