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On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:29:50 -0300, "Don White"
wrote: "Roger Long" wrote in message ... I fly out tomorrow (Monday Oct 21) for the nearly 1000 mile delivery trip in the new research vessel. Wheatly, Ontario Canada Lake Erie Welland Canal Lake Ontario Oswego Canal Erie Canal Hudson River Delaware Bay Delaware Canal Annapolis, MD Solomons, MD I wouldn't normally sign on for such a long trip as passenger/crew but, when you've designed the boat, it's a different experience. http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/RVRCpixvid.htm -- Roger Long Geeze...if you wanted to test the boat, why not travel east on the St. Lawrence, pass thorogh the Canso Causeway and then south west along the Nova Scotia coast, across the Gulf of Maine and then to it's home port? If it breaks down they can pull it with a horse, |
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"Vic Smith" wrote in message ... On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:33:08 -0300, "Don White" wrote: Yup...no country for girliemen! Hey, it's just adaptation, not sex-change. Ever see "The White Dawn"? Whenever I think about going too far north I remember that movie and make other plans. --Vic I do remember that film......although I was referring to the yankees who wimp out and retire south rather than you. |
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Don White wrote:
"Vic Smith" wrote in message ... On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:33:32 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:15:09 -0700, "Capt. JG" wrote: Coldest place on the planet has to be Buffalo or at least feel like the coldest.... Buffalo is cold but it is almost tropical compared to some other places in upstate NY. I've seen 41 below on one occasion and there are regions where it goes below zero every night for weeks at a time. At 41 below the grease was so thick in my car's transmission that it wanted to take off and go ahead in neutral. My old home town gets over 200 inches of snow every year. Last January they got over 100 inches in 10 days. The city of Oswego, 10 miles north at the northern end of the Oswego Canal, is directly on Lake Ontario. The winter north westerlies are so strong there that it piles up ice along the shore 30 to 40 feet high at times. It looks like the artic when that happens. Figures you moved to Florida. We had about 90 inches in Chicago one year - '78-'79 - and it was a constant battle getting to work. Shoveling all the time. Hard to imagine all that snow every winter. But a paradise for those who love winter sports I guess. When I was kid living near the lake I saw that arctic-like ice piled up like that once. We somehow had the sense not to venture too far. It was like being on a glacier, with crevasses and high overhangs. Must have been an oddity of real cold weather and easterlies that caused it. --Vic Yup...no country for girliemen! No place for bikinis, either! |
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Congratulations and enjoy the ride! I's like to hear about some of your
"lessons learned". SV Endeavor "Roger Long" wrote in message ... I fly out tomorrow (Monday Oct 21) for the nearly 1000 mile delivery trip in the new research vessel. Wheatly, Ontario Canada Lake Erie Welland Canal Lake Ontario Oswego Canal Erie Canal Hudson River Delaware Bay Delaware Canal Annapolis, MD Solomons, MD I wouldn't normally sign on for such a long trip as passenger/crew but, when you've designed the boat, it's a different experience. http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/RVRCpixvid.htm -- Roger Long |
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"Don White" wrote
Geeze...if you wanted to test the boat, why not travel east on the St. Lawrence, pass thorogh the Canso Causeway and then south west along the Nova Scotia coast, across the Gulf of Maine and then to it's home port? 100 gallons per hour. You do the math -- Roger Long |
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"Wayne.B" wrote
When this project started, I wan't looking forward to having to go "way up north" to cold Canada from Maine which is plenty far enough towards the north pole. I quickly learned that I was actually going south, almost to the latitude of Cape Cod. I didn't see snow once at the shipyard. The lake effect stuff all piles up on the other side of the lake. It was beautifully warm and pleasant on the sea trials. The warmth of the shallow lake water could be clearly felt. I never went to the yard when it wasn't noticably warmer and pleasanter than home in Maine. In any event, I'll be spending most of the lake portion of the trip inside. Wind and spray at 18 knots doesn't entice one to spend much time on deck. The lake Erie portion will be at night so as to be at the Welland canal entrance in the morning and we may do the Lake Ontario segment at night as well. After that, we'll be inland and heading south so I'm not going to load up with too much heavy clothing. I'm taking the SPOT but leaving it up to the university whether they want to publicize the new page address as it is their boat. Check this page http://www.umces.edu/vessel/ shortly to be updated to see if they include the link. -- Roger Long |
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"Roger Long" wrote in
: In any event, I'll be spending most of the lake portion of the trip inside. Wind and spray at 18 knots doesn't entice one to spend much time on deck. The lake Erie portion will be at night so as to be at the Welland canal entrance in the morning and we may do the Lake Ontario segment at night as well. After that, we'll be inland and heading south so I'm not going to load up with too much heavy clothing. I can easily see you're all broken up over being forced to go at gunpoint....(c; They figured it was easier to take you along than to cut the shackles between you and the bridge chairs....hee he.. I didn't see any reports on the university's webpages about you having to be dragged aboard kicking and screaming about being Shanghai'd. They probably just didn't report it..... These are marine biologists, remember. They usually eat the "experiments" on the mess decks if they catch any big ones.... To make it look "official", our DNR scientists measure the length of the Mahi Mahi before sending them down to be cleaned....(c; |
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"Roger Long" wrote in news:gdj7ns$f9v$1
@registered.motzarella.org: "Don White" wrote Geeze...if you wanted to test the boat, why not travel east on the St. Lawrence, pass thorogh the Canso Causeway and then south west along the Nova Scotia coast, across the Gulf of Maine and then to it's home port? 100 gallons per hour. You do the math -- Roger Long Oh, remember to leave your credit cards at home! It's an old trick. "We can't find our fuel card."..... |
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On 2008-10-20 20:28:43 -0400, "Roger Long" said:
"Don White" wrote Geeze...if you wanted to test the boat, why not travel east on the St. Lawrence, pass thorogh the Canso Causeway and then south west along the Nova Scotia coast, across the Gulf of Maine and then to it's home port? 100 gallons per hour. You do the math If I remember the numbers, that's about 5 gallons per mile. Times 1000 miles. Times $5 a gallon.... Dang, that's a year or two's luxury cruising kitty! -- Jere Lull Xan-à-Deux -- Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD Xan's pages: http://web.mac.com/jerelull/iWeb/Xan/ Our BVI trips & tips: http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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"Wayne.B" wrote
Have a good trip. Are you taking along your SPOT device ? Yes, the university PR guy just emailed me that they will be posting URL link at: http://www.umces.edu/vessel/ Roger |
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