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redeye
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Initially Posted - 01/05/2015 :  07:52:04  Show Profile
Wow.. single handed winds up to 25 or dare I say 30... It was a hoot!!

And I didn't reef, like an idiot...
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islander
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Response Posted - 01/05/2015 :  08:16:20  Show Profile
Oh sure, Rub it in...No hope around here for another 4 months
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redeye
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Response Posted - 01/05/2015 :  08:36:29  Show Profile
It's gonna be a high of 22 on Thursday around here... we hardly know how to act!

Thought yall would enjoy a sailing shot while you are locked in...
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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 01/05/2015 :  10:13:48  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
I was out sailing a week ago. The weather turned colder after that weekend and then we were away for the New year's week. But this past Sunday the temps went up to 60F, though, it was drizzling in the morning and threatening rain the rest of the day. I decided to clean my cockpit non-skid surfaces and then since the weather was okay, just relaxed on the boat for a couple of hours. Now it's around 40F and taking a nose dive for the next few days. So...no sailing for now but hopes for another good weekend which anything greater than 40F and sunny is fair game for a sail.
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 01/05/2015 :  13:42:19  Show Profile
Funny thing - we were promised an El Niño winter here in the North East, meaning moderate temps, wetter than average, with zonal flow and occasional warm fronts with southerlies coming up the Atlantic seaboard. Previous El Niño winters have been uneventful for the most part.
What we seem to be getting however is an El Niño backdrop with a Polar Vortex overlay! Otherwise known as a roller coaster: warm wet stretches in the 50s&60s and cold windy outbreaks in the noughts & teens!!!
All we need now is a Polar Vortex ++ a huge storm - we'll get clobbered by the Blizzard of '15!
Maybe spring will come early.
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redeye
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Response Posted - 01/08/2015 :  12:17:27  Show Profile
From the web..

Greetings from the Alabama Coast...
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islander
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Response Posted - 01/08/2015 :  12:49:54  Show Profile
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Greetings from the Alabama Coast...

Nope, Rocky Neck State Park in Conn. Picture is from 2011 but
A little chilly out sailing today...
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OJ
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Response Posted - 01/08/2015 :  13:34:06  Show Profile
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He's going to catch a cold
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Ape-X
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Response Posted - 01/08/2015 :  15:41:01  Show Profile
OJ, looks to me like he already caught it: on his helmet, in his beard, PFD.......
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 01/08/2015 :  22:44:37  Show Profile
To me, the scariest weather forecast is for "freezing spray". EVERYTHING gets coated with a heavy glaze of ice - you can't drive, you can't walk and forget trying to sail!
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Response Posted - 01/09/2015 :  08:15:21  Show Profile
I think he's smiling!
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 01/09/2015 :  18:57:07  Show Profile
Dave - have you ever paddled with Conn Yak? If this photo was taken at Connectoicut's Rocky Neck State Park, my guess is this gent is a member of Conn Yak. Total extreme sea-kayakers. As the old Saturday Night Live spot asked "Quien es mas macho?" this guy
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csmcg
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Response Posted - 01/10/2015 :  00:24:41  Show Profile
He was smiling...hours before, and now it is frozen in place.
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islander
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Response Posted - 01/10/2015 :  08:05:29  Show Profile
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If this photo was taken at Connectoicut's Rocky Neck State Park,

The snowman on the beach was taken at Rocky Neck, Google it. I just threw in the frozen kayaker to emphasize the polar conditions that Ray was showing. Don't know where that was taken. Personally I think the frozen face guys nuts!
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 01/10/2015 :  09:00:59  Show Profile
But don't laugh... All winter long we hear about frostbiter sailing regattas. The weather doesn't stop folks from enjoying watersports - provided you're dressed and prepped for it.
The frstbiting I'd like to be doing takes place this and next week in and around Key West!
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 01/10/2015 :  11:17:08  Show Profile
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But don't laugh... All winter long we hear about frostbiter sailing regattas. The weather doesn't stop folks from enjoying watersports - provided you're dressed and prepped for it...
...like the guy in NJ this past week who went duck hunting in his canoe, on the evening of the big blow (gale warnings, 30-40 kts, temp plummeting to zero) and ended up not being able to paddle back against the wind and through the ice. Luckily, he had a cell phone, called home, and they called 911. I think the USCG picked him up. Nearly a Darwin Award candidate.
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OJ
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Response Posted - 01/12/2015 :  13:10:48  Show Profile
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...like the guy in NJ this past week who went duck hunting in his canoe, on the evening of the big blow (gale warnings, 30-40 kts, temp plummeting to zero) and ended up not being able to paddle back against the wind and through the ice. Luckily, he had a cell phone, called home, and they called 911. I think the USCG picked him up. Nearly a Darwin Award candidate.


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glivs
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Response Posted - 01/12/2015 :  18:06:01  Show Profile
This years [url="http://www.quebecicecanoeing.com/"]winter carnival[/url] is coming up.....any takers?
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 01/16/2015 :  20:52:03  Show Profile
So correct me if I am wrong, but people pay good money to risk life and limb out in a mashup of ice-floes on the St Lawrence in a stinkin' plastic canoe that will buckle like tin foil if caught between two chunks of ice? No wonder they find "floaters" every spring up in the Great White North! Dumbasses!
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 01/17/2015 :  14:27:04  Show Profile
It's 57 and sunny today, but I'm here at home doing sailing club dues renewal bookkeeping and helping the boss clean up for entertaining our Sunday School class next week. Oh well.
I've also got some continuing ed to do next week to help get ready for tax season.
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bigelowp
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Response Posted - 01/17/2015 :  16:06:53  Show Profile
Sailing? Now? Made me think "I wish . . . . ." but, regrettably when I last checked Limerick was shrink wrapped, on the hard and it was 15 degrees! Guess I gotta wait a while!
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