Darn Weather!

Your antenna is still wrong...

I just went down to my boat. The wind gauge on the hard top was reading about 30 knots with gusts up to about 45 knots. It was so windy the isenglass was creaking. What was really creepy is it has blown all the water out of the southern bay here. The tidal range today was about 7 feet... ridiculous.

I wouldn't go out in that slop... I'm a sissy. :grin:
 
Oh yeah... and Todd... Go buy your kid a real fishing pole. You are going to damage him for life with that Scooby-Doo Zebco thing.
 
Four Suns said:
Oh yeah... and Todd... Go buy your kid a real fishing pole. You are going to damage him for life with that Scooby-Doo Zebco thing.
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I'm sending him to "Uncle Gary's Fishing camp"
BTW The Antenna I'll have you know is as Viagra'd as it'll get until I buy those shims you suggested. Thanks by the way, It will get it done.

After three weekends in the bilge I can live with the fact that I'm on the boat, everything is working (besides the skew antenna), you're at home sucking on a sore toe and I'm sucking down a cold one, and It's not Scooby doo, it's "Lightning McQueen"..... KERCHOW!

Since it's still daylight here....and I assume it's nearly dark or dark already there don't forget to set your clock back.....

Skol my Brother!.......
 
Little bit of rain and a slight breeze: Try Michigan today, snow up three inches on top of the fourteen on the ground: North wind 26 mph with gust to 35 mph. Did mention twenty two degrees going down to nine tonight.
 
Uuuuuuuuuuuum.......................it's time to set the clocks ahead Todd. But maybe Gary will turn his back instead.
 
despite the obscene amount of rain in the past day and a half, Little Krissy and i went skiing today. skis are now stowed away til winter '08. MAN was it windy in PA (allentown area). i mean REALLY windy, crazy windy. definitely NOT a boat day!
 
We'll... I chickened out :huh:

Didn't get down to the boat until 4:30pm and Baltimore is, at cruising speed, a little over an hour run. The weather cleared up (aside from the wind), temps got about 60degress.. minutes after I got to the boat I cranked up the engines and took in the electric line. Just as we started taking the lines off a nasty black cloud came and the wind speed soared. Friend across the bay called and said he was getting gusts between 52-58knots.

With the turn in weather we figured we'd probably have to go slow which means three hours - we'll into when it go dark. So we called off trip and stayed at the dock.

Disappointed as heck, I guess I have to wait until next weekend. Keeping my fingers crossed the weather is navigateable.
 
You big girly man.

That would have been a great time to learn you really can't control the boat in 58knot winds. I got caught in a really bad squall on the Jame River a few years back with my 480 DB and that's when I learned the things they don't tell you about in bridge boat Sea Rays. NOAA was broadcasting 65mph winds with the squall and the water literally turned to white foam and I slowed the boat down due to no visability only to learn there wasn't enough power coming out the rear end to keep it pointed into the wind with all the sail area the boat has... Don't they teach you to slow down and point it into the wind?... Oh.. and the GPS lost it's fix (freekin' RayNAV 300 but that's another story). So the choice became control the boat and run too fast (i.e. planing and fighting the steering while being blind) or slow the boat down and let the nose point where the wind wanted it to. Never had that problem on a sail boat. I was lucky I didn't ground the boat and get washed up on shore with that one.

You should watch the Chesapeake Bay Ports system... it's very useful.
 
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All this talk about chilly weather... in Minneapolis, I have not seen my grass all winter, e.g. covered in snow.

St Croix river, still frozen!
 
14 inches of snow from Friday 0800 to Saturday 1630..... plus an Ohio River 1 foot below flood stage prior to the snow melt and a boat shrink-wrapped and blocked:smt021 Good news is only 15 years until I can retire from the fire service :smt101 and move to more temperate climates.... At least I love the job...:smt038
 
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