On Saturday, 27 April 2013 22:50:43 UTC-3, Tim wrote:
On Apr 20, 5:58*pm, Wayne B wrote:

We're getting along into late April and it's time to splash,

especially in the Chesapeake and farther south, but even the northeast

should be warming up by now. *When I was racing sailboats on Long

Island Sound we would have already been out for practice at least once

by this time.



Let's hear some on the water reports from you guys.



We're in English Harbour, southern part of Antigua at the moment.

There are lots of exotic old sailboats here this week for the Classic

Boat Regatta, and next week the racing hot shots show up for Antigua

Sailing Week. * Everything is good here except the weather - lots of

gusty winds and heavy rain squalls that come and go. * The rain and

mist make it look a bit like Maine or the Pacific North Wet at times

but the temperatures are much more agreeable in the upper 70s and low

80s.



http://antiguaclassics.com/v1/



http://www.sailingweek.com/v3/index.php



I did some today.



Due to heavy rains locally and up north, plus snow melting in the

upper states has caused the Mississippi river to reach pre-flood

stage. Same with the creek behind my farm... it's 9 feet above normal

and flooding fields.. It had been a while since I'd done it, but I

took my 10 ft. Jon boat, some oars, trolling motor and an 8-D battery

and went back and launched it in the creek. Heading down stream was

really kind of a treat. Normally the creek is way low in the summer

and impassable with a jon boat due to log jams, but this was easy. I

saw lots of ducks, hawks and an occasional fish eagle.



Driving distance from the farm to town is about 4 mi. By boat it's

approx. 9. Even with high water there's really no current as of to

say, but I used the old trolling motor to power quite a bit back to

the farm.



I found that even slow, easy rowing will remind you of unused muscles

you didn't realize you had. Right now my arms feel like concrete held

on by rubber bands....


Speaking of birds....
while outside replacing our front entrance door.. we saw a good size bald eagle gliding over our street being chased by a couple of noisy crows.
What a majestic bird... it continued in an easterly direction up to the intersection with a busy street just over a block away and then turned south.