NOYB wrote:

Some of the wrecks that I plan on hitting this Spring are 50-70 miles from
sho

Bayronto
Dove that wreck about 10 years ago, would like to get back there this
summer.

Fantastico
Just did a fishing trip there bac in Sept. Brought home limit of
Yellowtail, including the largest one I have ever seen, let alone
caught. Had fun playing with some sharks, couple of large barracuda and
some Goliaths. All in all, a GREAT day.


Stoney Point
Hope to dive that one some day.

Do you dive as well?

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NOYB wrote:
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Harry Krause wrote:

My idea of "Paradise" includes lots of sunshine, temps in the 80s,
warm
water. I believe that excludes the Pacific Northwest.

During portions of the year, we have everything except the warm water.
We pretty much stay out of the water.

Things we don't have a swarms of mosquitos,

When boating, the mosquitos don't bother me. But the no-see-ums suck.


oppresive humidity,

I'll take heat/humidity any day over cold/damp.

God designed to handle the heat with a built-in air conditioning system:
sweating and evaporation.

What did he give us to deal with cold? Shivering.



any
serious need for air conditioning on a boat,

And we don't have a serious need for a heater.

early summer sunsets,


???
Not sure what you mean here. It's light until 8:30 or 9 in the Summer.

And that's about an hour earlier than summer sunset up this way. In
late June, it doesn't get really dark until close to 10PM, and sunrise
is around 4 AM.

Which means my 6 year old wouldn't go to bed until 10pm...and my 2 1/2 year
old would wake up at 4am. No thanks.

"DownTime" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:

Some of the wrecks that I plan on hitting this Spring are 50-70 miles
from sho

Bayronto
Dove that wreck about 10 years ago, would like to get back there this
summer.

Fantastico
Just did a fishing trip there bac in Sept. Brought home limit of
Yellowtail, including the largest one I have ever seen, let alone caught.
Had fun playing with some sharks, couple of large barracuda and some
Goliaths. All in all, a GREAT day.


Stoney Point
Hope to dive that one some day.

Do you dive as well?

I got certified in '92, and was very active in diving for a couple of years.
But I haven't dove in at least 8 years. My brother moved down here 6 months
ago, and he and I were just talking about buying some gear and getting back
into diving again.

Around 1/19/2006 12:58 AM, wrote:

Example, Dodd Narrows.

Maybe 40-50 yards wide, on average, with a bit
of turn involved. Rocks on both sides. There is a huge lumber mill just
north of Dodd, and there are log rafts running through there all the
time (at slack). With all the lumbering in the area, there is a
constant need to keep an eye out for drift. The guy who runs 18 knots
into the 6 knot current to net 12 knots thinks he's got the cat by the
pajamas.........until he gets an eyefull of the 2-foot diameter log,
dead ahead, sideways in the current, headed straight for his stem and
probably his props. No time or room to turn around...KER_CHUNK! Now
he's dead inthe water, drifting astern, out of control. No thanks. You
can separate the veterans from the greenhorns and the wannabe's around
here by watching which boats try to run one of these passes against a
serious flow.

Heh. I'll vouch for this one:

Broke an unsecured stereo and knocked the books off the bookshelf going
through Dodd one time, and that was just from a near-slack (going with
the ~1 knot current), tiny 2-foot diameter whirlpool that caught us by
the transom.

Mom said never again.


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats." -- Kenneth Grahame
~~ Ventis secundis, tene cursum ~~

Around 1/19/2006 9:33 AM, Harry Krause wrote:

wrote:

During portions of the year, we have everything except the warm water.
We pretty much stay out of the water.

Hey! Speak for yourself, buddy!

Things we don't have a swarms of mosquitos, oppresive humidity, any
serious need for air conditioning on a boat, early summer sunsets,
manatees, overcrowded transient moorages (most of the time), wall to
wall housing and civilization around our best cruising areas, or a 30
or 40 mile run to someplace that fish are biting. :-)


Oh, and unlike Seattle-ites, we weren't living in fear of a huge
earthquake or tsunami.

Actually, that's very like us Seattleites: Most people here don't worry
much about those things either.


"We pretty much stay out of the water," would pretty much mean I
wouldn't bother with a boat.

Ah, Chuck is just a wuss.


Current water temperature is 48.4°F, and average summer temps reach
about 56°F, just in case you were wondering.

I frequently go salt-water swimming or tubing during the summer,
especially while on vacation up north. Some parts of the Canadian Gulf
Islands are quite warm compared down here in the Sound.

Around here, the water isn't a destination in and of itself, merely a
means to get to that destination.


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats." -- Kenneth Grahame
~~ Ventis secundis, tene cursum ~~

Around 1/19/2006 12:26 PM, NOYB wrote:


I'll take heat/humidity any day over cold/damp.

Ugh, not me. I'm not built to handle anything over 73 degrees, with or
without humidity.


God designed to handle the heat with a built-in air conditioning system:
sweating and evaporation.

You can only get so naked if you're hot, but you can keep adding layers
if you're cold.


What did he give us to deal with cold?

Animals that make very nice coats.


--
~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat"
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing about in boats." -- Kenneth Grahame
~~ Ventis secundis, tene cursum ~~