Harry Krause wrote:
On 12/6/2006 9:35 AM, Don White wrote:

Harry Krause wrote:

On 12/6/2006 8:09 AM, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:32:32 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

On 12/6/2006 6:44 AM, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:39:19 -0500, "ACP" wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 5 Dec 2006 17:31:29 -0800, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

http://www.uscgboating.org/waypoints...er_boating.htm

What is this "winter" boating you speak of?

Is it this:

http://tinyurl.com/ydusks

Ok, that I agree is neat. Back in the day, I used to have a DN
that I
sailed at Webster Lake. It's a lot of fun.

or maybe this:

http://tinyurl.com/ynypas

That's more my concept of "winter" boating. :)

My concept of winter boating where I grew up was the New York Boat
Show.
About all we did with "outside water" was ice skate on it, from
November to March.


Or that. :)

Although I never got the hang of ice skating for some reason. I could
"skate" as in go in one direction, but it was a wobbly kind of thing -
just could never quite get it.

Same with snow skiing - never could quite get the hang of it. Just
not coordinated enough I guess. I do wish they had had snow boards in
my day - I think I could have handled that fine.



I spent my first winter as a skater playing goalie in our pickup
hockey games. That way, I didn't have to skate too much. It was
traditional that the worst skater played goalie.



I used to organize a pick-up type of hockey league at work. Sometimes
we played amoung ourselves, and other times we would play other
companies to split the ice rental. I still have the 'Mother Corp'
hockey jersey somewhere.
One of my treasures positions back in the 60s was a pair of CCM Tacks
worn by Bobby Hull in a commercial. Trouble was, the skates were only
size 8.5 so I had to buy an early model of Lange moulded boot type
skates. Those are still in the basement collecting dust.
My hockey position was defenceman because I was slow skating and
couldn't turn to the right as well as I turned to the left.
When we were kids we grew up playing 'ground hockey all
fall/winter/spring. Those were the days!



Our pickup hockey games were played on a little lake north of Westville,
a suburb of New Haven. There were no rules there. The city's outdoor
skating rinks did not allow pickup hockey games, and the indoor old New
Haven Arena did not allow anything other than skating in a big circle to
music.

I was never good enough a skater to even try out for our high school's
varsity hockey team. Those guys could skate!

We didn't allow "lifting" in our pickup hockey games. No one wanted to
loose teeth or an eye. If you slammed the puck and it hit someone above
the legs, the opposing team got a point.


In our work games, we didn't allow slapshots or supposedly body
checking... but any kind of wrist shot was ok.
I was only injured once when I hit knee on knee with a guy on my own
team. He was a bit of a Tasmanian Devil and all over the place. I saw
him coming but couldn't avoid him and that had me limping for a week or so.
Lake/pond hockey wasn't as common here on the coast as most of the
country. The weather is too flakey (numerous freezes & thaws) thanks to
the influence of the Atlantic Ocean.