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Too much flat calm weather lately.
Dear Pitiful Group,
The Bay looks like a mirror again this morning as it was yesterday and the day before and the day before that. It looks like southern Florida is doomed to a summer of doldrums this year. Even the tropical depressions fall apart as they head this way. It's disgusting! The only good thing is these periods of light wind and no wind tend to be evened out by periods of moderate to heavy winds. I'm hoping for some good reliable winds this fall as I'm weighing for another extended cruise to the Bahamas at the end of hurricane season (Nov). While most of you sorry losers are abandoning your boats on the hard for another long, cold winter with bouts of colds and flu, I'll be sailing the Bahamas once more enjoying the sunshine, balmy breezes, crystal water, good company (real sailors - unlike what passes for sailors in this group), excellent fare and good cheer. I've so simplified my life that I have only a dentist appointment in September (routine cleaning - my teeth are perfect like the rest of me) to occupy my time. This and I must do the paper work to renew my Master's license which involves a physical exam and a little pencil pushing. The only other chore on the list is hauling and renewing the bottom paint. No sweat. I think I'll even put off getting new working sails so I can check out a Bahamas loft or two. Sails might be reasonable over there since the labor is cheaper. There's still years of life left in my present sails in spite of what a bunch of arm- chair losers on this group say. Ah, life is good. That's enough about me for now. I don't wanna make too many of you lubbers envious or too many women salivate. Ta, S.Simon |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
SS,
What do you do while the hurricanes are a-blowin'? Scout "Simple Simon" wrote extended cruise to the Bahamas at the end of hurricane season (Nov). |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
Why write this?
Whats this really about? what do you need that drives you to post this stuff? "Simple Simon" wrote in message ... Dear Pitiful Group, The Bay looks like a mirror again this morning as it was yesterday and the day before and the day before that. It looks like southern Florida is doomed to a summer of doldrums this year. Even the tropical depressions fall apart as they head this way. It's disgusting! The only good thing is these periods of light wind and no wind tend to be evened out by periods of moderate to heavy winds. I'm hoping for some good reliable winds this fall as I'm weighing for another extended cruise to the Bahamas at the end of hurricane season (Nov). While most of you sorry losers are abandoning your boats on the hard for another long, cold winter with bouts of colds and flu, I'll be sailing the Bahamas once more enjoying the sunshine, balmy breezes, crystal water, good company (real sailors - unlike what passes for sailors in this group), excellent fare and good cheer. I've so simplified my life that I have only a dentist appointment in September (routine cleaning - my teeth are perfect like the rest of me) to occupy my time. This and I must do the paper work to renew my Master's license which involves a physical exam and a little pencil pushing. The only other chore on the list is hauling and renewing the bottom paint. No sweat. I think I'll even put off getting new working sails so I can check out a Bahamas loft or two. Sails might be reasonable over there since the labor is cheaper. There's still years of life left in my present sails in spite of what a bunch of arm- chair losers on this group say. Ah, life is good. That's enough about me for now. I don't wanna make too many of you lubbers envious or too many women salivate. Ta, S.Simon |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
Hooray, Hooray...By Ocotber that means we'll be once again Neal=3Dfree! =
And while he's been sitting down in the seweltering stink and stench of = the sub-tropic doldrums, we all up here have been sailing....We had a = very pleasant night sail alst night...wind at about 8-10 kn....we just = ambled about a bit until we returned to our mooring...stormy today with = a really bad forecast with fronts reversing... --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
Thanks TW, I must've missed that one.
I'm just wondering where the heck he could go, and quickly enough, to escape the big ones. Scout "two wheels" wrote in message ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 07:58:22 -0400, "Scout" wrote: SS, What do you do while the hurricanes are a-blowin'? Scout "Simple Simon" wrote extended cruise to the Bahamas at the end of hurricane season (Nov). I think he's mentioned before, that he just sails to where they're not a-blowing--or not as hard anyway. two wheels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE/SPBq8VGtldodrwkRAr/2AKCcOQJrqEXDRmGc9Jrs+/0xEuMASwCeOVqv eWGuZWD5R0jpUdGLECIYiqc= =ppq4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
have I mentioned my Viking roots?
Scout "Capt. Mooron" wrote in message ... 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. CM "Scout" wrote in message ... | Amen to that Katy. I love sailing in the cold weather. no bugs, no sweat, | not too many motorboats, plenty of breeze, hot meals and coffee both taste | better, sleeping is more comfortable all snuggled up in a warm sleeping bag, | etc.etc.etc. Just don't fall overboard. | Scout | | | "katysails" wrote in message | ... | Hooray, Hooray...By Ocotber that means we'll be once again Neal=free! And | while he's been sitting down in the seweltering stink and stench of the | sub-tropic doldrums, we all up here have been sailing....We had a very | pleasant night sail alst night...wind at about 8-10 kn....we just ambled | about a bit until we returned to our mooring...stormy today with a really | bad forecast with fronts reversing... | | -- | katysails | s/v Chanteuse | Kirie Elite 32 | http://katysails.tripod.com | | "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax | and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein | | |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
If you have to ask, you'll never know.
"James" wrote in message ... Why write this? Whats this really about? what do you need that drives you to post this stuff? "Simple Simon" wrote in message ... Dear Pitiful Group, The Bay looks like a mirror again this morning as it was yesterday and the day before and the day before that. It looks like southern Florida is doomed to a summer of doldrums this year. Even the tropical depressions fall apart as they head this way. It's disgusting! The only good thing is these periods of light wind and no wind tend to be evened out by periods of moderate to heavy winds. I'm hoping for some good reliable winds this fall as I'm weighing for another extended cruise to the Bahamas at the end of hurricane season (Nov). While most of you sorry losers are abandoning your boats on the hard for another long, cold winter with bouts of colds and flu, I'll be sailing the Bahamas once more enjoying the sunshine, balmy breezes, crystal water, good company (real sailors - unlike what passes for sailors in this group), excellent fare and good cheer. I've so simplified my life that I have only a dentist appointment in September (routine cleaning - my teeth are perfect like the rest of me) to occupy my time. This and I must do the paper work to renew my Master's license which involves a physical exam and a little pencil pushing. The only other chore on the list is hauling and renewing the bottom paint. No sweat. I think I'll even put off getting new working sails so I can check out a Bahamas loft or two. Sails might be reasonable over there since the labor is cheaper. There's still years of life left in my present sails in spite of what a bunch of arm- chair losers on this group say. Ah, life is good. That's enough about me for now. I don't wanna make too many of you lubbers envious or too many women salivate. Ta, S.Simon |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
.... that's obvious... most Scots had a little Viking in them back then...
weather by choice or insistence. Have I mentioned I'm Belgian? CM "Scout" wrote in message ... | have I mentioned my Viking roots? | Scout | | | "Capt. Mooron" wrote in message | ... | 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. | | CM | | "Scout" wrote in message | ... | | Amen to that Katy. I love sailing in the cold weather. no bugs, no | sweat, | | not too many motorboats, plenty of breeze, hot meals and coffee both | taste | | better, sleeping is more comfortable all snuggled up in a warm sleeping | bag, | | etc.etc.etc. Just don't fall overboard. | | Scout | | | | | | "katysails" wrote in message | | ... | | Hooray, Hooray...By Ocotber that means we'll be once again Neal=free! | And | | while he's been sitting down in the seweltering stink and stench of the | | sub-tropic doldrums, we all up here have been sailing....We had a very | | pleasant night sail alst night...wind at about 8-10 kn....we just ambled | | about a bit until we returned to our mooring...stormy today with a | really | | bad forecast with fronts reversing... | | | | -- | | katysails | | s/v Chanteuse | | Kirie Elite 32 | | http://katysails.tripod.com | | | | "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax | | and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein | | | | | | | | |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
Great grandmom said it was insistence, but she lied a lot, that's what
everyone liked about her! Belgian? No, I did not know that! Scout "Capt. Mooron" wrote in message ... ... that's obvious... most Scots had a little Viking in them back then... weather by choice or insistence. Have I mentioned I'm Belgian? CM "Scout" wrote in message ... | have I mentioned my Viking roots? | Scout | | | "Capt. Mooron" wrote in message | ... | 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. | | CM | | "Scout" wrote in message | ... | | Amen to that Katy. I love sailing in the cold weather. no bugs, no | sweat, | | not too many motorboats, plenty of breeze, hot meals and coffee both | taste | | better, sleeping is more comfortable all snuggled up in a warm sleeping | bag, | | etc.etc.etc. Just don't fall overboard. | | Scout | | | | | | "katysails" wrote in message | | ... | | Hooray, Hooray...By Ocotber that means we'll be once again Neal=free! | And | | while he's been sitting down in the seweltering stink and stench of the | | sub-tropic doldrums, we all up here have been sailing....We had a very | | pleasant night sail alst night...wind at about 8-10 kn....we just ambled | | about a bit until we returned to our mooring...stormy today with a | really | | bad forecast with fronts reversing... | | | | -- | | katysails | | s/v Chanteuse | | Kirie Elite 32 | | http://katysails.tripod.com | | | | "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax | | and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein | | | | | | | | |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
RIGHT ON! "Jonathan Ganz" wrote in message ... If you have to ask, you'll never know. "James" wrote in message ... Why write this? Whats this really about? what do you need that drives you to post this stuff? "Simple Simon" wrote in message ... Dear Pitiful Group, The Bay looks like a mirror again this morning as it was yesterday and the day before and the day before that. It looks like southern Florida is doomed to a summer of doldrums this year. Even the tropical depressions fall apart as they head this way. It's disgusting! The only good thing is these periods of light wind and no wind tend to be evened out by periods of moderate to heavy winds. I'm hoping for some good reliable winds this fall as I'm weighing for another extended cruise to the Bahamas at the end of hurricane season (Nov). While most of you sorry losers are abandoning your boats on the hard for another long, cold winter with bouts of colds and flu, I'll be sailing the Bahamas once more enjoying the sunshine, balmy breezes, crystal water, good company (real sailors - unlike what passes for sailors in this group), excellent fare and good cheer. I've so simplified my life that I have only a dentist appointment in September (routine cleaning - my teeth are perfect like the rest of me) to occupy my time. This and I must do the paper work to renew my Master's license which involves a physical exam and a little pencil pushing. The only other chore on the list is hauling and renewing the bottom paint. No sweat. I think I'll even put off getting new working sails so I can check out a Bahamas loft or two. Sails might be reasonable over there since the labor is cheaper. There's still years of life left in my present sails in spite of what a bunch of arm- chair losers on this group say. Ah, life is good. That's enough about me for now. I don't wanna make too many of you lubbers envious or too many women salivate. Ta, S.Simon |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
I doubt envy is the first thing that
springs to mind when and if you think of sailing up north. 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. --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
"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. ******************************** The above is the anatomy of a very lazy individual who demands it her way. Hey Katysails, my potential sexy soulmate, only at MacDonald's! I could be close to heaven teaching you and you could be IN heaven learning from me. S.Simon. Real sailors take it as Mother Nature dishes it out. |
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Real sailors take it as Mother Nature dishes it out. That's right, they do...And that's why so few of us Northern sailors = bitch and moan about winter when it's upon us and why all you do is = bitch and moan when the doldrums, hurricanes, etc. are upon you. And = just to inform you, I always insist on MY WAY.... --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
I love you. "katysails" wrote in message ... Real sailors take it as Mother Nature dishes it out. That's right, they do...And that's why so few of us Northern sailors bitch and moan about winter when it's upon us and why all you do is bitch and moan when the doldrums, hurricanes, etc. are upon you. And just to inform you, I always insist on MY WAY.... -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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. |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
Sorry, Mooron, have to disagree. You forgot to mention the sandflies,
the mosquitoes carrying malaria, the cockroaches big enough to rest your beer can on, the sticky heat and high humidity day after day after day with a hot bright white sun beating down and heating everything so hot that you can see the heat shimmer and get cooked from the deck alone. You forgot to mention the gallons of sunblock you need to keep from being fried. You forgot to mention the annoyance of having to run engines or gensets to keep stuff cool, and the annoying neighbours who do the same thing. The tropics are OK for a short holiday on a charter boat, preferably with aircon, but for living/cruising? Nah. Give me cool climates where you can snuggle up with someone at anchor after a busy day, and not melt down in a pool of mutual sweat, skin peeling stickily from skin...... I like cool climates. Where I live now is just about perfect from my POV. On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:25:25 -0300, "Capt. Mooron" wrote: 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. CM "Scout" wrote in message ... | Amen to that Katy. I love sailing in the cold weather. no bugs, no sweat, | not too many motorboats, plenty of breeze, hot meals and coffee both taste | better, sleeping is more comfortable all snuggled up in a warm sleeping bag, | etc.etc.etc. Just don't fall overboard. | Scout | | | "katysails" wrote in message | ... | Hooray, Hooray...By Ocotber that means we'll be once again Neal=free! And | while he's been sitting down in the seweltering stink and stench of the | sub-tropic doldrums, we all up here have been sailing....We had a very | pleasant night sail alst night...wind at about 8-10 kn....we just ambled | about a bit until we returned to our mooring...stormy today with a really | bad forecast with fronts reversing... | | -- | katysails | s/v Chanteuse | Kirie Elite 32 | http://katysails.tripod.com | | "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax | and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein | | |
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Sandflies... Bah! Tropical Mosquitos??? you have to invite them to lunch.
The ones up North land at the airport, hunt you down and consider Deet as a BBQ sauce. I'm immune to malaria since I was born a carrier. Blood thickened by a cold weather environment, thins in a few months in the tropics. The heat becomes a non issue as easily as the cold. The water though... that warm inviting tropical ocean. The absolute verdant, lush plant growth, the fruit and exotic vegetables. I'll also include the price of Rum and Beer is easily affordable. I can't find a thing wrong with the premise that formal dress is when you decide to wear flip flops. 20 years of 3 month sailing seasons and 9 month winters that drop temperatures to minus 40's bracketed by 2 days of Spring and 2 days of Autumn.... your preference for moderation falls upon deaf ears. I've engaged my fair share of mid summer sailing at 10 degrees. It's not something that wears well under extended periods. I prefer the option of a global migration as and when required. Temperate climes for Temperate people... I enjoy the extremes. Capt. Mooron "Spawned in the Hot Humid Jungles of the Congo.... Forged in the Rugged North Atlantic... and Tempered by the Cold Artic Ice" "Peter Wiley" wrote in message ... | Sorry, Mooron, have to disagree. You forgot to mention the sandflies, | the mosquitoes carrying malaria, the cockroaches big enough to rest | your beer can on, the sticky heat and high humidity day after day | after day with a hot bright white sun beating down and heating | everything so hot that you can see the heat shimmer and get cooked | from the deck alone. You forgot to mention the gallons of sunblock you | need to keep from being fried. You forgot to mention the annoyance of | having to run engines or gensets to keep stuff cool, and the annoying | neighbours who do the same thing. | | The tropics are OK for a short holiday on a charter boat, preferably | with aircon, but for living/cruising? Nah. Give me cool climates | where you can snuggle up with someone at anchor after a busy day, and | not melt down in a pool of mutual sweat, skin peeling stickily from | skin...... | | I like cool climates. Where I live now is just about perfect from my | POV. | | On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:25:25 -0300, "Capt. Mooron" | wrote: | | 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. | | CM | | "Scout" wrote in message | ... | | Amen to that Katy. I love sailing in the cold weather. no bugs, no sweat, | | not too many motorboats, plenty of breeze, hot meals and coffee both taste | | better, sleeping is more comfortable all snuggled up in a warm sleeping | bag, | | etc.etc.etc. Just don't fall overboard. | | Scout | | | | | | "katysails" wrote in message | | ... | | Hooray, Hooray...By Ocotber that means we'll be once again Neal=free! And | | while he's been sitting down in the seweltering stink and stench of the | | sub-tropic doldrums, we all up here have been sailing....We had a very | | pleasant night sail alst night...wind at about 8-10 kn....we just ambled | | about a bit until we returned to our mooring...stormy today with a really | | bad forecast with fronts reversing... | | | | -- | | katysails | | s/v Chanteuse | | Kirie Elite 32 | | http://katysails.tripod.com | | | | "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax | | and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein | | | | | | |
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I doubt you'll find your little Scottish Midge 20 degrees North of the 65th
Parallel... and you haven't encountered the Black Fly if you think your pathetic Midge is even in the running let alone a contender..... so stick that in your Bagpipe! CM "Wally" wrote in message ... | "Capt. Mooron" wrote in message news:z9d2b.61411 | | Sandflies... Bah! Tropical Mosquitos??? you have to invite them to | lunch. | The ones up North land at the airport, hunt you down and consider Deet as | a | BBQ sauce. | | Holy snack jockeys on a diet, Batman! | | Get yourself another 20deg north and try the grand daddy of them all - no | net has a mesh small enough to stop the dreaded Scottish midge, yet it can | deflesh a Highland cow inside a minute. | | | -- | Wally | I demand rigidly-defined areas of uncertainty! | www.art-gallery.myby.co.uk | | | |
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"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message news:XSd2b.61428
I doubt you'll find your little Scottish Midge 20 degrees North of the 65th Parallel... and you haven't encountered the Black Fly if you think your pathetic Midge is even in the running let alone a contender..... so stick that in your Bagpipe! My inability to do sums is irreleveant here. Even without calculating the relative masses of Midges and Black Fly, size is known to be (inversely proprtional to) everything. Anyway, bagpipes are no use - they'd just make their way up the chanter and eat you alive from the inside out. The only creature that can withstand the Midge is a fit, healthy haggis. -- Wally I demand rigidly-defined areas of uncertainty! www.art-gallery.myby.co.uk |
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Is there NO cold water in Florida!?!?!?!!? Please, someone send Neal a =
bucket of ice..... --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
So you have trouble making your boat move in light wind? Any one can make a
sailboat move in a blow, light wind is what sets good sailors apart. "Simple Simon" wrote in message ... Dear Pitiful Group, The Bay looks like a mirror again this morning as it was yesterday and the day before and the day before that. It looks like southern Florida is doomed to a summer of doldrums this year. Even the tropical depressions fall apart as they head this way. It's disgusting! The only good thing is these periods of light wind and no wind tend to be evened out by periods of moderate to heavy winds. I'm hoping for some good reliable winds this fall as I'm weighing for another extended cruise to the Bahamas at the end of hurricane season (Nov). While most of you sorry losers are abandoning your boats on the hard for another long, cold winter with bouts of colds and flu, I'll be sailing the Bahamas once more enjoying the sunshine, balmy breezes, crystal water, good company (real sailors - unlike what passes for sailors in this group), excellent fare and good cheer. I've so simplified my life that I have only a dentist appointment in September (routine cleaning - my teeth are perfect like the rest of me) to occupy my time. This and I must do the paper work to renew my Master's license which involves a physical exam and a little pencil pushing. The only other chore on the list is hauling and renewing the bottom paint. No sweat. I think I'll even put off getting new working sails so I can check out a Bahamas loft or two. Sails might be reasonable over there since the labor is cheaper. There's still years of life left in my present sails in spite of what a bunch of arm- chair losers on this group say. Ah, life is good. That's enough about me for now. I don't wanna make too many of you lubbers envious or too many women salivate. Ta, S.Simon |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
the Black Fly=20
We have those...nasty critters...if you kill one on your boat 1, 00,000 = more come to the funeral....only the funeral is yours....They are not = deterred by any kind of fly spray...only recourse is to get a bottle of = water with a lot of Palmolive dish s soap in it and spray them...weighs = them down and makes them stick to the deck where you can squash them = (usually full of somebody's blood) The Palmolive then allows you to = conveniently and quickly wash away the remains. --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
Too much flat calm weather lately.
Don't give me that BS about heat & cold :-) I've done both, including
running boundary fence and digging postholes with a crowbar & shovel in summer when the air temp is still over 42C at midnight and the sun glare is so bright that it crisps your eyeballs through sunglasses. You couldn't drink beer fast enough to keep up with the fluid loss. We used to budget on a case of beer a person a day on that job. Real beer, too, not that wussy American stuff. I think the difference is how far north/south we're talking about. Here I'm in the temperate zone, sailing is a 365 day possibility and the winters rarely get below 0C and then not for more than a day or so. It never gets really cold ( 0C is a pleasant brisk day far as I'm concerned), sandflies are around only a few months and then generally only a couple hours around dawn/dusk. Ditto mosquitoes. Long warm summers with lingering twilights. Further south the summer is too brief, but there's no land anyway except for South America and a few islands. I used to work in the tropics. Diving was wonderful, 25C water and 28C air temps in the dry season. 60m viz and wonderfully brilliant colours everywhere. Unlike Bob****, I'm not afraid of sharks etc (wary, though). I've never dived in the colder waters since doing the tropics. However, the Wet was like living in a hot wet blanket relieved only by the afternoon tropical deluges. I used to walk in the warm rain with mud splashing up my bare legs and the unpaved streets of Honiara running like rivers, on my way to the yacht club after work. That was good, but living where everything smelt of mildew for months and clothes grew fungus in front of your eyes was annoying. About the perfect condns here would be to spend the winter swanning about on the Barrier Reef and into the nearby islands, then head back south for the Wet season and escape the humidity and bugs (not to mention cyclones). For a change of pace, the Kimberley country of NW Australia is stunningly beautiful and virtually uninhabited. Out to Cocos Keeling. Most of us aren't immune to malaria, or dengue fever, or a lot of other exotic tropical diseases borne by bugs, and it's a PITA to keep up a drug regime keeping them at bay. I prefer being where the disease-carrying bugs aren't. Also a lot of the spots in the topics are full of people like Neal who can't hack a more robust climate. You don't have to freeze your butt off in NS, ya know. Once you've a few other things squared away, sail south for a year or 2. You've got the blue water cruiser for it which is more than most people (including me) here have. Plenty of interesting places to see on the way and a few odd people to drink with. You could challenge Bob**** to a race on the way south. As for enjoying the extremes - I'm off on my annual holiday real soon now :-) PDW On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:57:02 -0300, "Capt. Mooron" wrote: Sandflies... Bah! Tropical Mosquitos??? you have to invite them to lunch. The ones up North land at the airport, hunt you down and consider Deet as a BBQ sauce. I'm immune to malaria since I was born a carrier. Blood thickened by a cold weather environment, thins in a few months in the tropics. The heat becomes a non issue as easily as the cold. The water though... that warm inviting tropical ocean. The absolute verdant, lush plant growth, the fruit and exotic vegetables. I'll also include the price of Rum and Beer is easily affordable. I can't find a thing wrong with the premise that formal dress is when you decide to wear flip flops. 20 years of 3 month sailing seasons and 9 month winters that drop temperatures to minus 40's bracketed by 2 days of Spring and 2 days of Autumn.... your preference for moderation falls upon deaf ears. I've engaged my fair share of mid summer sailing at 10 degrees. It's not something that wears well under extended periods. I prefer the option of a global migration as and when required. Temperate climes for Temperate people... I enjoy the extremes. Capt. Mooron "Spawned in the Hot Humid Jungles of the Congo.... Forged in the Rugged North Atlantic... and Tempered by the Cold Artic Ice" "Peter Wiley" wrote in message ... | Sorry, Mooron, have to disagree. You forgot to mention the sandflies, | the mosquitoes carrying malaria, the cockroaches big enough to rest | your beer can on, the sticky heat and high humidity day after day | after day with a hot bright white sun beating down and heating | everything so hot that you can see the heat shimmer and get cooked | from the deck alone. You forgot to mention the gallons of sunblock you | need to keep from being fried. You forgot to mention the annoyance of | having to run engines or gensets to keep stuff cool, and the annoying | neighbours who do the same thing. | | The tropics are OK for a short holiday on a charter boat, preferably | with aircon, but for living/cruising? Nah. Give me cool climates | where you can snuggle up with someone at anchor after a busy day, and | not melt down in a pool of mutual sweat, skin peeling stickily from | skin...... | | I like cool climates. Where I live now is just about perfect from my | POV. | | On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:25:25 -0300, "Capt. Mooron" | wrote: | | 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. | | CM | | "Scout" wrote in message | ... | | Amen to that Katy. I love sailing in the cold weather. no bugs, no sweat, | | not too many motorboats, plenty of breeze, hot meals and coffee both taste | | better, sleeping is more comfortable all snuggled up in a warm sleeping | bag, | | etc.etc.etc. Just don't fall overboard. | | Scout | | | | | | "katysails" wrote in message | | ... | | Hooray, Hooray...By Ocotber that means we'll be once again Neal=free! And | | while he's been sitting down in the seweltering stink and stench of the | | sub-tropic doldrums, we all up here have been sailing....We had a very | | pleasant night sail alst night...wind at about 8-10 kn....we just ambled | | about a bit until we returned to our mooring...stormy today with a really | | bad forecast with fronts reversing... | | | | -- | | katysails | | s/v Chanteuse | | Kirie Elite 32 | | http://katysails.tripod.com | | | | "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax | | and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein | | | | | | |
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katysails wrote: Is there NO cold water in Florida!?!?!?!!? Please, someone send Neal a bucket of ice..... Dry ice? Seahag |
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Dry ice?
Seahag Who cares what the frick kind...just send it...quick.... --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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She has everything going for her. She's a babe!
"two wheels" wrote in message ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 23:22:00 -0400, "katysails" wrote: Dry ice? Seahag Who cares what the frick kind...just send it...quick.... I have no idea what you have going for you Katy. I don't think I've ever seen any pics of you posted. But as I recall, Neal's not the first asa guy to go gaga over you. Whatever magic you have, if you could bottle it, you'd be rich. :-) two wheels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE/SYVX8VGtldodrwkRAhomAKCrKZ91zEy1KHQvP2vT0+w66mkvYA CgvsQQ iBVYSobKZmL4eqx3zBJdl+M= =pjtL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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patience MC, the Vikings are taking the long route to NZ.
Scout "The_navigator©" wrote Hmmmmmm. Does that include the boyz? Capt. Mooron wrote: most Scots had a little Viking in them back then... weather by choice or insistence. |
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Whatever magic you have, if you could bottle it, you'd be rich. :-) If I breathed into some bottles and listed them on Ebay, do ya think? --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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She has everything going for her. She's a babe!
You do know that those pics Neal posted were my head on Pamela = Anderson's body? --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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Doesn't block the breeze or the stars but sure as heck keeps the nasties away. You must take a picture of ths....you get the best original boat iea of = the week...I can see Neal's boat swinging on his morring now draped in a = mosquito tent looking like the Lost Dutchman.... --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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Maybe the "pretty" ones.... then again they all wore dresses and had long
hair so in the heat of battle..... CM "The_navigator©" wrote in message ... | Hmmmmmm. Does that include the boyz? | | Cheers MC | | Capt. Mooron wrote: | most Scots had a little Viking in them back then... | weather by choice or insistence. | |
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Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 07:03:08 -0400, "katysails" wrote: Whatever magic you have, if you could bottle it, you'd be rich. :-) If I breathed into some bottles and listed them on Ebay, do ya think? No, I was thinking more along the lines of a perfume. If a fat old broad like Elizabeth Taylor can make money selling perfume, then anybody can. Maybe something that smells like Lake Michigan in Summer.... I sure don't know. two wheels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE/ShKd8VGtldodrwkRAr5/AJ0fpFwZSn+NjkeWJR/CZKdncXFC6QCg+GQH 5rVNtHRRNHvi7lUTxGmAEL0= =p7Rg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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"The Carrolls" wrote in message
... So you have trouble making your boat move in light wind? Any one can make a sailboat move in a blow, light wind is what sets good sailors apart. Hear, hear! -- Roamer www.deadbean.netfirms.com 'Happiness is a 12-knot westerly on a sunny day |
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Of course! Actually, I didn't see his pics.
"katysails" wrote in message ... She has everything going for her. She's a babe! You do know that those pics Neal posted were my head on Pamela Anderson's body? -- katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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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 ... | | "Capt. Mooron" wrote in message | ... | 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. | | CM | | 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..... | | 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 :) | | 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. | | 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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Maybe something that smells like Lake Michigan in Summer.... Somehow I don't think there's any marketability in "Eau de Alewife" --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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katysails wrote: so you're not really 90? : ) Scout No, but I am 51...some days I feel like I'm 90.... Lay off the gin;^o Seahag |
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Lay off the gin;^o
Seahag Ya know, I haven't had one gin and tonic all this summer....have had = some Mike's and some wine coolers, but I'm way far behind in alcohol = consumption...maybe I should make up for it this weekend.... --=20 katysails s/v Chanteuse Kirie Elite 32 http://katysails.tripod.com "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein |
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