Boats lined up to launch at Lake Berryessa this Memorial Day weekend, but with most resorts closed, police and fire officials reported few incidents at the lake.

“It’s been very, very quiet this weekend ... surprisingly quiet for a holiday weekend,” said Pete Munoa, CalFire fire marshal and battalion chief. “We expected to be busier,” he added.

The California Highway Patrol reported no major incidents at the lake, though the Bureau of Reclamation reported a crash of two motorcycles and vehicle at about 6:30 p.m. Monday evening, half a mile south of the Bureau’s Visitor Center on Knoxville Road. There were no injuries, according to CalFire’s dispatch center.

Napa County Sheriff’s deputies patrolled both the waters and the lakeshore during the three-day holiday weekend.

Deputies arrested “two or three” boaters for driving under the influence and issued about 20 citations for various boating violations, including driving recklessly and not having floatation devices, Napa County Sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Clark said. Sheriff’s deputies also launched a search-and-rescue operation to rescue a jet skier reported missing at midnight Sunday, he said. The stranded jet skier was found on the lake at 3:30 a.m. Monday.

“It’s been a lot easier, a lot quieter,” Clark said from the Napa County Sheriff’s substation.

Pope Valley Repair and Towing, the main towing service at the lake, were called to two or three tows, owner Jeff Parady said Monday.

“It’s been dead,” Parady said from Pope Valley.

Four privately run resorts are closed this summer under a plan by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation to redesign the lakeshore.

Mike Finnegan, the Bureau of Reclamation’s area manager, on Friday said three resorts will remain open this summer under interim contracts — Steele Park and  Markley Cove resorts and Pleasure Cove Marina. Steele Park offers limited services, including a boat launching facility.

The Bureau of Reclamation, which canceled all previous negotiations with concessionaires because of an error during the bidding process, recently re-issued a new request for proposal to select long-term private concessionaires to run the seven resorts, including Spanish Flat Resort. The deadline to submit proposals is Aug. 14, Finnegan said.

Markley Cove’s co-owner Linda Frazier on Monday said the resort’s five cabins were rented out and about 200-plus boats launched from the resort each day.

“Our (boat) launch ramp was very busy,” she said. “We like being busy.”

She signed a two-year interim contract Saturday with the Bureau of Reclamation on Saturday, she said.

Oak Shores day-use area remained busy throughout the weekend, said Mike McGraw, a park ranger for the Bureau of Reclamation. Many families were at the lake swimming, he said.

“I think overall people were able to get out and enjoy themselves,” he said.

While Capell Cove’s parking lot filled up every day, boaters who came early Saturday morning had no trouble finding a parking space at the free public boat launching facility.

“It didn’t seem that many people were there,” said Curtis Han of Angwin, a chiropractor in St. Helena and U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary member, who was at the lake to perform a vessel safety check.

Stephen Nipper, an airline mechanic, who came to the lake to fish with his 14-year-old son, William, did not see too many boats on the water either.

“I thought it was kind of slow for Memorial Day (weekend),” said Nipper, a Vacaville resident.

Joel Delizonna, a San Francisco Fire Department fire boat operator, came on Saturday with his children, like the other boaters said they enjoyed the day.

“It was beautiful,” he said.

And while Spanish Flat Resort’s gates were closed, an exhibit on the history of Lake Berryessa and the town of Monticello drew about 250 people Sunday at the nearby Spanish Flat Village Center on Knoxville Road.

Longtime area resident Carol Fitzpatrick organized “Berryessa Valley Exhibit” to keep the story of Monticello alive. The town disappeared under the manmade lake in the mid 1950s.

Marcia Ritz, owner of the Spanish Flat Country Store, said the entire parking lot was full.

“It was incredible,” she said.