Gonna be in the low 30's this week.

I didn't get to finish the 23' Marquis this year But the 18' Chris Craft was always ready. Got to take it out to Carlyle lake a dozen or so times this summer. Always a blast but time to put it away for the winter.

Well it was fun while the weather held...

Tim
"Gonna be in the low 30's this week.

I didn't get to finish the 23' Marquis this year But the 18' Chris Craft was always ready. Got to take it out to Carlyle lake a dozen or so times this summer. Always a blast but time to put it away for the winter.

Well it was fun while the weather held... "

Waiting for the call from my dealer's service dept to come and get my 16 Xcalibur.
I'll put it at the end of the driveway up on blocks and erect the Navigloo shelter over it for the next 6 long months.

It's strange to think that even here the summers seem so short and the winters so long...

On 11/12/14 10:43 AM, Tim wrote:
It's strange to think that even here the summers seem so short and the winters so long...



The coldest day of my life was a bright, sunny January day in 1970 in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. The wind coming off the lake was just brutal.
Don't know what the temp was.

Second coldest, at least in feeling cold, was a February day in 1990,
getting off the plane in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I was told it was 20
below zero, Fahrenheit, and that if you peed outdoors, it would freeze
before it hit the ground.

--
“There’s more idleness and abuse of government favors among the
economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.” -
Norman Mailer

On 11/12/2014 11:01 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 11/12/14 10:43 AM, Tim wrote:
It's strange to think that even here the summers seem so short and the
winters so long...



The coldest day of my life was a bright, sunny January day in 1970 in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. The wind coming off the lake was just brutal.
Don't know what the temp was.

Second coldest, at least in feeling cold, was a February day in 1990,
getting off the plane in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I was told it was 20
below zero, Fahrenheit, and that if you peed outdoors, it would freeze
before it hit the ground.

The coldest two winters of my life were spent at Great Lakes Naval
Training Center.

By the way, a belated Happy Veterans Day to you.

In the mid 80's I grew a beard and told my wife I was gonna shave it off on January 1. I did. And the next weekend it got down to -23 with a 30 mi wind. Talk about a glass jaw. WOW!

wrote:
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:33:44 -0500, Harrold wrote:

The coldest two winters of my life were spent at Great Lakes Naval
Training Center.

Cape May in February was pretty cold too.

My brother spent 3 summers in the Antarctic as a SeaBee. Said it got -70f
during summer storms. They could not drive the snowcats as the tracks
would break due to cold. Winter, the Russians had the alcohol thermometer
freeze at -125. Coldest I think I ever felt was a bright sunny day at the
1960 Winter Olympics. Did not have warm snow boots and was about 5F. Have
been in colder weather, but better equipped.

BAR wrote:
In article om,
says...

On 11/12/2014 11:01 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 11/12/14 10:43 AM, Tim wrote:
It's strange to think that even here the summers seem so short and the
winters so long...



The coldest day of my life was a bright, sunny January day in 1970 in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. The wind coming off the lake was just brutal.
Don't know what the temp was.

Second coldest, at least in feeling cold, was a February day in 1990,
getting off the plane in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I was told it was 20
below zero, Fahrenheit, and that if you peed outdoors, it would freeze
before it hit the ground.

The coldest two winters of my life were spent at Great Lakes Naval
Training Center.

By the way, a belated Happy Veterans Day to you.

Better than spending a summer at Parris Island.

I don't know about that. Had a friend, who got a medical discharge after
losing two toes to frostbite at Great Lakes NTC.

On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 12:01:38 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:01:50 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 11/12/14 10:43 AM, Tim wrote:
It's strange to think that even here the summers seem so short and the winters so long...



The coldest day of my life was a bright, sunny January day in 1970 in
Grand Rapids, Michigan. The wind coming off the lake was just brutal.
Don't know what the temp was.

Second coldest, at least in feeling cold, was a February day in 1990,
getting off the plane in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I was told it was 20
below zero, Fahrenheit, and that if you peed outdoors, it would freeze
before it hit the ground.


I have been lots of places where it was colder, skiing, hunting and on
ship in the North Atlantic but the coldest I ever felt was on an ell
platform in Chicago, just about any day in the winter.
Taking a warm coat to Chicago is just a trick. It fools you into
thinking you can actually go outside.
You are supposed to stand under the IR heaters outside the hotel, dive
into a Checker and run inside when you get where you are going

Years ago I flew into Chicago one January. Rental was running when I picked it up at the airport, so I drove to the hotel and parked it. Next morning I went out to start it, and it barely clicked. Was -30, and with windchill close to -60! Three days later the car finally cranked, it got up to 5 degrees and it actually felt pretty good outside.

You nawthuners can have it.

Starter froze up at -30? I can appreciate that...