"Thomas, Spring Point Light" wrote in
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Still snowing .. and snowing and snowing ..

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"Larry" wrote in message
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Ahead of the big front, here in Charleston, it's beautifully warm,
cloudy and the wind varies between 20 knots and 35 knots all day!

You can tell it's not raceday at this windspeed....(c;

WE SHOULD BE SAILIN'!





76F, 35 knots gusting to 45 now, sun finally came out but front barreling
in at a terrific speed like last week. I got the whole house open. The
flowers at Magnolia Gardens & Plantation across the river are blooming and
it's blowing in the windows smellin' up the whole place!

http://www.magnoliaplantation.com/

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Thomas, Spring Point Light" wrote in
news:6HcEj.14111$4q3.6515@trndny02:

Still snowing .. and snowing and snowing ..

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"Larry" wrote in message
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Ahead of the big front, here in Charleston, it's beautifully warm,
cloudy and the wind varies between 20 knots and 35 knots all day!

You can tell it's not raceday at this windspeed....(c;

WE SHOULD BE SAILIN'!





76F, 35 knots gusting to 45 now, sun finally came out but front barreling
in at a terrific speed like last week. I got the whole house open. The
flowers at Magnolia Gardens & Plantation across the river are blooming and
it's blowing in the windows smellin' up the whole place!

http://www.magnoliaplantation.com/


Have to admit... your town is one if the places down there I'd like to
visit.
I suppose spring/fall is the best time for someone not used to a lot of heat
& hummidity.

"Don White" wrote in
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Have to admit... your town is one if the places down there I'd like to
visit.
I suppose spring/fall is the best time for someone not used to a lot
of heat & hummidity.



It's just like Northern Florida, weatherwise. We just have more than a
ditch to sail and go boating in. You can anchor out in some creek in
Charleston and hardly see another soul all weekend. Come on down. Plenty
of room for everyone.

Bring some of those recently-more-valuable Canadian Dollars with ya...(c;

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in
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Have to admit... your town is one if the places down there I'd like to
visit.
I suppose spring/fall is the best time for someone not used to a lot
of heat & hummidity.



It's just like Northern Florida, weatherwise. We just have more than a
ditch to sail and go boating in. You can anchor out in some creek in
Charleston and hardly see another soul all weekend. Come on down. Plenty
of room for everyone.

Bring some of those recently-more-valuable Canadian Dollars with ya...(c;



I think our loonie slipped a couple cents today, but that's alright. I have
a $50.00 US refund cheque from Garmin to deposit.

"Don White" wrote in
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I think our loonie slipped a couple cents today, but that's alright.
I have a $50.00 US refund cheque from Garmin to deposit.


I have a Loonie and a Twonie, (that hasn't fallen apart), in my pocket from
some Canadian friends who came to visit. Just like our "golden" dollars,
made out of pot metal...(c;

Gold slipped hard today and I just looked and it was "only" $920/oz in Hong
Kong, tonight! I'd feel bad if I paid $1050/oz for it a couple of days
ago. Watch the dollars, yours and ours, slip into uselessness on:

http://kitco.com/images/live/gold.gif

Update the GIF picture continuously as it changes with every transaction in
realtime.....delayed, of course, so the elite get theirs first.

The GIF gives you the data...without all the spam it usually comes loaded
with, saving bandwidth on the boat wifi.

Larry wrote:
76F, 35 knots gusting to 45 now,

No racing on account of wind? What kind of pussies you got running the
sailing clubs down there?

DSK

wrote in message
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Larry wrote:
76F, 35 knots gusting to 45 now,

No racing on account of wind? What kind of pussies you got running the
sailing clubs down there?

DSK


Maybe their sailing AC boats... there's an upper-wind limit. 35 kts out here
is on the high end of normal sailing wind, but not a show-stopper. I can
also safely say that if we had 75 deg and 35 kts, the bay would turn into
pinball game with all manner of sailboat trying to experience it. LOL

Fortunately, when the wind picks up, the temp drops, and we have to put
another layer under the foulies. This discourages enough people to make the
traffic reasonable.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

wrote in news:6a8ce5c1-4e50-4952-9c28-
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No racing on account of wind? What kind of pussies you got running the
sailing clubs down there?



Oh, they race with no wind at all! I'm just jealous because on those days
we can't get the Amel beastie over the damned start line, to speak nothing
of how to get her around the bouys....(c;

The real sailboats go flying off, leaving us to ourselves, then come
ZOOMING by, pointing and laughing, as they cross the finish line from
behind us. That doesn't bother us much because we're usually working on
our 3rd coffee pot of Bloody Marys by then...(c;

My begging to leave just a FEW of the toolboxes on the dock go
unanswered....just enough so you can see the top edge of the antifouling
paint underwater....

"Do we REALLY need all 200 gallons of fresh water just to hose down a few
glasses if we run out?" "We're stocked to make BERMUDA without running out
of anything!"

....."Pass me that nice cheeze, will ya? I got crackers left and nothing to
go on them, thanks."

With our handicap, if we make it over the finish line after the committee
has packed up and sees us from the bar....we might place 3rd! They always
laugh holding their stomachs when someone runs out on the yacht club deck
and fires the finishing gun for us!

Larry wrote:


Oh, they race with no wind at all! I'm just jealous because on those days
we can't get the Amel beastie over the damned start line, to speak nothing
of how to get her around the bouys....(c;

The real sailboats go flying off, leaving us to ourselves, then come
ZOOMING by, pointing and laughing, as they cross the finish line from
behind us. That doesn't bother us much because we're usually working on
our 3rd coffee pot of Bloody Marys by then...(c;

My begging to leave just a FEW of the toolboxes on the dock go
unanswered....just enough so you can see the top edge of the antifouling
paint underwater....

"Do we REALLY need all 200 gallons of fresh water just to hose down a few
glasses if we run out?" "We're stocked to make BERMUDA without running out
of anything!"

...."Pass me that nice cheeze, will ya? I got crackers left and nothing to
go on them, thanks."

With our handicap, if we make it over the finish line after the committee
has packed up and sees us from the bar....we might place 3rd! They always
laugh holding their stomachs when someone runs out on the yacht club deck
and fires the finishing gun for us!



With OUR handicap they "real" racers would just smile at us on the start
line. You could almost hear them thinking, "Well, they're trying".

Then they would get home and log onto the web site for scoring and find
out we beat them after they left the lake.

Next race they weren't near as nice to us! hheehehehehehe!

Richard

cavelamb himself wrote in news:13u3oo2clb28rc0
@corp.supernews.com:

Then they would get home and log onto the web site for scoring and find
out we beat them after they left the lake.

Next race they weren't near as nice to us! hheehehehehehe!



We raced in the Gulfstreamer from Ponce Inlet, FL to Charleston offshore.
After we got becalmed 90 miles S of Charleston like everyone else, the
onboard joke was if we arrived by next Friday, with our handicap, we may be
first......by next week.....(c;

It was so calm the ocean surface looked like the surface of a glass of
water on a tabletop. I've never seen offshore THAT flat! The eager
beavers aboard got too antsy and wanted to get home by Monday, so Cap'n
Geoffrey cranked the diesel and we dropped out and headed for shore. I
told him I had to be home by November, then went to bed for a little nap.
The damned diesel woke me up....