How do you guys up north do it?

Tom. Awesome Pictures. I did a little "Combat" fishing on the Russian river a few years ago. Loved trolling for Kings. You have a beautiful area to be boating. I love Alaska. A friend of mine has a cottage on Whales island. I need to swindle a trip out of him. Awesome pictures again, thanks for sharing.
 
We boat pretty intently for half the year - every weekend between mid April and End of October and about four weeks of vacation time. Then I have to work to pay the bills...:smt100

If I did it year round...I don't think I'd be at it as hard. By the end of the season, I'm ready for a break, and then it's Christmas, and then it's the Toronto International Boat Show, and then it's the Miami International Boat Show...and then it's time to start bugging the marina about the work schedule to get ready for launch.:smt024

Plus, we have pretty a spectacular boating area in Georgian Bay!:thumbsup:
 
Am i the only nut case ?? :grin:. That goes to the marina in the winter time to sleep on boat. I take my procat heater with a 18 pack of beer to be with my girl :smt038. I do it a few times during the winter lay up. :smt089
 
Yes, Shhhhh. Just this morning my wife was complaining about me talking about the boat too much.
Maybe a sleepover IS in order. HAHAHAHA
 
I would but don't want to wake her up:grin:

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Same for me as many of you... Make the most of the whole season (2,000 miles :grin:), and then count the days until we can do it all again. While I miss boating all winter, it does make the whole boating thing more of a precious commodity. We NEVER take boating for granted!

The flip-side question is of course, how can you stand dealing with boating in a corrosive bath, with crap swimming around that can literally eat you alive? :wink: :lol:

No one has lived life to the fullest until they have known the feeling of swimming in Lake Huron or Georgian Bay! No soap, no hot shower can hold a candle to the refreshed, clean sensation after a swim in pure, clean, drinking water. The aft shower is strictly for cleaning the swim platform in our world. :grin:

Of course, winter boat visits do help too! :smt043

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Wow,

Those are some breathtaking views! I am so glad that they make cameras so I don't have to be there to see them! I don't do cold...

you guys are bad a's.

Here in houston we shut down the school system if it gets below 35. not for safety, just so if it snows we can take the next 10 years of christmas card pictures!

nothin but love for you! now excuse me...i've got to go mow the yard. and vacuum the pool. maybe the snow has it's upside afterall. :)
 
temptress said:
Wow,

Those are some breathtaking views! I am so glad that they make cameras so I don't have to be there to see them! I don't do cold...

you guys are bad a's.

Here in houston we shut down the school system if it gets below 35. not for safety, just so if it snows we can take the next 10 years of christmas card pictures!

nothin but love for you! now excuse me...i've got to go mow the yard. and vacuum the pool. maybe the snow has it's upside afterall. :)
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No snow upside. Unlike mowing the lawn, snow has to be shoveled at unpredictable intervals. LOL

Speaking of Georgian Bay...:thumbsup:

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Heck I was out on the boat this morn...!

to get my gas grill, to put under my tractor, to thaw a frozen chain case so I could plow my drive.

getting the grill out just wasn't the same:smt089.

I'm not doing well with it. ... Ron
 
In the winter I catch up on my Solar imaging & go to Myrtle Beach, SC a couple times!


Rich
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katricol said:
Northern boaters UNITE!!! If you read the statistics of how many hours boaters put on their boats per year....guess what??? it is northern boaters! That's right and Florida boaters are'nt even second....the losers lol Ric
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There may be something to this. Hard core boaters in our area are out EVERY weekend during the spring, summer, fall. 18 weekends of Cruiser boating a year. We make every one of them count. I personally like the winter to catch up on all the things that I didn't do during the summer, and boating wouldn't be the same for us if it was all year around. We never ask our boating friends and worry if they are going to be out on the water during the weekend...... because we already know they are.

Mike
 
there is for us that Plow the stuff makes $$$$$ for boating in the summer
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Or p*ss it away on ebay for things . We really don't need. :grin:
 
Mexcelcior...it is a fact!! boat us published this last year. We in the north use our boats more hours per year than in the south, because we use them every week in the summer Ric
 
Wayne's World said:
Or p*ss it away on ebay for things . We really don't need. :grin:
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"...we really don't need"? I can honestly say I never

purchased anything on ebay I didn't really need (at the

time) LOL!!!

happy holidays to all.

Rich
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Jackie J V said:
We boat pretty intently for half the year - every weekend between mid April and End of October and about four weeks of vacation time. Then I have to work to pay the bills...:smt100

If I did it year round...I don't think I'd be at it as hard. By the end of the season, I'm ready for a break, and then it's Christmas, and then it's the Toronto International Boat Show, and then it's the Miami International Boat Show...and then it's time to start bugging the marina about the work schedule to get ready for launch.:smt024

Plus, we have pretty a spectacular boating area in Georgian Bay!:thumbsup:
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There you go great post. This is how we boat as well, starting the middle of March and ending in late October. It may sound funny, but after that I am ready for a break, and putting over a hundred hours a season on the boat I pretty much get the years use out of her.

As far as location goes, it’s the Chesapeake Bay for us. Does not get much better than that! You know I kind of like being a “Northern Boater”.:thumbsup:
 
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Away Point said:
No snow upside. Unlike mowing the lawn, snow has to be shoveled at unpredictable intervals. LOL
What do you mean no up side there is for us that Plow the stuff makes $$$$$ for boating in the summer.:grin:
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Oh yeah, that's good! Just haven't figured out how to get someone to pay me for shovelin' my own driveway! lol

The two seasons: Boating, and save up gas money for boating. :thumbsup:
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I thought about you guys this morning while I was out on my boat. After seeing the utube videos and picutres of all of your boats shrink wrapped and on trailors burried in snow, I decided that having a passion that you can enjoy year round is a good thing. You have some great pictures and videos to look at while you pine away in the snow, i'll give you that. To all my buds in the winterie zone... I raise my glass... may global warming bring you hapiness and sunshine sooner than later!
 
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