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Champipple
Master Marine Consultant

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USA
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Initially Posted - 01/30/2008 :  05:43:03  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage  Send Champipple an AOL message
Today: West wind 41 to 44 knots decreasing to between 29 and 32 knots. A chance of snow showers, mainly before 1pm. Waves 14 to 18 feet subsiding to 10 to 14 feet. (those waves are 5 - 8 seconds apart)
D. Wolff
DPO C25 Hull 401
Currently Sailing "Champagne and Ripple" 1982 O'day 30


Chief Measurer 2002-2006
Vice-commodore 2007

John Russell
Master Marine Consultant

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USA
2276 Posts
Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  07:05:54  Show Profile
Yeah, and did he mention the wind chill temperature is 5 below zero at 0800 EST?

John Russell
1999 C250 SR/WK #410
Bay Village, Ohio
Sailing Sandusky Bay on Lake Erie


Don't Postpone Joy!
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dlucier
Master Marine Consultant

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Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
6441 Posts
Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  07:53:30  Show Profile
With a projected 7' drop in water levels occuring shortly here on the west side, my marina is going to be bone dry.

Lake Erie Water Level Displacement

Great Lakes Wind Info
Don Lucier

North Star SR/FK
Edited by - dlucier on 01/30/2008 07:54:50
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Ed Cassidy
Captain

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USA
359 Posts
Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  10:45:27  Show Profile
So, what do you do with yoour boat? Do you let it balance on it's keel? Or do you tie it real tight to the dock and let it hang in the air?

Just curious!
Ed

Ed
HisHorse
1979 SR/SK #1393
Green Cove Springs, FL
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dlucier
Master Marine Consultant

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Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
6441 Posts
Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  12:13:49  Show Profile
Well, this time of year most boats are high and dry on land. For boats in the water, fin keels tend to sink in the muck...



Wing keelers tend to not sink as much...



And some boats roll over and play dead...
Don Lucier

North Star SR/FK
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Champipple
Master Marine Consultant

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USA
6776 Posts
Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  12:40:39  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage  Send Champipple an AOL message
Give us another 3 days at this temp and you'll see a drop in ice levels not water levels
D. Wolff
DPO C25 Hull 401
Currently Sailing "Champagne and Ripple" 1982 O'day 30


Chief Measurer 2002-2006
Vice-commodore 2007
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Frank Hopper
Past Commodore

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Pitcairn Island
6774 Posts
Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  13:17:49  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
We are blowing 30 gusting to 50 for the second day in a row. I just ran home at lunch and used my electric chainsaw to get a tree off my power line. Ah winter.
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Prospector
Master Marine Consultant

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Canada
1593 Posts
Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  13:25:19  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
We lost power at O'dark thirty this morning. Spent the rest of th enight watching the dead elm tree sway back and forth over the boat, trying to guess whether the boat was in the arc path of the tree if it fell. I didn't sleep much last night.
"Iris"
1984 FK/SR #4040
http://littleboatiris.blogspot.com/

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Champipple
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  13:25:59  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage  Send Champipple an AOL message
quote:
Originally posted by Frank Hopper

used my electric chainsaw to get a tree off my power line.


Somthing intrinsically wrong with that statement....
D. Wolff
DPO C25 Hull 401
Currently Sailing "Champagne and Ripple" 1982 O'day 30


Chief Measurer 2002-2006
Vice-commodore 2007
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Frank Hopper
Past Commodore

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Pitcairn Island
6774 Posts
Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  13:57:51  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
Still had power. The electric company is at the house now.
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Champipple
Master Marine Consultant

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USA
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Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  16:02:47  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage  Send Champipple an AOL message
I was thinking more along the lines of safety
D. Wolff
DPO C25 Hull 401
Currently Sailing "Champagne and Ripple" 1982 O'day 30


Chief Measurer 2002-2006
Vice-commodore 2007
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Prospector
Master Marine Consultant

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Canada
1593 Posts
Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  16:05:39  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
quote:
Originally posted by Champipple

I was thinking more along the lines of safety


I don't think it would be safe to use the saw to cut the powerlines. I think he was better off cutting the tree...
"Iris"
1984 FK/SR #4040
http://littleboatiris.blogspot.com/

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Edited by - Prospector on 01/30/2008 16:06:22
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Dave Bristle
Master Marine Consultant

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Djibouti
9999 Posts
Response Posted - 01/30/2008 :  17:26:33  Show Profile
I wonder if the power company told him to never do that again...
Association Port Captain, Mystic, CT
Past member and DPO of C-25 #5032
Now on Eastern 27 Sarge (but still sailing) and posting as "Stinkpotter".

Passage, Mystic, and Sarge--click to enlarge.
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Champipple
Master Marine Consultant

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USA
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Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  06:36:58  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage  Send Champipple an AOL message
OUCH
D. Wolff
DPO C25 Hull 401
Currently Sailing "Champagne and Ripple" 1982 O'day 30


Chief Measurer 2002-2006
Vice-commodore 2007
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John Russell
Master Marine Consultant

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2276 Posts
Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  07:35:13  Show Profile
Wow, Duane, was that at EYC?

John Russell
1999 C250 SR/WK #410
Bay Village, Ohio
Sailing Sandusky Bay on Lake Erie


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dlucier
Master Marine Consultant

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Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)
6441 Posts
Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  07:58:29  Show Profile
That'll keep the beer in the cooler cold!
Don Lucier

North Star SR/FK
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Dave Bristle
Master Marine Consultant

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Djibouti
9999 Posts
Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  09:11:43  Show Profile
Oooooo... that hurts! And you're getting a big freeze next. Looks like that lady is gonna soak for a while!
Association Port Captain, Mystic, CT
Past member and DPO of C-25 #5032
Now on Eastern 27 Sarge (but still sailing) and posting as "Stinkpotter".

Passage, Mystic, and Sarge--click to enlarge.
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Nautiduck
Mainsheet C-250 Tech Editor

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USA
3234 Posts
Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  10:45:43  Show Profile
That's the new Hunter 260 Ice Ballast!


We cannot direct the winds but we can adjust our sails.

Randy & Pat Kolb
2000 C250WK #443
Nauti Duck
Eugene, Oregon
Fern Ridge Lake
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Steve Blackburn
Master Marine Consultant

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Canada
1089 Posts
Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  13:04:54  Show Profile  Visit Steve Blackburn's Homepage
I didn't know hunter got into the submarine business.
Steve Blackburn, Calgary, AB
C250WB - 1999 - Hull 396
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Champipple
Master Marine Consultant

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USA
6776 Posts
Response Posted - 02/07/2008 :  16:15:58  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage  Send Champipple an AOL message
quote:
Originally posted by John Russell

Wow, Duane, was that at EYC?


No - all boats at EYC have to be out of the water by November something or other. that was actually from the caption contest at that other sailing forum where they aren't to fond of our slow winnebagos.
D. Wolff
DPO C25 Hull 401
Currently Sailing "Champagne and Ripple" 1982 O'day 30


Chief Measurer 2002-2006
Vice-commodore 2007
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