Also Sprach Harry Krause :
wrote:
Two spectacular places for a boater to retire in the Pacific NW.

Anacortes.

Port Townsend.


The land of the summerless summer...

Poor deluded boy.

Dan

--
I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was
that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those
people.
-- Dan Quayle

Also Sprach Harry Krause :

Sorry, but I like to swim in the ocean without a wet suit and water
temps in at least the mid-70's. If you don't have ocean temps that high
or higher, you don't have summer.

Who'd want to swim in the ocean? That's where the whales poop.

Dan

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You have just destroyed one model XQJ-37 Nuclear-Powered Pan-Sexual
Roto-Plooker. And you're gonna have to pay for it! So give up, you
haven't got a chance.
-- Zappa, "Joe's Garage"

Harry Krause wrote:
Marshall Banana wrote:
Also Sprach Harry Krause :


Sorry, but I like to swim in the ocean without a wet suit and water

temps in at least the mid-70's. If you don't have ocean temps that
high
or higher, you don't have summer.


Who'd want to swim in the ocean? That's where the whales poop.

Dan



Who wants to swim in pools? That's where the HIV-positive Republicans
swim.

Harry Krause wrote:
Marshall Banana wrote:
Also Sprach Harry Krause :


Sorry, but I like to swim in the ocean without a wet suit and water

temps in at least the mid-70's. If you don't have ocean temps that
high
or higher, you don't have summer.


Who'd want to swim in the ocean? That's where the whales poop.

Dan



Who wants to swim in pools? That's where the HIV-positive Republicans
swim.


We putted across the sound to grab a bit of lunch yesterday. Enroute, I
noticed my newly installed depth sounder was reporting a temperature of
48 F. A walloping 16 degrees warmer than ice. Nobody goes swimming, in
the traditional sense, in water that cold for more than a short period
of time and lives to tell about it.

Personally, I can swim very well if I must but I prefer to cross the
water above the surface.

As far as summer goes up here......think of a gorgeous spring day in
MD. Not so miserably hot that one has to plan how to run from the
air-conditioned house to the air-conditioned car with the least
discomfort, but a balmy 75-80 degree sunny day with just a hint of a
slight breeze. String three such days together, and you've just had
"summer" in the NW. :-)

Also Sprach :

We putted across the sound to grab a bit of lunch yesterday. Enroute, I
noticed my newly installed depth sounder was reporting a temperature of
48 F. A walloping 16 degrees warmer than ice.

FYI, that's around 10 degrees WARMER than typical winter ocean temps when
I used to live on Long Island, NY.

Dan

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"Don White" wrote in message
news

"NOYB" wrote in message
...

snip
Naples earned a top score of five for its recreational activities
and
retail services and low scores in the cost of living and transportation.
According to Bland, when he visited Naples two years ago, the current
public
transportation system was not yet running, contributing to his low
transportation ranking.

snip

Halifax could have rated higher except for the climate and crime???


But climate and crime affects *everybody* who lives there. High prices and
lack of public transportation are non-issues for someone who already lives
in Naples, and never takes public transportation.

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
wrote:
Two spectacular places for a boater to retire in the Pacific NW.

Anacortes.

Port Townsend.


The land of the summerless summer...

And it's either raining...or about to rain.

And it's either raining...or about to rain.

************

You forgot, "just finished raining. again"

We're having an El Nino year up this way. Normally, we have nine inches
of rain by the end of February. So far this year we have had five. I
think most of that fell during 2-3 days of the boat show. Where did the
rain go? Down to "sunny" southern California, where Los Angeles has had
18-inches of rain so far in 2005, twice what Seattle gets in the same
period in a "normal" year
and many many times the few inches that LA would normally receive in
Jan/Feb.

On 22 Feb 2005 08:47:14 -0800, wrote:

String three such days together, and you've just had
"summer" in the NW. :-)

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Until next year... :-)

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:26:10 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

Nothing stateside beats Florida for boating.

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Couldn't agree more. We've cruised over 700 miles since the beginning
of the year and haven't even begun to see it all.