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Too much flat calm weather lately.
I've sailed above the Arctic Circle and below the Equator. I can handle both
extremes. I don't concern myself with other predator species other than to afford them mutual respect. The insects up North are twice as large, 4 times as voracious and 8 times more plentiful in the summer than their tiny and far less annoying Southern cousins. Hull fouling is not restricted to warm waters... neither is corrosion in salt water. Lake sailing has it's merits and restrictions. Tides are not a difficulty... where I am the average is 5 to 7 feet and in the Bay of Fundy they are 45 feet. Although I can enjoy where I sail now... I revel in the heat, sun and warm waters of the tropics. CM "katysails" wrote in message Having been both places and sailed both places, I will say this: If one could get rid of winter and keep the sailing weather we have may through October to the whole year, then that would be the perfect sailing climate. The sub-tropics are nice to visit, but the cloying, unrelenting heat get to you after a while and the bug factor can't be ignored. And then, if we had the luxury of a 12 month season here, we would have perfection...no unsightly barnacles eating away at our hulls, no corrosive salt wearing out sails and canvas...no predatory fish looking for a meal to jump off the boat any moment...and we don't have to fight tide tables up here, so don't have to schedule our comings and goings around them. (Don't you have horribly huge tides up there in N.S.?) September and October sailing are always the best on Lake Michigan. The days are warm and the nights are cool. You can always put on another layer if you're not the hearty type. |
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