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Man, we should be SAILIN'!
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'! |
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Man, we should be SAILIN'!
Still snowing .. and snowing and snowing ..
== "Larry" wrote in message ... 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'! |
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Man, we should be SAILIN'!
"Thomas, Spring Point Light" wrote in
news:6HcEj.14111$4q3.6515@trndny02: Still snowing .. and snowing and snowing .. == "Larry" wrote in message ... 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/ |
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Man, we should be SAILIN'!
"Larry" wrote in message ... "Thomas, Spring Point Light" wrote in news:6HcEj.14111$4q3.6515@trndny02: Still snowing .. and snowing and snowing .. == "Larry" wrote in message ... 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. |
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Man, we should be SAILIN'!
"Don White" wrote in
: 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; |
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Man, we should be SAILIN'!
"Larry" wrote in message ... "Don White" wrote in : 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. |
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Man, we should be SAILIN'!
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 |
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Man, we should be SAILIN'!
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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 |
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Man, we should be SAILIN'!
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 |
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