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Voyager
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Response Posted - 10/03/2013 : 17:15:33

In my case I'd have to paddle out to Passage on the floating dock. It would be most uncomfortable in 20 degree temps with 20kt winds and 30 degree water. We just have to admit it - we live in a place that's just too co-o-o-old for 6 months a year. I occasionally visit the boat on the hard over the winter and enjoy a cup of coffee.

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Response Posted - 10/08/2013 : 13:07:02

You're killin me.. I was Diving off the boat last weekend, swimming. But my house needs some real work cause I'm always on the boat.

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Response Posted - 10/08/2013 : 14:18:50

Well just to up date this I punked out on leaving it in all winter, Came to my senses. I compromised by having the boat pulled at the end of November. Wee an extra month weather permitting. Back in the beginning of April.

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Response Posted - 10/11/2013 : 21:27:23

Scott - you had me worried for awhile. Weather's looking pretty nice this weekend, I always love the Columbus Day weekend, generally the last good sailing weather hereabouts. This year we'll have 3 nice, sunny days. Late summer could go a bit longer as the trend seems warmer and dryer than average. Of course, I hope the good weather hangs in into November. My haul date is on Nov 2. But as in years past I'll probably kick myself for doing so too early.

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Response Posted - 10/12/2013 : 11:18:17

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Voyager
 Weather's looking pretty nice this weekend... 3 nice, sunny days...
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">...with wind in the mid-20s out of the east (fetch to Spain)... I watched a ~25-footer with the sail cover on, motoring east on L.I.S., probably to Norwalk Cove for haul-out... They were getting a wet ride!

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Response Posted - 10/12/2013 : 11:30:29

Yeah, I'm hangin' on the boat right now trying to get some work done on the computer. Solid wind with big gusts - way too gusty today for easy sailing. Forecast is for lower gusts tomorrow, so we're probably going to skip the Annapolis Boat Show and go sailing tomorrow instead.

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Response Posted - 10/12/2013 : 18:42:48

I ventured out early downwind today before the wind got started in earnest, and it built and built until we had 3 footers and gusts to 30.
I took her down to bare poles coming back with the waves on my starboard bow. It was wet but sunny. I stayed in the river mostly but needed to traverse the open Sound for a few miles motoring to windward. I got back into the harbor before the worst of it.
The Coasties stayed plenty busy today: a 24 footer taking on water with 4 aboard - rescued by a good Sam nearby. A boat that came loose & adrift in Norwalk Harbor with the local fire squadron boat in hot pursuit. A 17 ft sailboat being towed into Branford Harbor with two crew onboard by Tow-Boat US.
Small craft advisories til Sunday pm. I might go stream fishin' tomorrow - the state stocked adult brown trouts a few weeks ago. Dee-licious!

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Response Posted - 10/13/2013 : 06:52:56

We were able to sail by using the harbor as some protection from the waves but with only a reefed headsail. Surprisingly clocking off 20 miles for the day. Not bad for those conditions. A little video of the fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh9SmFxOXPo

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Response Posted - 10/13/2013 : 13:27:29

We have been blown out the last couple of weeks and now the big temp change is coming this week. I guess a 60 day season with half a dozen sails is all we get this year, but it was better than the drought continuing. I am pulling on the 23.

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Response Posted - 10/17/2013 : 19:42:25

This past weekend my son's college sailing team was in a "big boat" collegiate race on western Long Island sound (Larchmont) the winds were 15-20 with gusts to 30+ Ode to youth. The J109 he was sailing blew out both the main and head sail (@$30k !!!) and they were not alone. This weekend, just a few miles east, Limerick heads to her winter quarters this Sunday. The weather report seems tame and the temp comfortably chilly so one last sail en-route.

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 10/17/2013 : 20:49:11

Peter - Sunday is supposed to be brisk in the low 60s high 50s. Saturday should be warmer, mid 60s, tame winds and sunny. Where do you haul out?
I was out last Saturday, albeit shortly, as winds were insane and sea state was fearsome. I don't doubt that the wind took its toll on their sails.
I'm hoping for a few more nice days before I haul at Shelton's Beacon Point just after Halloween.

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Response Posted - 10/18/2013 : 09:16:20

Today's paper

About 2 inches of snow have already fallen in Goodland and Colby in northwest Kansas today, with snow flurries expected to mix with rain as far east as central Kansas later in the afternoon.

Aw crap, oh well I am pulling this weekend anyway.

edit: I see today that this embedded map is live so today it is clear when it was snow and rain when I posted it, son of a gun. Who'd a thunk it.

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bigelowp
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Response Posted - 10/18/2013 : 17:58:59

Bruce -- I haul out at Norwalk Cove Marina, so technically a short journey but my plan is to head west before before the journey east -- and yes, plan on doing so Saturday.
Frank -- Geez it's too early for THAT!!!

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Response Posted - 10/18/2013 : 19:46:44

We're hauling out this Monday, and have weekend commitments. So I took the afternoon off work today and we headed out for our last sail of the year. Prediction was about 12 mph winds tapering off to 7 over a few hours. PHL airport logs show that actual was 12 mph winds building to 17 mph sustained with gusts to 25 mph. I got out the handheld anemometer and measured 20 kt apperent/16 kt actual on the river. I wanted to get pics, but we had all hands on the sheets to spill air as needed. We had 3' short period chop with water spashing over the bow - heaviest chop I've ever seen in this part of the river, where the water's usually very flat.

Things are so much more gusty and unpredictable this time of year, so I'm ready to haul out and count the days until next spring.

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Response Posted - 10/18/2013 : 22:14:23

Peter, I regret that I didn't head west this year, I love the Norwalk Islands and Huntington Bay. Did a few trips to the Thimbles, Westbrook and Faulkner Island, and a day with my son out to Middle Ground and Port Jeff. Most every weekend gave us at least one sunny day and fair winds so all in all it was a great season... one for the books!

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Response Posted - 10/19/2013 : 17:08:15

I'm out

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bigelowp
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Response Posted - 10/19/2013 : 17:45:53

Frank:

Nice looking boat -- nice looking van -- even nicer looking snowless road!

My final sail was virtually windless, but just nice to be on water not on the hard.

Enjoy!

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Response Posted - 10/19/2013 : 18:19:40

hey my sail number is 5811...not too far off, eh? anyway, took it out this week, lake gets too rough to moor it on the ball past mid october.<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by OJ
 Here in the Ohio Valley autumn means reefing the main, furling-in or putting on a smaller foresail.

As of the time of this post, weather.com says it's 95 degrees here in the 'burgh.
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Response Posted - 10/20/2013 : 06:26:55

Thanks Peter I do love my van, it serves me much better than a pickup would.

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Response Posted - 10/20/2013 : 08:51:27

Planning on a sunset sail tonight...

"Partly cloudy with a chance of rain, then a chance of a thunderstorm and a chance of rain in the afternoon. High of 93F. Winds from the WNW at 5 to 10 mph
shifting to the NE in the afternoon. Chance of rain 30%."

Should be our last 90 degree day, cold front heading our way this weekend, might see morning lows in the 60s.

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Response Posted - 10/22/2013 : 18:57:26

We're out, but not without incident.

We tried to get her out of the water yesterday, but the really large 6' draw full-keel boat ahead of us got stuck in the mud and took almost 2 hours to pull out of the water. By then the tide had gone out so much that our smaller/shallower boat also got stuck in the mud. We aborted and BARELY made it out of the mud and back to the dock. I was pushing with everything my 15 hp motor had! At one point our depth gauge read 2.8 feet, and I've hit bottom before at 3.5. (I decided not to panic the Admiral by pointing that out to her.) So now it's on to fall/winter activities, and counting the days until spring.

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Response Posted - 10/24/2013 : 21:13:33

Last Saturday, the weather was supposed to be clear and sunny in the AM, getting up to about 60 by noon and topping out in the mid- to upper-60s later in the day. As the day progressed, the skies were supposed to cloud over with high cirrus clouds and rain was expected overnight. All in all not a bad day for mid October. Being a full moon, the tides and currents were as fierce as they can get.

Winds in the morning were almost calm, and as the day progressed, winds were slated to increase to 10-12 knots. By the time I got to the boat and prepped for sailing, the tide had turned, the winds picked up out of the south and the harbor was starting to empty its extra-big tide out of the harbor channel, which sent the current south - wind opposing current.

As I've mentioned recently, the mouth of the harbor has begun shoaling, making the channel narrower than usual, and so the current got even more fierce. I was heading out of the harbor and a huge 45 foot sailboat was trying to head in at the same time. With a favorable wind, but unfavorable current and a lot of nasty chop behind him outside the harbor entrance, he was understandably eager to get into the harbor. As I was on the way out, I was taking it slow sizing up the situation - strong current, big chop, building winds - I was wary. So I held back my position as best I could short of the harbor entrance, and kept to the far right side near the rock wall.

Suddenly, the big sailboat that was flying into the harbor suddenly veered in a cross-current directly toward me. There was nowhere to go except to back up (I put her in reverse, but all I got was prop walk), spinning my bow towards the oncoming yacht. My bow was aimed directly towards his port bow. I was afraid my boat was going to slam right into his freeboard between waterline and below the gunwales about 6 ft back from his bow.

Somehow I was able to put the engine into forward and spin the boat away, but now I was headed for the seawall. Luckily at that point, he passed to my port and I got sucked into the outgoing current, pulling me away from the wall. A narrow miss, but a very close call at the end of an otherwise uneventful season. I did not need a mishap to happen to me so late in the season!

I shoulda known that such a big boat in such a narrow area with strong winds and currents focused in the vortex was trouble!

I don't see this situation improving any time soon as the area desperately needs to be dredged. The Army Corps of Engineers, the EPA, the CT Dept of Environmental Protection and the Milford Harbor commission all need to come to agreement and raise the funds to get the harbor dredged.

Stay tuned - it could take several years. For now, I will remain very wary of that spot.

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Response Posted - 10/25/2013 : 05:10:08

Seems like it was calm every weekend these last two months. Windy tue-thurs. And 33 degrees last night. Yowzer.

Back to biking and working on the house....

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Response Posted - 11/02/2013 : 06:21:05

Had a nice dinner sail this past Tuesday (29 Oct 13). Weather was nice (still in the 80's) and a great sunset.

Only one other boat out, a 26 Hunter from my Marina

We were both at the edge of our channel, kind of floating waiting for the sun to set all the way before heading in.

Now that we "fall back" this weekend, it will be harder to get a sail in after work.

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Response Posted - 11/11/2013 : 11:48:40

I checked with the marina and they told me I could have stayed on the dock until Thanksgiving. Hmmm. Maybe next year - however they are forecasting snow tomorrow morning. Still a few nice days to come - will take the kayak salmon fishing...!

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