Here's how to enjoy a boat in Buffalo during the winter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC45QJOn8Go


I think I'll stick to 45 degrees and drizzling. :-)

(Talk about boats that would be affected by climate change!)

Chuck Gould wrote:
Here's how to enjoy a boat in Buffalo during the winter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC45QJOn8Go


I think I'll stick to 45 degrees and drizzling. :-)

(Talk about boats that would be affected by climate change!)



That's your year-around water temp, right?

On Mar 28, 9:07?am, Harry Krause wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
Here's how to enjoy a boat in Buffalo during the winter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC45QJOn8Go

I think I'll stick to 45 degrees and drizzling. :-)

(Talk about boats that would be affected by climate change!)

That's your year-around water temp, right?

It's a bit warmer than that in Puget Sound, varying from about 48-52
degrees during the year. Some of the inland lakes can be warm enough
for comfortable swimming.

45 degrees is a typical air temperature in November. Just like Puget
Sound, the air warms up to about 52 in the summer. :-)

Chuck Gould wrote:
On Mar 28, 9:07?am, Harry Krause wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
Here's how to enjoy a boat in Buffalo during the winter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC45QJOn8Go
I think I'll stick to 45 degrees and drizzling. :-)
(Talk about boats that would be affected by climate change!)
That's your year-around water temp, right?

It's a bit warmer than that in Puget Sound, varying from about 48-52
degrees during the year. Some of the inland lakes can be warm enough
for comfortable swimming.

45 degrees is a typical air temperature in November. Just like Puget
Sound, the air warms up to about 52 in the summer. :-)


52F water temp? In the summer?
Hehehehe.

Jesus. I'd sooner go bowling. Bundled up boating isn't my cup of tea.
The women wear their bikinis under parkas.

Harry Krause wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
On Mar 28, 9:07?am, Harry Krause wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
Here's how to enjoy a boat in Buffalo during the winter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC45QJOn8Go
I think I'll stick to 45 degrees and drizzling. :-)
(Talk about boats that would be affected by climate change!)
That's your year-around water temp, right?

It's a bit warmer than that in Puget Sound, varying from about 48-52
degrees during the year. Some of the inland lakes can be warm enough
for comfortable swimming.

45 degrees is a typical air temperature in November. Just like Puget
Sound, the air warms up to about 52 in the summer. :-)


52F water temp? In the summer?
Hehehehe.

Jesus. I'd sooner go bowling. Bundled up boating isn't my cup of tea.
The women wear their bikinis under parkas.
Harry,
Let's be honest, you would not boat one hour more, or one hour less in
Seattle than you do in Maryland.

Have you ever thought about taking up bowling?

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Chuck Gould wrote:
On Mar 28, 9:07?am, Harry Krause wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
Here's how to enjoy a boat in Buffalo during the winter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC45QJOn8Go
I think I'll stick to 45 degrees and drizzling. :-)
(Talk about boats that would be affected by climate change!)
That's your year-around water temp, right?

It's a bit warmer than that in Puget Sound, varying from about 48-52
degrees during the year. Some of the inland lakes can be warm enough
for comfortable swimming.

45 degrees is a typical air temperature in November. Just like Puget
Sound, the air warms up to about 52 in the summer. :-)


52F water temp? In the summer?
Hehehehe.

Jesus. I'd sooner go bowling. Bundled up boating isn't my cup of tea. The
women wear their bikinis under parkas.

Northwestern boaters must take their lives in their hands every time they go
out.......even in mid July. 1-3 hour expected survival time in those sort
of water temperatures.

http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/hypothermia.htm

No thanks.

JimH wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Chuck Gould wrote:
On Mar 28, 9:07?am, Harry Krause wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
Here's how to enjoy a boat in Buffalo during the winter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC45QJOn8Go
I think I'll stick to 45 degrees and drizzling. :-)
(Talk about boats that would be affected by climate change!)
That's your year-around water temp, right?
It's a bit warmer than that in Puget Sound, varying from about 48-52
degrees during the year. Some of the inland lakes can be warm enough
for comfortable swimming.

45 degrees is a typical air temperature in November. Just like Puget
Sound, the air warms up to about 52 in the summer. :-)

52F water temp? In the summer?
Hehehehe.

Jesus. I'd sooner go bowling. Bundled up boating isn't my cup of tea. The
women wear their bikinis under parkas.

Northwestern boaters must take their lives in their hands every time they go
out.......even in mid July. 1-3 hour expected survival time in those sort
of water temperatures.

http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/hypothermia.htm

No thanks.




I really don't get the point of boating in a cabin.

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:57:04 -0400, "JimH" wrote:


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Chuck Gould wrote:
On Mar 28, 9:07?am, Harry Krause wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
Here's how to enjoy a boat in Buffalo during the winter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC45QJOn8Go
I think I'll stick to 45 degrees and drizzling. :-)
(Talk about boats that would be affected by climate change!)
That's your year-around water temp, right?

It's a bit warmer than that in Puget Sound, varying from about 48-52
degrees during the year. Some of the inland lakes can be warm enough
for comfortable swimming.

45 degrees is a typical air temperature in November. Just like Puget
Sound, the air warms up to about 52 in the summer. :-)


52F water temp? In the summer?
Hehehehe.

Jesus. I'd sooner go bowling. Bundled up boating isn't my cup of tea. The
women wear their bikinis under parkas.

Northwestern boaters must take their lives in their hands every time they go
out.......even in mid July. 1-3 hour expected survival time in those sort
of water temperatures.

http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/hypothermia.htm

No thanks.


I guess this means that there's no danger if your boat sinks from under you
in Lake Erie in the summer!
--
***** Hope your day is better than decent! *****

John H

On Mar 28, 10:57�am, "JimH" wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message

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Chuck Gould wrote:
On Mar 28, 9:07?am, Harry Krause wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
Here's how to enjoy a boat in Buffalo during the winter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC45QJOn8Go
I think I'll stick to 45 degrees and drizzling. :-)
(Talk about boats that would be affected by climate change!)
That's your year-around water temp, right?

It's a bit warmer than that in Puget Sound, varying from about 48-52
degrees during the year. Some of the inland lakes can be warm enough
for comfortable swimming.

45 degrees is a typical air temperature in November. Just like Puget
Sound, the air warms up to about 52 in the summer. :-)

52F water temp? In the summer?
Hehehehe.

Jesus. I'd sooner go bowling. Bundled up boating isn't my cup of tea. The
women wear their bikinis under parkas.

Northwestern boaters must take their lives in their hands every time they go
out.......even in mid July. *1-3 hour expected survival time in those sort
of water temperatures.

http://www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/hypothermia.htm

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You can be in trouble in a matter of minutes, even if you do float
around a while in your pfd before you cool off so much that your
central nervous systm shuts down. My wife has fallen overboard twice,
and while I have been able to get to her virtually immediately, the
shock of the cold water was so severe that she could barely assist in
helping to pull herself out. If I fall in, I could be screwed- she
doesn't have the strength to haul me out. She'd have to try to get me
out with the mast and boom. Sounds funny, but it's not.

A friend of mine fell into an empty slip across the finger float from
his boat.
He fell in near the head of the slip, and it was a 50-foot float. He
made the mistake of assuming he could swim the 50-feet to the end of
the float, the six feet across the float, and another couple of feet
to the end of his swim step. He was in his early 50's at the time, and
jogs 2-3 miles every day. He was so weak from the cold water that his
wife had to enlist some help to get him up onto the swimstep so he
could get out of the water.

Fall in a lot of places and your main concern is getting dry. Fall in
around here, and you need to be concerned with staying alive. Just
another day in the life of us rough, tough, iron-ass Pacific NW
boaters. Takes a special breed......(of idiots, maybe) :-)

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
oups.com...
Here's how to enjoy a boat in Buffalo during the winter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC45QJOn8Go


I think I'll stick to 45 degrees and drizzling. :-)

(Talk about boats that would be affected by climate change!)


It *is* strange around here. Back in February, I was driving down the shore
of Seneca Lake, which pretty much never freezes, and it's got loads of lake
trout. It was about 5 degrees, stiff wind, blowing snow, and there were two
30-ish foot boats out there with downriggers. It's that, or cabin fever,
kill the family and eat them. The shining! :-)