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Captain B
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Initially Posted - 02/25/2004 : 07:54:59

The weather must be improving because this forum is really slowing down. Time to do it and quit talking about it. Hoisting the main!
Cheers,

Captain B

'85 C25 #4854 FK/SR/Traditional
Valparaiso "Boggy Bayou", Florida

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 02/25/2004 : 08:28:00

Heck!...I've had Spring Fever since December!

May 1st is my projected splash date, but if the marina opens early I may put in a week or two early.

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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 02/25/2004 : 08:33:16

My sailing club, Catalina 22 Fleet 4, holds it's first Folsom Lake cruise of the year in 3 weeks, and I can't wait. Then two weeks after that is the Camellia Cup Regatta, the "big event" of the year for Folsom Lake Yacht Club. Hope we have some nice weather!

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Scotd
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Response Posted - 02/25/2004 : 09:14:07

We can't talk about spring for a couple of months yet, to much hard water. We don't have to get the Ice houses off the lake til the end of March.

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Todd Frye
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Response Posted - 02/25/2004 : 13:27:44

We've had two obstacles to "putting in" in Utah Lake. Not enough water to float a boat, and like Scotd, the water is still hard, due to a cold winter...a long month of 30 plus days below freezing. The state has been dredging along the jetty, so I'm thinking we can make it out of the harbor as soon as the ice melts. Our snow pack is 115% of normal so all good things seem to be in place. Come on Spring! Todd Frye.

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Ed Montague
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Response Posted - 02/25/2004 : 16:35:02

Can't help but tease you folks, this is the almond tree in my back yard. Photo taken yesterday evening. The Central Valley of California is starting the blooming season for almonds, peaches, cherries, apricots, etc. You would not know that it is spring by looking out the window right now. Huge storm blowing through off of the Pacific today and tonight. We need dry and warm weather for the bee's to get to work. But I love the water that is getting stored in the Sierra's in the form of snow.

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 02/25/2004 : 18:28:42

right now its sunny and warm with light breezes. Tomorrow 15 foot seas, 4 inches of rain and winds to 40.....

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reuben
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Response Posted - 02/25/2004 : 18:42:39

Man, it's nice to see something in blossom.

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cathluk
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Response Posted - 02/26/2004 : 15:38:52

Its 38 here today, but I have daffodils peeking up through the mulch already. Not long 'till spring now! (goal is to have outboard back on & sails on 1st weekend in April).

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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 02/26/2004 : 16:44:51

Spring fever has really been crippling this week. Bright sunny days, temp in the low to mid 30's and a chance to get the top down.

See how bad it is? Still lots of snow, but its melting and the water is still hard. Would a water softener help?

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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 02/26/2004 : 16:46:18

Forget, so . . ..

PS. Did a funeral today, and on the way to cemetary part of the Hudson was soft water. Very strange. Hard most of the way, a one mile section of soft water and then hard again. Mmmmmm?

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John V.
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Response Posted - 02/27/2004 : 08:21:27

Still working under the tarps, as weather is still cold at night in the mid 20's. You guys in the warm climes have pity on us northerners
and don't get too poetic about the great spring weather. We will be cold for another 3-4 weeks as March in Ohio is mostly unpredictable.

As for me, I have been in the shop making a few more access doors for storage lockers. One for the vee berth and one for the starboard locker opposite the dinette. I will probably get the hand rails and other on deck teak varnished under the tarp before sending Nin Bimash to the canvas guy to have the bimini re worked. I may be in Lake Erie by the end of April, then pull her for the trek to Grand Portage MN where we will sail out to Isle Royal for a week. Then back to Neebish Island by truck and into the north channel for the rest of the summer. I'll be back at Harbor North in Huron OH for fall sailing.

All joking aside, I love to read posts like "great Christmas eve sail"
or some other event or adventure that takes place during our "off season" it keeps the sailing flame alive. I spend a lot of time with charts on my lap mind sailing and keying in GPS coordinates.

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Charlie Vick
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Response Posted - 02/27/2004 : 12:59:57

Today clear with a high of 63
winds SSE at 15 mph
Saturday partly cloudy high 63
winds SSE at 18 mph
Sunday cloudy high 59
Winds SE at 20 mph

I'll be on the lake and sailing by 4:30 this afternoon.
Life is good!

CVick
PanaceaII '81 C25 #2439 SRSK
Fort Smith, AR

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OJ
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Response Posted - 02/27/2004 : 13:21:29

Instead of Spring Fever this thread should be titled Spring Tease . . .

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Sea Trac
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Response Posted - 02/27/2004 : 13:22:53

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Charlie Vick
 I'll be on the lake and sailing by 4:30 this afternoon.
Life is good!

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

DAGNABIT (to borrow a phrase), don't you ever have to WORK on that boat, Charlie? I'm missing out on all these great winter sailing days with my rudder and tiller laid up in the garage and my mainsail laid up (or out, as the case may be) in the living room. Still have a mainsail cover and curtains to cut and sew, too. Oh, yeah, and a traveller car that's waiting on a second round of replacement sheaves so it can be put back together. I WANNA GO SAILING...NOW.

How's that for a virtual whine, eh?

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Charlie Vick
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Response Posted - 02/27/2004 : 14:24:34

"DAGNABIT (to borrow a phrase), don't you ever have to WORK on that boat, Charlie? I'm missing out on all these great winter sailing days with my rudder and tiller laid up in the garage and my mainsail laid up (or out, as the case may be) in the living room. Still have a mainsail cover and curtains to cut and sew, too. Oh, yeah, and a traveller car that's waiting on a second round of replacement sheaves so it can be put back together. I WANNA GO SAILING...NOW."

I save that for the days I can't sail, no wind or too much wind.
One thing I have found is the simpler things are the easier they are to maintain. I figure the more bells and whistles you put on a boat the more you have to maintain and the greater the chance of failure of one or more of those systems. Frank Bulter designed us a great sailboat and I'm not one to mess with his design. One of our product lines at my company is a ticketing system we call KIS (Keep It Simple) and the older I get the more I've come to live my life this same way. Don't get me wrong I still have to keep up with all the regular maintainence required for a C25 but its something I do every time I go to the boat instead of saving it all up to do at once.
Remember "God doesn't subtract from your time on earth the time spent sailing" but I'm not sure that holds true for the time spent working on your sailboat.

CVick
PanaceaII '81 C25 #2439 SRSK
Fort Smith, AR

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Ed Montague
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Response Posted - 02/27/2004 : 15:34:01

Charlie,

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">"God doesn't subtract from your time on earth the time spent sailing"<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

I love the thought, true or not.

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Charlie Vick
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Response Posted - 02/27/2004 : 15:48:19

Its painted on a piece of wood underneath the painting of a sailboat hanging on our dock. Been there as long as I can remember. Unfortunately no author.

CVick
PanaceaII '81 C25 #2439 SRSK
Fort Smith, AR

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 02/28/2004 : 16:01:47

Flew over Erie yesterday....western end is starting to break up. If you had a map you could sail from Sandusky to Detroit between the ice cubes. Eeastern end still solid......

Oscar
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Dave Bristle
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Djibouti
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Response Posted - 02/29/2004 : 13:29:44

Just back from a week in Steamboat Springs, Colorado... I don't get all the whining and gloating... Winter up here is skiing, sledding, snowshoeing through a silent woods, fires in the fireplace, snow days for the kids, actually using the 4-wheel drive everybody's buying, boat projects in the basement (and living room, apparently), and really looking forward to the changeover to sailing season! 5 months of not having to mow the lawn or tend to the garden... The change is coming, and I'm ready. That's the way I like it!

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svmoxie
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Response Posted - 02/29/2004 : 17:45:50

The view from my desk at home Friday morning...

"Have you seen Spring?"

Today it is sunny and in the mid fifties with no snow in sight!

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 02/29/2004 : 18:38:02

Yes Dave - but all those activities involve close contact with that horrible, cold, white stuff!

I'm more than happy to have you indulge in it up there and leave us to our relative warmth (and sailing

)
Derek

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