How SAD are you?

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Barry Loker

Other stuff now

My boat has been put away since the end of October but from my study window I can see 4 boats still moored in the harbour - a trimaran, 2 schooners and a ketch. Sigh! But I still have lots to do - give more time to my stamp collections ( childhood hobby resurrected in retirement), my fish, my orchids, work on the sailing dinghy being built for the grandchildren. Unfortunately they seem more obsessed with Harry Potter and the adventures of the Swallows and Amazons are, apparently, much too tame. Winter won't go away so I might as well enjoy it.
 
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March Hare II

Summer is winter, winter is summer!

When living in CT we tried to get out from May to November. The weather would sometimes cooperate and allow us to get some early/late season sails. It is just the opposite down here in the Keys. Now that it is starting to "cool off" we are able to do some sailing.
 
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Lauraine3557

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I'm in Rochester NY, the only city grayer than us

during the winter is Seattle. I really suffer from SAD - I mean REALLY! I visit the boat weekly while she is in storage. We chat and I pet her. I watch Cap'n Ron a few hundred times. I search the travel channels for shows with water in them. I sit under a tanning light to catch some rays. I read tropical travel brochures and, sometimes, we even get away to Key West for a couple of weeks. :)
 
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Beverly SV "Sight Unseen"

Winter activities

Since winter is approaching the North East, "Sight Unseen" is on sticks for the season. I find it the right time to shift gears and ride my horse, go shopping, decorate my new house, and visit friends in warmer climates who want a good sail buddy.Retirement suits me just fine! It is nice to sail with others in Florida where there are perfect sailing conditions all winter. Besides, they like my visits because I help do boat maintanence that they often put off.
 
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capn Bill

Not fair!

People who live in warmer climates have no idea how frustrating it is to have to cut short one's boating season with all the work of clean-out, haul-out, and lay-up/dry storage. After spending all that money ($3,000 for me) I only get six month's use out of my baby. I know some people welcome the change, but it seems like a lot of work for nothing just because the snow is starting to fly. Oh, well. I guess it gives us something to look forward to! Bill on STARGAZER
 
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Mike

Appropriately named disease

Here in Conn., my boat is awaiting its winter coat of shrinkwrap. This winter I plan to make new hatchboards, but I can't really do winter projects because of the shrinkwrap. Every two years or so, I come up with a plan to put together a frame and tarp system so I can go to the Yard and slap a couple of coats of cetol on the woodwork, etc.; every time I try it though, I spend all of my boat time fixing the #$%&! frame and tarp. Oh well, time to read magazines and books about sailing, make lists of projects for spring and hunker down.
 
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craig

DRINK HEAVILY

I just drink alot..... bitch moan and complain, yell at the dog, wife and kids. I get so SAD the only reason I go hunting is just to kill something.
 
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biorapper

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Jun 16, 2004
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One benifit of the "trailer sailor"

Just hook up to the hitch and head south! Gotta have a little extra free time though...
 
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Thane

Tough Sledding

SAD is an appropriate title... I smile at the responses from those who say now is the best time to sail (no oppressive heat, etc.) True for you, not true for us up here in the frozen tundra. Every year SAD causes me to ponder moving to a warmer location to extend the sailing season. After all, we do have a choice.....
 
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tcbro

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Lake Hopatcong

Scott, I was iceboating in your area last winter! I was 1 lake south of Hopatcong, at Lake Musconetcong. Tom
 
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Jim G

Iced in.

What makes the winter layup particularly hard along Lake Michigan is that there are a surprising number of beautiful if cold sailing days in much of the winter, if you could get out there. Unfortunately the marina has two to three foot of ice on it and the ice fishermen on it are in seventh heaven. Even if I put a bubbler system around the boat I'd never get out to the ice free lake anyway. A few of us lost souls can be found wandering around the place most days, each trying to console the other. Jim G.
 
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Moose

Low Florida Tides and High Winds

In Tampa Bay, average depth of only 5 feet, we have abundant opportunity to run aground almost anywhere we want durint the Winter months with the traditional lower high tides. But, it is worth the ride with the improved winds, inland (Tampa Bay) and off shore. :) Us diehards don't hibernate in the Winter, we dress warm and work less enjoying the great opportunities to visit local and distant VFW's, ELKS, and American Legion Posts on the inter-coastal waterways. Though I miss my O'Day 25 somewhat, the Chance 30/30 handles open water rides with both thrill and grace. It's a lot of fun to visit the few remaining marina's and the many private clubs on the West Coast of Florida, making an entrance like Chanook from the Northern most Wilderness greeting new and old friends.My very best wishes to all of you over the coming Holidays and sincere hopes of seeing you along the way this Winter. :) Moose/WOTAN
 
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Bob

Sail Year Round in Georgia

Ah, all those runabouts and party barges (pontoon boats) are snugged away for the winter in their garages and the air at the base of the Gerogia mountains becomes crisp and the winds will begin to blow steady. Its sailing time in Georgia!! Lake Lanier has year round sailing without freezing, opened marina's, club racing, continuing social events and those wonderful weekends on the lake. This is the best of the year and we try to sail every weekend when we can. The lake belongs to the sailors and hundreds of sailors partake. Bob Catalina 30
 
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chutz

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Sep 5, 2005
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Macgregor 21 Portland Oregon
Wetsuit with a zipper???

Why would I do that, peeing in the wetsuit is the best way to warm up...:) .-=gp=-.
 
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JohnS12875

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Jul 21, 2005
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TCBro

Where do you go iceboating? In MD? It's something I've always wanted to try, but figured I'd have to drive a long ways to do it.
 
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JohnS12875

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drysuits

Not all drysuits will float you. I've got one for kayaking. Some kinda waterproof ripstop nylon(?). Zero floatation. Of course, I can inflate it, but I don't think I'd want to trust the neck, wrist, and ankle seals to keep me floating. It is nice though. Just put on a layer of long johns, and some fleece, then the drysuit. When I first got it, I tested it out in mid january by walking out into the surf on the Delaware coast. When I came back out, water was freezing in the cold air. Nice and comfy and toasty inside. None of that chafing and binding you get w/ a wetsuit. I highly recommend getting integral boots.
 
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Tom Monroe

Forums like this ...

By January, the volume on this forum will be twice what it's been all fall cause it will be the only "sailing" people like me can get. Of course, by spring the comments will get a bit ... testy? (To be charitable) But at least we're talking sailing, and that gets me through the winter. Tom Monroe Carlye Lake (on the hard Friday at noon)
 
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Jim Boernge

HURRICANE SAD

I've got SAD from seeing the piles and piles of sailboats (and even the powerboats 'a little"). For many the season is forever over*cry, for some of us it a long wait in the yard for repairs. Be happy you have a dry place to store your boat for the winter. On the gulf there are not too many marina's left for the surviving boats:(. And I won't even go into the SAD state of afairs of the damage the 'salvage' crews *grr do to a relatively undamaged boat to make a few bucks more profit!!
 
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SceptreSailor

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May 24, 2004
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Catalina 310 Virginia Beach, VA
Not so Sad in Texas

Just rubbing it in we sail year round in Dallas. Founders Cup at Chandlers Landing Yacht Club starts in Januery 2006!!!!
 
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Allan

The Great frozen north

Happy Turkey Day to everyone, and tomorrow we will look like this with another Lake effect snow storm off lake Erie. This is the time when i finally get to hide in my wood shop for the next 4 months building the things i thought of doing during sailing season, but just couldn't convince myself to give up a beautiful sail day. Believe me the winters fly by when you keep your self busy and go to a few boat shows, just for the fix
 
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