Weather for Winter

[Stu Jackson]

Hello Below sent me this. This is the first time my boat has ever seen snow. She acted like a new puppy dog and asked "What's all that white stuff?" Having sailed our boat from San Francisco to Vancouver Island last summer, this is our first real winter.

Kermit oughta like this!

 

[marke14]

I ask myself this question almost every day.

 

[kloudie1]

I saw snow from inside a boat for the first time in '08 in Oriental SC.. Had gone to meet a good friend on his Beanytoe 42 . It was a bit chilly but he has a full enclosure around the cockpit.. it was very nice to sit and have hot rum toddies ..

 

[Gunni]

Claude, that is really funny because we have slip neighbors who sail down to Oriental, North Carolina every year to "avoid winter". Guess it is all relative and depends on where you started your winter trek! The Neuse River is close enough to Hatteras and the Atlantic that they get some benefit from the warm Gulf Stream.

 

[jssailem]

Ask that question several times a week. When it gets to a daily thing I usually have to fuel the car and drive north. A couple of days reunion and I'm good. Heard there was a thin sheet of ice in the marina. Likely slush. Last week. Welcome to Winter in the Pacific Northwest.

 

[Mark Maulden]

Least we dont have to winterize like the NE and others..

 

[capta]

I believe were we to try to sail back to the frigid north, our boat would refuse. The windlass would break, stopping us from raising the anchor, the roller furlers would not unfurl and the engine would laugh when I pushed the start button. The compass would only point south and the GPS would lie.
How do I know? She told me so.

 

[Scott T-Bird]

I believe were we to try to sail back to the frigid north, our boat would refuse. The windlass would break, stopping us from raising the anchor, the roller furlers would not unfurl and the engine would laugh when I pushed the start button. The compass would only point south and the GPS would lie.
How do I know? She told me so.

Capta, for some reason, I don't think you are trying hard enough. You can drop your anchor chain and leave it behind. You can replace your furler and hank-on your sails. You have a sailboat, not a power boat, so SAIL your boat north. How do you know which way is north? Just sail away from the sun and turn left when it gets cold. It's a pretty big coastline, so you won't miss it. I think you just don't have the will!

 

[capta]

Capta, for some reason, I don't think you are trying hard enough. You can drop your anchor chain and leave it behind. You can replace your furler and hank-on your sails. You have a sailboat, not a power boat, so SAIL your boat north. How do you know which way is north? Just sail away from the sun and turn left when it gets cold. It's a pretty big coastline, so you won't miss it. I think you just don't have the will!

She also said and I quote, "don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

 

[Scott T-Bird]

She also said and I quote, "don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry."

That's just a bluff. She would need you to take her back south.

 

[Justin_NSA]

Bella Luna is resting between friends in her yardspace. I will visit her Friday.

If you ever want to know what real cold is like, read one of the books on Shackleton's trip to the Antarctic. Their ship immediately froze and was crushed when they got there. The rest of the story is pure survival. It's graphic. Not to give much away, but they had to eat their sled dogs.

 

[Gunni]

I spent A LOT of time in cold water in my younger days and even with wetsuits or drysuits experienced severe and dangerous levels of hypothermia. I was a swimmer in top condition, trained and equipped. I can make myself shiver just remembering it. I hate cold water. Our bodies are not well adapted to cold water and it can quickly incapacitate and kill you, I have seen it. So when I see those photos in the sailing rags of smiling people sailing on snowy decks I see people standing next to their killer. Any sea can deliver hypothermia, but at least a warm sea gives you a fighting chance. Our boat came out this week and rests on the hard, I couldn't be happier to not have to walk an icy dock. Happy Holiday and stay warm!

 

[Calif. Ted]

Sunday was in the 60's and I was glad to be wearing fleece lined pants, by Tuesday it was in the 70's until it started raining Tuesday night and hasn't stopped yet. That's about all the winter I can handle.

 

[shemandr]

Sunday was in the 60's and I was glad to be wearing fleece lined pants, by Tuesday it was in the 70's until it started raining Tuesday night and hasn't stopped yet. That's about all the winter I can handle.

That's not nice.

 

[Captn Scotty]

Last week I was out for the last day of hunting season and I run into this young french couple stuck in a ditch. While I'm tying the knots to his explorer he says"you're a sailor"and proceeds to tell me that he just arrived in Campbell River from Alaska a couple of days ago. I asked him if he'd been living up there, and he says no I arrived there from France! Duh what? He tells me he spent 130 days stuck in the ice off Greenland waiting to make the Northwest Passage eating the eggs from his pet chicken, yup, pet chicken. Her name is Monique and she produced 106 eggs in that time! Interesting fellow, he sails around the world with Monique wrighting children's books about their adventures. I think he knows about cold! His name is Guirec Sou'dee, you should check out his Facebook page, he's got some good videos

 

[Doug4bass]

Sled dogs are tasty. I like mine with ketchup.

 

[shemandr]

Bella Luna is resting between friends in her yardspace. I will visit her Friday.

If you ever want to know what real cold is like, read one of the books on Shackleton's trip to the Antarctic. Their ship immediately froze and was crushed when they got there. The rest of the story is pure survival. It's graphic. Not to give much away, but they had to eat their sled dogs.

But I think the bottles of Scotch survived and were recovered. I hope I haven't confused survival stories. Why would you eat the dogs before you finished the scotch?