USCG tips for winter boating safety
 

http://www.uscgboating.org/waypoints...er_boating.htm

USCG tips for winter boating safety
 

My idea of winter boating, is shopping around for one while prices are
low! ?: )



Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On 5 Dec 2006 17:31:29 -0800, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

http://www.uscgboating.org/waypoints...er_boating.htm

What is this "winter" boating you speak of?

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On 5 Dec 2006 17:31:29 -0800, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

http://www.uscgboating.org/waypoints...er_boating.htm

What is this "winter" boating you speak of?

Winter boating: One of the benefits of living in the Pacific NW. Basic
requirements, stay warm and dry. We'll get out for about 1 weekend per
month or at least one long day trip
every month between now and spring, when we can begin boating more
comfortably more often. Hooray for diesel heaters. :-)

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On 5 Dec 2006 17:31:29 -0800, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

http://www.uscgboating.org/waypoints...er_boating.htm

What is this "winter" boating you speak of?

Is it this:

http://tinyurl.com/ydusks

or maybe this:

http://tinyurl.com/ynypas

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ACP wrote:
or maybe this:

http://tinyurl.com/ynypas

Man! I wonder how many tons of ice is on that thing!


Rest assured, that when it thaws, the owners will find roof leaks they
never thought they had!

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ACP wrote:


or maybe this:

http://tinyurl.com/ynypas

I'm surprised that boat hasn't swamped with all of that extra weight.

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:32:32 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

On 12/6/2006 6:44 AM, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:39:19 -0500, "ACP" wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On 5 Dec 2006 17:31:29 -0800, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

http://www.uscgboating.org/waypoints...er_boating.htm
What is this "winter" boating you speak of?
Is it this:

http://tinyurl.com/ydusks

Ok, that I agree is neat. Back in the day, I used to have a DN that I
sailed at Webster Lake. It's a lot of fun.

or maybe this:

http://tinyurl.com/ynypas

That's more my concept of "winter" boating. :)

My concept of winter boating where I grew up was the New York Boat Show.
About all we did with "outside water" was ice skate on it, from November
to March.

Or that. :)

Although I never got the hang of ice skating for some reason. I could
"skate" as in go in one direction, but it was a wobbly kind of thing -
just could never quite get it.

Same with snow skiing - never could quite get the hang of it. Just
not coordinated enough I guess. I do wish they had had snow boards in
my day - I think I could have handled that fine.

Let's see. You hate cold. You don't snow ski nor ice skate. What to
hell are you doing in the equivalent of Siberia???

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On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:09:18 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

Same with snow skiing - never could quite get the hang of it. Just
not coordinated enough I guess.

Just like getting to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice...

Darn near killed myself in the lower part of the learning curve but I
was determined.

Crash and burn. Repeat as needed.

I now regard snow as an abstract concept not yet proven to exist.

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Chuck Gould wrote:
ACP wrote:

or maybe this:

http://tinyurl.com/ynypas

I'm surprised that boat hasn't swamped with all of that extra weight.

I would think that weight would do some major damage to the boat,
stressing the railing resulting in some leaks around the stanchions next
summer.

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Harry Krause wrote:
On 12/6/2006 8:09 AM, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:32:32 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

On 12/6/2006 6:44 AM, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 21:39:19 -0500, "ACP" wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...

On 5 Dec 2006 17:31:29 -0800, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

http://www.uscgboating.org/waypoints...er_boating.htm

What is this "winter" boating you speak of?

Is it this:

http://tinyurl.com/ydusks

Ok, that I agree is neat. Back in the day, I used to have a DN that I
sailed at Webster Lake. It's a lot of fun.

or maybe this:

http://tinyurl.com/ynypas

That's more my concept of "winter" boating. :)

My concept of winter boating where I grew up was the New York Boat Show.
About all we did with "outside water" was ice skate on it, from
November to March.


Or that. :)

Although I never got the hang of ice skating for some reason. I could
"skate" as in go in one direction, but it was a wobbly kind of thing -
just could never quite get it.

Same with snow skiing - never could quite get the hang of it. Just
not coordinated enough I guess. I do wish they had had snow boards in
my day - I think I could have handled that fine.



I spent my first winter as a skater playing goalie in our pickup hockey
games. That way, I didn't have to skate too much. It was traditional
that the worst skater played goalie.


I used to organize a pick-up type of hockey league at work. Sometimes we
played amoung ourselves, and other times we would play other companies
to split the ice rental. I still have the 'Mother Corp' hockey jersey
somewhere.
One of my treasures positions back in the 60s was a pair of CCM Tacks
worn by Bobby Hull in a commercial. Trouble was, the skates were only
size 8.5 so I had to buy an early model of Lange moulded boot type
skates. Those are still in the basement collecting dust.
My hockey position was defenceman because I was slow skating and
couldn't turn to the right as well as I turned to the left.
When we were kids we grew up playing 'ground hockey all
fall/winter/spring. Those were the days!