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Capt. Mooron
 
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Default Too much flat calm weather lately.

I've sailed the Beaufort Sea, Hudson's Bay and British Columbia as well as
Nova Scotia.
I've also sailed the South Pacific, Caribbean and South Atlantic off Brazil.

CM

"James" wrote in message
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| "Capt. Mooron" wrote in message
| news | Crap!... to both of your sentiments regarding cold weather sailing being
| more comfortable than warm weather sailing. Nothing beats a warm
tropical
| breeze pressing canvas to glide your vessel over a turquoise blue sea
that
| is so transparent you can see the bottom at 60 feet. Unencumbered by
| excess
| clothing and free to enjoy the warmth of the sun while ice cubes crackle
| and
| hiss in your rum punch. At anchor the water invites you to swim... not
| dares
| you to enter. As the coolness of the evening approaches and you rinse
off
| the salt and sweat with a cool evening shower before retiring to the
| cockpit
| for a sundowner while enjoying the music of the steel drum band on shore
| drifting out to your mooring.... I doubt envy is the first thing that
| springs to mind when and if you think of sailing up north.
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| CM
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| One adventure is very different from another.
| Sailing the balmy smooth and welcoming waters of the world is a pleasure
| indeed... and hard to better in many respects.
| But it's not exactly a challenge.....
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| Tossed about in the north sea... anticipating That safe harbour only two
| hours away .... as the love of your life hands you hot soup (she made soup
| after doing the nav .....she's a gem
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| Goasting nevously through icebergs as the very slowly setting sun sends
| shards of crisp light through the clouds to dance on the peaks of the very
| ice that could be so deadly......Thank God that so few people brave the
cold
| .. last thing this place needs is a benetau full of jerks scattering
| MacDonalds wrappers about.
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| And at such times as these(including the balmy tropics... Envy has no
| place..... You find yourself too busy being where you are now ...to care
who
| else is doing what somewhere else!
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