"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:52:21 GMT, "Thomas, Spring Point Light"
wrote:

Now,, if the god's of sailing would stop with the rain, fog, .. etc...
maybe
you can
enjoy some coastal sailing in Maine.

Oh stop, fog *is* one of the attractions.

I kid you not.

Some of my most vivid memories of cruising Maine are suddenly being
enveloped by a fog bank, feeling your way along for a while, only to
have the mists partially lift to discover that there is a classic
wooden boat sailing near you among the rocky little islands and pine
trees. There's really nothing quite like it in my experience.


Yo.. Wayne.. enveloped in a fog bank? Try being enveloped for two months,
the whole summer, by fog, rain, crap.. Nothing is lifting up here,, and the
classic
wooden boats? They are in the harbor, waiting for that mist which has been
here
since June 2 to clear.

The economy is in a shambles. The lobster boat guys are going broke, no
tourists to
buy the lobsters, and with the high fuel prices added on ..

Then just think about the marinas. First the motor boat crowd is parking
the boats, then
2 months of crap weather so even the sailors aren't going out.. the hotels
are not selling
out, the restaurants are empty, the roads are clear, ....

Yaa tell me all about the "really nothing like it" experience..