On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:32:15 -0500, HK wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:49:38 -0800, Chuck Gould
wrote:

I believe you. I just did not know what you East Coast snobs were referring
to.

Imagine this..........sport fishing in the Gulf, the Great Lakes, the
Pacific. Wow, how can I think such a thing exists.

Eh?
Shhh, Jim. Don't burst that bubble. Don't you know that a 15 knot
breeze on the E Coast blows 2-3 times as hard as anywhere else (and
according to some sources generates 11-foot breakers)? The sea itself
is particularly nasty, erratic, and unforgiving in the western
Atlantic, so only the manliest of men in the roughest, toughest hand
laid hulls inspected by "old guys" dare venture out? No boat suitable
for use on the E Coast could even be considered desirable on any other
body of water, and nothing built outside of Jersey or the Carolinas
has any business trying to tackle the world's most challenging boating
conditions. :-)

You have been in the NorthWet entirely to long, and Jim is just being
Eerie (again). I once had a business colleague from Indiana who was
always waxing poetic about his state. One day I told him that he was
no doubt correct, but that if I were to move to Indiana I'd want to be
in the mountains or along the sea shore. It took him a moment to get
my point. All that by way of saying that the great Pacific NorthWet
could meet those requirements easily, which means that they need to be
ammended - to include sunshine.




Indiana sucks. Big time. I have been to that state many times, and
concluded years ago it really had almost nothing to offer. The little
bit of shoreline it has along Lake Michigan incorporates several of the
crummiest cities in America.

There's hardly a worse place to be in the summer than in inland Indiana.

Having been through there many times, on trips to the west, I think Indiana
has a lot to offer.

It's thin.