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Champipple
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Initially Posted - 01/30/2008 :  05:43:03  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
Today: West wind 41 to 44 knots decreasing to between 29 and 32 knots. A chance of snow showers, mainly before 1pm. Waves 14 to 18 feet subsiding to 10 to 14 feet. (those waves are 5 - 8 seconds apart)
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  07:05:54  Show Profile
Yeah, and did he mention the wind chill temperature is 5 below zero at 0800 EST?
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  07:53:30  Show Profile
With a projected 7' drop in water levels occuring shortly here on the west side, my marina is going to be bone dry.

[url="http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/glcfs.php?lake=e&ext=wl1d&type=F&hr=00"]Lake Erie Water Level Displacement[/url]

[url="http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/glcfs/glcfs.php?lake=l&ext=wn&type=N&hr=00"]Great Lakes Wind Info[/url]
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Ed Cassidy
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  10:45:27  Show Profile
So, what do you do with yoour boat? Do you let it balance on it's keel? Or do you tie it real tight to the dock and let it hang in the air?

Just curious!
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  12:13:49  Show Profile
Well, this time of year most boats are high and dry on land. For boats in the water, fin keels tend to sink in the muck...



Wing keelers tend to not sink as much...



And some boats roll over and play dead...
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  12:40:39  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
Give us another 3 days at this temp and you'll see a drop in ice levels not water levels
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  13:17:49  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
We are blowing 30 gusting to 50 for the second day in a row. I just ran home at lunch and used my electric chainsaw to get a tree off my power line. Ah winter.
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Prospector
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  13:25:19  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
We lost power at O'dark thirty this morning. Spent the rest of th enight watching the dead elm tree sway back and forth over the boat, trying to guess whether the boat was in the arc path of the tree if it fell. I didn't sleep much last night.
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  13:25:59  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Frank Hopper</i>
<br /> used my electric chainsaw to get a tree off my power line.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Somthing intrinsically wrong with that statement....
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  13:57:51  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
Still had power. The electric company is at the house now.
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  16:02:47  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
I was thinking more along the lines of safety
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Prospector
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  16:05:39  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Champipple</i>
<br />I was thinking more along the <b>lines</b> of safety
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I don't think it would be safe to use the saw to cut the powerlines. I think he was better off cutting the tree...
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  17:26:33  Show Profile
I wonder if the power company told him to never do that again...
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  06:36:58  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
OUCH
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  07:35:13  Show Profile
Wow, Duane, was that at EYC?
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  07:58:29  Show Profile
That'll keep the beer in the cooler cold!
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  09:11:43  Show Profile
Oooooo... that hurts! And you're getting a big freeze next. Looks like that lady is gonna soak for a while!
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  10:45:43  Show Profile
That's the new Hunter 260 Ice Ballast!
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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  13:04:54  Show Profile  Visit Steve Blackburn's Homepage
I didn't know hunter got into the submarine business.
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  16:15:58  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by John Russell</i>
<br />Wow, Duane, was that at EYC?
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No - all boats at EYC have to be out of the water by November something or other. that was actually from the caption contest at that other sailing forum where they aren't to fond of our slow winnebagos.
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