Winter

[Marc]

Well guys it's official, winter is here, my tape measure said 4 1/4" in my drive this morning I just gor done snowblowing, it sucks.  Marc

[AdriftAtSea]

Welcome to winter.

[Marc]

Yea,I,m waiting for some legalities to get ovet with up here then  who knows?  Maybe down there

[Christopher]

Where are you from Marc?  I got about the same amount here in Milwaukee, WI.  I just love shoveling.  I've missed it so since last year.

I posted this pic in my thread about the boat I was SUPPOSED to go look at today.

[AdriftAtSea]

Marc's in sunny Iowa IIRC.

[newt]

No snow here but the line on the mountain is  coming down every week. Hey I got an idea- why don't a bunch of us rebel and go to South America during our winter and back up here in say May or so. I got friends in Uruguay  and its late spring there now....

[s/v Faith]

Well guys it's official, winter is here, my tape measure said 4 1/4" in my drive this morning I just gor done snowblowing, it sucks.  Marc

  I am so very sorry.  I am suffering also.  I find I need to wear a coat when I sail this time of year, and getting in the water is not much fun. 

  I understand that white stuff is really water, not sure if I believe it though...

  I have also heard that where you see that stuff, the water gets hard enough that you can stand on it.  I am not sure how well that works for sailing though... seems like it would be pretty slow going.  That leads me to believe that maybe humans were not intended to live where such things happen.

  Hope you escape soon.

 

[newt]

Quick! The first one to jump on Faith wins! If there are enough of us we can take over the ship! 

[Pappy Jack]

One good thing about Iowa is that it's south of Minnesota . I've seen nice weather in Des Moines(40-50 degrees and no snow) only to drive home to N.E. Iowa(20 miles so. of Mn.) and and have 2--3 ft. of snow and a temp. of20-30 degrees . Needless to say, I don't like winter!!!

Fair winds and warm weather

Pappy Jack

[Manannan]

No snow here but the line on the mountain is  coming down every week. Hey I got an idea- why don't a bunch of us rebel and go to South America during our winter and back up here in say May or so. I got friends in Uruguay  and its late spring there now....

Great, do your friends have enough rooms for a bunch of us 

[newt]

I was enjoying their beaches in October- lots of area of anchor out, great food, and friendly natives- plus more in Argentina and Brazil. They were sailing down there like nobody's business. I think the best part is the general lack of tourists though.
Soo... anyone want to start an armada?

[nowell]

Winter sucks! Its 66 here, I have all the windows open, sitting in shorts. God I hate winter! 

[Manannan]

close your windows nowell, you will catch a cold. 66 is still a bit chilly for me. would love to go back to my first sailing grounds, Brazil and South America, (last time in 82..) but anyway it is where we will be heading more or less next year. Yes South America is great, and there is room for everybody, plus music is great too, so let's go 

[AdriftAtSea]

Us northerners are gonna have to hire Pappy Jack to put a beat down on you wise@ss folk in more temperate climates...

Winter sucks! Its 66 here, I have all the windows open, sitting in shorts. God I hate winter! 

[Christopher]

Us northerners are gonna have to hire Pappy Jack to put a beat down on you wise@ss folk in more temperate climates...

I was thinking that same thing!  If nothing else, we embrace our precious little time we have to sail with a vigor found nowhere else.

[Cmdr Pete]

Those Southern boys always get smug this time of year. If it wasn't for Winter, none of us up North would get any work done on the house 

I think everybody has to deal with one problem or another particular to their location

You might have:

Relenless, broiling sun

Prevailing light winds

Frequent squalls and thunderstorms

Hurricanes

Strong currents

Nasty inlets

Shallow water

Deep water but rocks and ledges

Small water (rivers and small lakes)

A long motor to reach open water

Bugs

Low bridges

Living more than 5 minutes away from your boat



The only thing you can't get away from is yahoo powerboaters

[Auspicious]

It is starting to get pretty cold. I found my heavy flannel coat and dug out my Damart #3 long underwear for sailing. Another couple of months and I'll be in the Damart #5 for sailing and the #3 for sleeping.

I like seasons, and a little snow can be fun, but the darn cold gets quite old quite quickly.

[CharlieJ]

I like seasons also-

Brown shrimp season

White shrimp season

Crabbing season

etc

16 days til the days start getting longer again!!

Cold SUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Frank]

COLD...you want COLD....it's -12, 4-5 inchs packed snow on the ground with 3-4 more inchs fluffy called for this weekend. Guess it's all relative CJ  The Abacos are calling and I'm listening.

[CharlieJ]

NO WAY I want cold.Laura either.

It was 43 this morning and is predicted for 36 tomorrow. That's just plain too cold for us.

Laura has already laid down the law- She told me the other day, in emphatic terms-

"This is the LAST winter I'll spend in cold weather. NEXT year I'll be somewhere warm- you wanna come along, get your stuff done. Otherwise I'm going by myself!!!" 

And I believe her- I'll be working HARD to get "my stuff done" for sure. Cause I'm sick of cold winters also.

And yeah I know we don't get COLD, but it's cold enough for us to not like it.

Our motto-

Snow SUX, cold SUX