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World's Easiest Quiz.- (diverted to West Coast Cruising)
Shortwave Sportfishing wrote: On 26 Feb 2006 08:51:06 -0800, wrote: Wayne.B wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:12:35 -0500, Harry Krause wrote: BTW, why didn't you move to the west coast and buy that trawler? Truth is that once you are south of Seattle, there are a lot more cruising opportunities on the east coast. And you don't need foul weather gear, long underwear and a cabin heater to enjoy them. Fair comment, if one overlooks the minor technicality that some of the prettiest parts of Puget Sound are south of Seattle. Our sheltered "inland" waters, and "Inside Passage" waters that run in an almost uninterrupted 1,300 mile link from Olympia, Washinton to Skagway Alaska are, IMO, the finest cruising waters in the world unless baking up a good case of melanoma is high on the list of ones' proiorities. Yes, you will find days in June, July, and August where a little cabin heat will be welcome just about sunrise. The other difference may be that for most Pacific NW waters, miles and miles of pristine wilderness shoreline will be ocassionally interrupted by a small patch of "civilization". My limited observations lead me to suspect that the reverse is more commonly true on the hot, humid, side of the continent. :-) I would much rather be sunburned than suffer a case of mold. Neptune has smiled on Pacific NW boaters. During the summer months, our mold dries out just a bit and turns a beautiful nut brown that any unsuspecting non-native might actually mistake for a real suntan. What did the Seattlite say to the Pillsbury Doughboy?..................."Nice tan!!" However, we when do get our annual sunny weekend we don't have Clue One about how to properly react and you will see a high percentage of the population with second degree sunburns at work come Monday morning. I have heard a rumor that hospital emergency rooms are overwhelmed with people frightened about the mysterious red "rash" that is covering the bodies of entire families. Did you know that one of the hottest markets for sunglasses is in the Pacific NW? Seriously, true. I have two theories about this; the first being that if our normal and gorgeous cloud cover ever becomes defective enough to let a suggestion of sunlight actually beam through- panicked NW'ers run out and make frantic purchases of sunglasses so that they will have every possible defense at hand in case of aned actual "solar emergency." The second theory is that the number of days when sunglasses would be useful are so few and far between that few people remember where they stored their still-new sunglasses after the one day of "solar emergency" they wore them last year. |
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