On 6/17/2012 11:55 AM, X ` Man wrote:
On 6/17/12 11:18 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:30:38 -0400, X ` Man
wrote:

Also, if planning to
"live aboard" in a northern clime, the average old cruiser like this Sea
Ray really sucks.

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Living aboard in a northern clime really sucks regardless of the boat
except for the 3 or 4 months of decent weather in the summer. One of
our lessons learned from taking the boat north is to not arrive in
New England before mid-June and to be back in the Chesapeake headed
south by mid to late September.



We always enjoyed pretty good boating weather in Connecticut from May
through about the middle of October, five to five and a half months,
"mileage" varying. One of my school chums who was a competitive small
sailboat racer used to get started with practice in April.

You're not likely to get consistently good boating weather until the 4th
of July and it's on its last legs by labor day. You need to venture much
further South if you wish to enjoy boating 6 to 8 months out of the
year. I am astonished by the number of you Yanks that waste so much of
your liquid and perhaps not so liquid assets on boating. They should
teach economics in college.