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Kirk McKay
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Initially Posted - 11/13/2002 : 16:58:54

So yesterday after driving home(if you can call being stuck in traffic, in the dark, in the rain-driving), I grab the mail from the mail box, and what do I see? A West Marine catalog, a BoatsUS flyer, and my first Spinsheet. Of course I read them all cover to cover, but what a mean thing to do! How do they know that the boat came out of the water last week? Boy did I get depressed. How many days till launch?

Kirk

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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 11/13/2002 : 17:06:43

Kirk,

Ya, but think of the hours of winter fun you now have looking, reading and plotting stuff to do! <img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

Don Peet
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The Great Sacandaga Lake, NY

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Douglas
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Response Posted - 11/13/2002 : 17:15:17

So what about those winter projects? Adding a topping lift, cleaning up the teak and replacing some of the worn out hardware. Just for grins go down and spend the night on the boat durring a storm. Its time to take care of the boat with the same care she gave you all summer. She should look new by spring.

Doug&Ruth
Triska (Alberg 29)
Tacoma Wa.

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bren737
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Response Posted - 11/13/2002 : 17:26:35

Kirk (and all 'northern tier' sailors),

You (all) have my heartfelt sympathies. Last week while flying into Baltimore I was looking down admiring all the beautiful colors of the changing leaves and then saw a very sad sight. . . hundreds of boats at the various marinas. . . shrink-wrapped. . . <img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle>

Makes me very thankful to be living in a region with year-round sailing. Makes the miserable heat of summer a little more tolerable--at least you can just jump off the back for a swim!

Bren Peterson
C250WB, #642, "Ruah"
San Antonio, TX

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 11/13/2002 : 18:04:50

I concur heartily with Bren (I have to - his slip is only 4 down from mine<img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>). We had our biggest Regatta last weekend (Wurstfest - like Oktoberfest but with more beer!) and the temp was low '80's with winds 5 - 15. Beautiful weekend! (Sorry, northern sailors<img src=icon_smile_kisses.gif border=0 align=middle>)
Derek

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 11/13/2002 : 18:16:17

Only 168 days, 14 hours, and 23.5 seconds till....

SPLASH

Don Lucier, 'North Star'
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John G-
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Response Posted - 11/13/2002 : 18:36:12

OK you guys. Are you going to sit all winter and MOPE???<img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle>
Get out some paper and a pen or your laptop and write down your best summer sailing adventure. Get it to me quik and you will have a good read in the dead of winter.
Check out my recent [url="http://www.catalina25-250.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2194"] Many Thanks.[/url] thread. Richard Geist and Ed Montague wrote a wonderful article that we put together and got featured in the current (Nov.) issue of the Mainsheet magazine. See pages 6 & 7 of the Nov. issue. This is the third story in four issues that our members have had an article featured in the front of the magazine.
You have an opportunity to share your adventures and relive them as well.
Use the e-mail in my profile or found on the [url="http://www.catalina25-250.org/officers.htm"] Officers page.[/url]
Don’t MOPE <img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle> Write!! <img src=icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>
Thank you,
John Gisondi
Mainsheet Contributing Editor
C25/C250 National Association

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[url="http://www.peregrinefund.org/"]<img src="http://www.peregrinefund.org/images/intro_mid_image.GIF" border=0>[/url]
 John G- "PEREGRINE" C25-#4762 FK

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 11/13/2002 : 18:46:14

Who's moping?...I'm gettin' EXCITED! <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>

Only 168 days, 13 hours, 31 minutes, and 46.2 seconds till....

SPLASH

Don Lucier, 'North Star'
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John G-
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Response Posted - 11/13/2002 : 18:59:33

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
Who's moping?...I'm gettin' EXCITED! <img src=icon_smile_tongue.gif border=0 align=middle>

Only 168 days, 13 hours, 31 minutes, and 46.2 seconds till....

SPLASH

Don Lucier, 'North Star'
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 Now Don – Just calm down. Splash your face with a little cold water and try not to hyperventilate.
How about using some of that energy to write a ships log of your best sail of the season? You love to sail, I know there is one great sail you took this summer, let us hear about it.
OK here's the deal! Remember those "what I did last summer" papers? How about an entire article made up of the best snipits of our ships logs? Come on it could be fun.
Lets show those snots in their C34's and 42's that the best sailing is close to the water. 

[url="http://www.peregrinefund.org/"]<img src="http://www.peregrinefund.org/images/intro_mid_image.GIF" border=0>[/url]
 John G- "PEREGRINE" C25-#4762 FK

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 11/13/2002 : 19:12:29

Okay..Okay...I'm gettin a little squirrelly that's all. I'll try to calm down.

Only 168 days, 13 hours, 5 minutes, and 37.9 seconds till...splash

Don Lucier, 'North Star'
C25 SR/FK
Lake Erie

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Kirk McKay
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Response Posted - 11/14/2002 : 08:51:08

Well I am looking forward to doing some little projects on the boat this winter-as opposed to this past summer in the 90+ heat. I bought the boat at the beginning of July, and actually spent July Fourth painting the bottom. Never again! I can't say I have too many good sailing stories to write yet, as my sailing life has just begun. I may have some good ones soon though, as we are bare-boating in the BVI's for 10 days in January. Not quite on a 25 though(40!) Can't come soon enough!

Kirk

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Response Posted - 11/14/2002 : 13:50:47

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>
Only 168 days, 14 hours, and 23.5 seconds till....

SPLASH

Don Lucier, 'North Star'
Catalina
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You know the time of day already???

I hate to break it to you, but the yard crew is going to be running late that day...Murphy told me so

Duane Wolff
"The Flying Wasp"
C-25, #401 std,sk
Chief Measurer C-25/250 National Assn.
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jellyfish
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Response Posted - 11/14/2002 : 14:11:53

an open invite! anyone getting the winter time blues who wants to catch a cheap flight into Pensacola for a weekend is welcome to either go out with April and I or if we are busy take the Jellyfish out for the day. I just cant imagine not being able to get out! being the off season down here we can probally find you some cheap rooms too!

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 11/14/2002 : 14:25:36

"You know the time of day already???"

9:00am, May 1st

May 1st is the official opening of my marina. If the slips are ready before May 1st, then I can splash even earlier. The marina I winter store my boat is occupied mostly by powerboats and they tend to splash more towards the end of May and into June, so April and early May are generally wide open for splash times.

Don Lucier, 'North Star'
C25 SR/FK
Lake Erie

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LOREN SOUERS
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Response Posted - 11/14/2002 : 15:48:51

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Kirk (and all 'northern tier' sailors),

You (all) have my heartfelt sympathies. Last week while flying into Baltimore I was looking down admiring all the beautiful colors of the changing leaves and then saw a very sad sight. . . hundreds of boats at the various marinas. . . shrink-wrapped. . . <img src=icon_smile_sad.gif border=0 align=middle>

Makes me very thankful to be living in a region with year-round sailing. Makes the miserable heat of summer a little more tolerable--at least you can just jump off the back for a swim!

Bren Peterson
C250WB, #642, "Ruah"
San Antonio, TX
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Bren,
You need not feel sorry for this northern sailor. Yes, I love to sail, and I would like to be sailing on bigger water than I can at the moment (Atwood Lake, Ohio) but I also love to SKI, which I have plans to do this winter. You see, I LIKE SNOW, unlike so many complainers up here. By Spring, I am again tired of winter and ready for the warm winds of late spring and summer.
I guess I am just a Yankee through and through. However, I am coming down to Mardi Gras in Feb/March. This will probably make me miss some skiing.
Besides, there is something to be said for the joy of anticipation, as suggested by Don Lucier. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder," etc.
Anyway, I am going to store away that invite to Pensacola for future thought.
Fair winds!

Loren Souers
Nimue, The Lady of the Lake

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jellyfish
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Response Posted - 11/14/2002 : 16:29:26

Loren, the Big Easy is only 2 1/2 drive str8 down I10! BTW we have Mardi Gras on Navarre & Pensacoal Beach too.

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Response Posted - 11/14/2002 : 17:05:09

Loren,

Glad to hear you can "diversify" for winter! True, there's something to be said about absence. . . but, for a second, when I read your post I thought you said "abstainence". Couldn't have agreed with that! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

I can relate to the symbiotically (sp?) opposed passions. I like to bike (bicycles) almost as much as sail. When there's wind for sailing, it usually isn't a good day to ride; when it's calm, it's a biking day instead of sailing.

Happy skiing--and "bead collecting" in the Big Easy.<img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle>

Bren Peterson
C250WB, #642, "Ruah"
San Antonio, TX

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 11/14/2002 : 17:49:30

"...You need not feel sorry for this northern sailor...You see, I LIKE SNOW, unlike so many complainers up here. By Spring, I am again tired of winter and ready for the warm winds of late spring and summer..." - Loren Souers

I whole-heartedly agree, Loren. Before moving back to the north ten years ago, I spent ten years in the south(Florida, Mississippi, and Virginia), and during that time I thought that there was nothing better than basking in a year round temperate climate and to be rid of all that nasty winter weather. Yet amazingly, after awhile I started to miss the change of seasons, owning a winter coat, the crunch of fresh snow underfoot, being out in the country after a snowfall inhaling the crisp morning air with the aroma of burning logs from the woodstove. When I lived in Florida it always seemed a little odd to me to decorate the Christmas tree while wearing shorts and a Hawaiin print shirt, or watching hockey on TV with a palm tree staring at me from the window instead of a pine or bare-limbed tree.

Although winter brings my sailing to a temporary halt, I look forward to the break to experience different things. I also look forward to the spring rejuvenation and the coming sailing season. Absence, does indeed, make the heart grow fonder!

Don Lucier, 'North Star'
C25 SR/FK
Lake Erie

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Response Posted - 11/15/2002 : 08:53:41

When Char and I and our family moved to Houston I learned very quickly that the heat can be more difficult to deal with than the winter cold. Made sailing in the summer uncomfortable. So we moved north again and I discovered the joy of season changes.

May only issue sailing on the Great Sacandaga Lake is the short season. Our lake is used for three purposes (1) flood control in the spring (2) hydro electric generation and (3) salinity control for the water of the Hudson River at Poughkeepsie. In years of drought around Poughkeepsie water from our lake is let out. This year the drought their meant that our marinas closed in the middle of September. Sailing season is too short when that happens and we miss sailing the beautiful fall in the Adirondaks.

Oh well. When we moved to Schenectady a few years ago we went driving one morning during the interview process and discovered a ski hill 2 miles from home. I wrote our daughter who lives in Salt Lake City and skis in some of the best snow in the country, "Eat your heart out, we have a ski resort 5 minutes from the house." She replied, "Ya, consider the snow!"

Anyway, I keep telling myself I ought to try it, maybe I'll like it. So far our winters here haven't had much snow, so perhaps this one will work! But then again, maybe I'll sit by the fire and read . . ..

Don Peet
c25, 1665, osmepneo, sr/wk
The Great Sacandaga Lake, NY

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LOREN SOUERS
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Response Posted - 11/19/2002 : 16:13:51

Open note to all!!

Well, I seem to have struck an honest note here. Much better than my, "Sorry C250 owners" string. Now a couple of us on this site have admitted that we have more interests than just sailing. Of course, we love sailing or we wouldn't be reading/writing to this site. But for many of us, we can't sail in the winter so we do other things. It is really great to hear from some of you about other interests.

Jellyfish, I would love to take you up on your offer to sail down there. My airline flights are already booked, and my time is short. My wife, Beth, and I sailed in the Florida keys too many years ago on our Pearson 28 (in charter in keys one winter) and we loved it. The water down there is to die for.

Another confession, my wife (she said she likes 'the Admiral') and I will probably buy a larger boat in a couple years when our last is out of college and we are not paying for a wedding. We looked at some beauties at the US Sailboat show in Annapolis. Nevertheless, it will be a used boat.

Thanks for all the messages. I love this site.

Loren Souers, skipper
Nimue, The Lady of the Lake
(on dry land in northern Ohio)

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Response Posted - 11/19/2002 : 22:37:26

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We looked at some beauties at the US Sailboat show in Annapolis. Nevertheless, it will be a used boat.
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Good news, Loren: Every boat you saw at Annapolis will be used in a couple of years!

As for us, we may just "downsize" to something between our daysailer of 22 years and our current 5000 lb double-hander (for us). Either that or the Admiral's favorite--a Nordic Tug. <img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle>

From another skier--who is about to get arthroscopy on a knee...

Dave Bristle - 1985 C-25 #5032 SR-FK-Dinette-Honda "Passage" in SW CT

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Response Posted - 11/19/2002 : 23:15:49

"who is about to get arthroscopy on a knee..."
Dave - I've been there & done that 3 times! Remember when you start your physiotherapy that if it doesn't hurt you're not pushing it hard enough!<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
Derek - end of medical opinion, now back to the forum!

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Response Posted - 11/20/2002 : 00:16:00

Just wanted to talk about sailing and skiing as well. I love to ski. Where I live I can sail on Saturday in Pueblo and on Sunday drive 2-3 hours and ski Monarch, Breckenridge,Copper Mountain, Keystone & Vail. Isn't Colorado Great!!!!

Bryan Beamer
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Response Posted - 11/20/2002 : 11:06:27

Byran

That's why my daughter loves Salt Lake City! Only she doesn't sail.

Don Peet
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