Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 26 Feb 2006 08:51:06 -0800, wrote:
Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:12:35 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:
BTW, why didn't you move to the west coast and buy that trawler?
Truth is that once you are south of Seattle, there are a lot more
cruising opportunities on the east coast. And you don't need foul
weather gear, long underwear and a cabin heater to enjoy them.
Fair comment, if one overlooks the minor technicality that some of the
prettiest parts of Puget Sound are south of Seattle.
Our sheltered "inland" waters, and "Inside Passage" waters that run in
an almost uninterrupted 1,300 mile link from Olympia, Washinton to
Skagway Alaska are, IMO, the finest cruising waters in the world unless
baking up a good case of melanoma is high on the list of ones'
proiorities. Yes, you will find days in June, July, and August where a
little cabin heat will be welcome just about sunrise.
The other difference may be that for most Pacific NW waters, miles and
miles of pristine wilderness shoreline will be ocassionally interrupted
by a small patch of "civilization". My limited observations lead me to
suspect that the reverse is more commonly true on the hot, humid, side
of the continent. :-)
I would much rather be sunburned than suffer a case of mold.
Neptune has smiled on Pacific NW boaters. During the summer months, our
mold dries out just a bit and turns a beautiful nut brown that any
unsuspecting non-native might actually mistake for a real suntan.
What did the Seattlite say to the Pillsbury
Doughboy?..................."Nice tan!!"
However, we when do get our annual sunny weekend we don't have Clue One
about how to properly react and you will see a high percentage of the
population with second degree sunburns at work come Monday morning. I
have heard a rumor that hospital emergency rooms are overwhelmed with
people frightened about the mysterious red "rash" that is covering the
bodies of entire families.
Did you know that one of the hottest markets for sunglasses is in the
Pacific NW? Seriously, true. I have two theories about this; the first
being that if our normal and gorgeous cloud cover ever becomes
defective enough to let a suggestion of sunlight actually beam through-
panicked NW'ers run out and make frantic purchases of sunglasses so
that they will have every possible defense at hand in case of aned
actual "solar emergency." The second theory is that the number of days
when sunglasses would be useful are so few and far between that few
people remember where they stored their still-new sunglasses after the
one day of "solar emergency" they wore them last year.