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Derek Crawford
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Initially Posted - 03/08/2005 : 17:02:22

For all you poor souls confined to the hard, cheer up! Spring is on its way! Down here the redbud trees are in bloom, the mesquites are in full leaf (means no more frosts) and the grass is green again!
Derek

Derek Crawford
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Previous owner of "This Side UP"
1981 C-25 TR/FK #2262 Used to have an '89 C22 #9483, "Downsized"
San Antonio, Texas

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existentialsailor
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Response Posted - 03/08/2005 : 18:15:30

Hmmm, expecting 10 more inches of snow tonight. minus 5 temperature and wind gusts up to 50 mph. Please excuse me if I seem a bit sceptical :)

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 03/08/2005 : 19:24:22

About once a week it gets up into the 50-60s for a day or two, and then it drops back down to the teens and snows again. The cold weather is hanging on a bit longer than usual, but I have a feeling it's going to be a great summer!

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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 03/08/2005 : 20:03:52

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TRogers
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Response Posted - 03/08/2005 : 23:08:55

And the real bummer is that the ice scraper is in the car and the door won't open!

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ChrisDara
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Response Posted - 03/10/2005 : 19:37:05

Holy cow!

How does that even happen? Where's that pic from?

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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 03/10/2005 : 19:57:42

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by ChrisDara
 Holy cow!

How does that even happen? Where's that pic from?
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'could have been Wichita last month.

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Happy D
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Response Posted - 03/10/2005 : 20:14:10

I have been out of town with work for the past month. My family has been stuck in Michigan while I have been in Louisiana. The weather down here has been beautiful.

As it turns out, the guy that works nights at the hotel desk, has access to a C25 which we might take out this Sunday. How lucky is that? I can't wait. I'll be back in the Michigan snow too soon.

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Charlie Vick
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Response Posted - 03/10/2005 : 21:02:27

I sympathize for those of you up north.
I don't know what it feels like to not be able to use your sailboat any time you want.

"Hmmm, expecting 10 more inches of snow tonight. minus 5 temperature and wind gusts up to 50 mph. Please excuse me if I seem a bit sceptical :)"

You could always move south.

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existentialsailor
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Response Posted - 03/10/2005 : 22:02:22

Right you are Charlie and my darlin' daughter in Tampa might just convince me to head on down. Certainly there is some nice sailing to be done there.

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John V.
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Response Posted - 03/10/2005 : 22:17:36

I was hoping for more time to get some boat work done nxt week but high winds over the past few days has torn the cover off Nin Bimash. I noticed it this evening as I headed out for a meeting at school. Oh and the snow was coming down hard and now that the meeting is over and principal says she may call a snow day tomorow, we have about 4 inches on the ground. (and the boat) I was hoping to be done with Ski patrol by this weekend but the resort where I work has announced that we will stay open for another week.

I have been looking forward to warmer weather but I guess it will have to wait. I am making progress on Gracie's boat, making parts and doing woodwork in the heated workshop. I don't think we will get her back in the water this season.

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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 03/11/2005 : 00:24:01

Not sure where this is, but here's another one of the same incident.

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John V.
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Response Posted - 03/11/2005 : 06:57:17

Looks like more potos from that Geneva wind storm. The ice is from the waves crashing on the breakwater. Note the tops of the trees.
I think this series also showed a lot of damaged and sunken sailboats at a nearby marina.

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cathluk
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Response Posted - 03/11/2005 : 15:57:24

Still in the 40s here (VA), but I have dafodills & crocuses blooming so spring is on its way. Now if we would only have a few warm weekend days I could get some work done on my boat. All the nice days have been on weekdays so far.

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Midpoint
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Response Posted - 03/11/2005 : 17:19:22

Guess where I will be this weekend... high of 75 10 to 17 knt winds wooohooooooo

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Charlie Vick
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Response Posted - 03/11/2005 : 19:47:50

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Midpoint
 Guess where I will be this weekend... high of 75 10 to 17 knt winds wooohooooooo

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That forecast sounds just like northeast Oklahoma!
Guess where I'll be this weekend too!

I promise I'll hoist one tomorrow night for all of you on the hard up north!
It's the least I can do.

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aeckhart
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Response Posted - 03/12/2005 : 09:13:49

Crap, we just had 8 inches of snow yesterday and expecting another 6 to 8 today and tomorrow. Spring will be late this year. With the possible exception of the Catalina 25, the greatest invention in he last 50 years has got to be the snowblower.

Al
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Doug
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Response Posted - 03/12/2005 : 11:05:59

Every now and then the company offers me a promotion- If I'd be willing to move East. Then I look at pictures or weather reports, and decide their just not offering enough money.
It's sunny, should be in the 60s today. Taking the kids for a bike ride, then tomorrow I'll start putting the windows back in the boat. Next weekend will be our first cruise of the year.

All this great weather in the PAC NW has a price though. None of the ski areas are open. No snow in the mountains, and we're already in a drought emergency. Gov has asked for National Guard to come back from Iraq to prepare to fight forest fires. This may be a long and hot fire season.

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Doug
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Response Posted - 03/12/2005 : 11:09:21

Oh, and another semi-weather issue locally: Had to laugh when I was driving home the other day as the traffic guy on the radio went through the list of problems: Slow on 405. Accident on I-5 North, Huge cloud of steam and volcanic ash near I-5 North and South bound...

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Charlie Vick
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Response Posted - 03/12/2005 : 16:08:51

Well we didn't get to go sailing today. Woke up this morning to my son coughing his head off so I took him to the clinic to find out he has early stages of pneumonia so no sailing this weekend.
Right now its 80 and I just heard the neighborhood ice cream truck creepng down the road.
The red buds are blooming and the grass is greening so northerners take heart, spring is in the air!

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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 03/12/2005 : 18:46:26

Today was near 80, sunny, nice breeze in the morning. I took the new owner of Wind Point for his shakedown cruise and as soon as we got out of the marina the wind just vanished. Poking along at 1 to 2 knots with barely a flutter from the sails. After we motored back in and buttoned up the boat the wind picked back up again. Oh well, timing is everything.

Steve

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 03/12/2005 : 19:42:19

Don't feel sorry for this northerner because I for one welcome, rather need, time on the hard to provide balance in my life.

Because of my passion (more like obsession) for sailing, during the season I find it extremely difficult to turn my attention to other things. This means that my understanding wife and daughters (14 and 10), who don’t exactly share the same enthusiasm for sailing that I do, cut me a little slack during the season and allow me to do my thing. Every now and again they remind me that there are other things to do on the weekend besides sailing, but I have a hard time thinking of one of the them. It appears that instead of sitting in a cockpit with the rail in the water, some people would rather; be with friends, go to the mall, see a movie, visit relatives, putz around in the garden, go out to dinner, go to band camp, attend sporting events, work around the house, or simply vege at home after a particularly tough week…go figure! Anyway, with the boat on the hard, I can do those things with the family that I didn’t do over the season and accomplish those tasks around the house that were put off to go sailing.

Another reason time on the hard is a blessing in disguise, is maintenance. Without being forced to remove ones boat from the water, one might put off needed inspections and minor/major repairs. Every off season, my boat gets a going over, a refreshed bottom, new equipment, a good wash and wax, teak touch ups, and whatever else that needs to be done while on the hard because once it’s in the water, I don’t do anything that takes away from my sailing time. If I had my boat in the water year round, I don’t think I’d be as diligent keeping up the boat.

Lastly, I don’t know if I could sustain my passion for sailing if I did it year round. Currently, with the sailing season just 6 months long, I don’t waste a single day which means in the spring I come out of the gate quick and run hard until the finish line in the fall. If I sailed year round, I fear that boredom might set in just like if one ate their favorite dish morning, noon, and night or watched their your favorite movie over and over. Heck, I see that now with other sailors who start out fast in spring only to run out of gas midway through the summer.

Anyway, splash day is just a month or so away and this horse is getting restless and chomping at the bit!

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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 03/12/2005 : 20:06:44

Okay Don, as long as you believe it.

Steve

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ronrryan
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Response Posted - 03/12/2005 : 20:12:46

When Pat and I lived in New York, on the Atlantic side of Long Island, we cruised starting in April/May through October. Sometimes if weather was really bad, wrapped it up in early October, if specially nice, reached November. Then it was time to overhaul gear for deerseason upstate, then downstate. Then it was Holidays, and then inside work in the shop preparing gear for cruising. To everything there is a season. Now in Florida, even after almost fifteen years, it never seems right not to have a fire going and something to varnish in the shop. God bless all, ron srsk Orion SW FL (70's today, scrubbed boat down for visitors from North to go out tomorrow if they want to)

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andy
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Response Posted - 03/13/2005 : 14:14:03

Don
We're in the same situation with the short season. I think I actually appreciate my sailing experience more because of the situation. I don't miss a weekend when the boat's afloat. Nobody I know expects to see me in town during weekend summers.

That's not to say that I don't miss a yearly ritural of sailing on New Years day in tee shirt and shorts when I lived in southern California.

Derek and Steve....come to think of it, that first 'graf is a rationalizattion. I'm jealous of both of you! ARRRRRRG!!!

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bear
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Response Posted - 03/16/2005 : 19:14:59

Those pictures posted earlier were from Geneva N.Y. which is located in central New York.

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