Still waiting for Spring...

Bhacurly · Post by **Bhacurly** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:28 am

Well,

Yesterday Pam an I went out for a short sail after picking up the old main from the rigger (Don Yager... the new one should be done in a couple weeks!) and went to the boat to put it back on... Still have that dang leak tho!

So after racing out between flurries and getting the port-a-potty back in... decided to put the main back up after motoring out a ways and looking for Billy Goats...

Here's the rest of the story....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xTI0vFljVk

Billy

PS. makes the Florida Key's pict's look really really nice 'bout now!

CaptainScott · Post by **CaptainScott** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:56 am

NIce video Billy! LOL!

Funny too.
Sunday afternoon was kind of nice so I stripped my bike for the windshield, deflecters, and soft lowers. You know, all the protective stuff from the weather!. Rode to work Monday between flurries. NO worries nothing serious. Tuesday was kind of nice albeit cold and I had to work from 10:00 to midnight on a project. I left at midnight on the bike smiling. It was 30 degrees but clear! 8 miles into my 13 mile commute I saw what looked like fog so I kept the 75mph speed on. Much to my demise it was heavy HARD hail!! OMG! It was all I could to get my 750lb motorcycle down to 40mph! The pellets left welts on my thighs! Today they look and feel sunburned! Sheesh! That'll teach me to challenge Mother nature!!

So far this spring we have had two days over 55 degrees. It has been a very wet and cold spring.

Scott

hp18carr · Post by **hp18carr** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 1:55 pm

Some people will sail in any type of weather... just joking.

It beats backyard sailing any day.

Terrence
Wilmington N.C.
Chrysler 26' 1980
Pandora (for now)

Beady · Post by **Beady** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 4:34 pm

Great video so much for global warming.

skyking · Post by **skyking** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 4:36 pm

Its been raining here all year...as if we didnt get enough snow, now its coming in the other form..

..Think I may build an ARK

Alanhod · Post by **Alanhod** » Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:50 pm

Nice looking video there Bill! I've gone out a few times on Pugets Sound on days like that in late 2008 and early 2009. Coast Gaurd even came out to check on my once as my radio was off and they wanted to see that I was okay. I was doing great! Oh and then turned my radio on so the Coast Gaurd could call me.

69Shark wrote:I left at midnight on the bike smiling. It was 30 degrees but clear! 8 miles into my 13 mile commute I saw what looked like fog so I kept the 75mph speed on. Much to my demise it was heavy HARD hail!! OMG! It was all I could to get my 750lb motorcycle down to 40mph! The pellets left welts on my thighs! Today they look and feel sunburned! Sheesh! That'll teach me to challenge Mother nature!!

Oh man you were on your bike in that!

My class gets out at 11:00 PM and we had about an inch deep of 1/4 sized hail pellets covering the ground. It was like driving on ice and I was in a car. On a bike that must have been real ugly!

Thanks
Alan

sharps4590 · Post by **sharps4590** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:10 am

I admire your dedication. Too much for this fair weather sailor!!!

lecker68 · Post by **lecker68** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:13 am

I have done it thanks for posting and the enthusiasm.

Capt. Bondo · Post by **Capt. Bondo** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 8:55 am

SPRING...HA

We had 3 inches of snow last Saturday and another couple this morning.
At least it's melting, and the flood water is going down, and I don't have much to do to get H:)ppy Place ready.

TravisJ · Post by **TravisJ** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:29 am

Yikes! It was like 94F here yesterday before the storms hit. It's supposed to be 77F today. I'm glad I don't live any further north, lol.

Franklinp40 · Post by **Franklinp40** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:17 pm

We didn't get spring here went straight to summer.

Franklinp40 · Post by **Franklinp40** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:20 pm

Hey, what are those little access ports for below the mast catcher thing. Love my tech lingo!

thepartydog · Post by **thepartydog** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:10 pm

Franklin,

Head north a little to "the other part of Florida". We're have spring here every year.

Bhacurly · Post by **Bhacurly** » Wed Apr 20, 2011 8:29 pm

Think we all agree...

Captn Scott is a wee bit offf for riding his cycle into a hailstrom! Glad all he got was a few welts in that ride

Ya I put in some inspection ports to access the only screws I didn't pull off years ago... I put in the larger ones and it helped with rebedding the backstay adjustment hardware and mast support when it's down... All that is on the top inside of the transom and hard to tighten if they get loose, which all were in my case...

EmergencyExit · Post by **EmergencyExit** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 8:00 am

88 degrees and a chance of afternoon thunderstorms today..

sauerleigh · Post by **sauerleigh** » Thu Apr 21, 2011 4:44 pm

This is probably not a good sign. I was down at the lake this evening installing the new outboard bracket I made for REDUX. Gulls are always around and a few Canadian geese and some unusual goose like bird, could be Cormorants, anyway large flocks of these long bodied, short wingspan birds started forming, heading south.

Bhacurly · Post by **Bhacurly** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 9:39 am

YAY!!

Looks like a nice forecast for the weekend!!! I'm off work and it may hit 61 on Easter Sunday!!

WOO HOO! Very good after another day of snow showers and hail yesterday

which is supposed to return on Monday...

skyking · Post by **skyking** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 5:24 pm

Still freaakin raining here...

Its the worst its been in years..

Hey Alan...Nothing bad from Japan getting up your way I hope??

Tim

Alanhod · Post by **Alanhod** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:01 pm

skyking wrote:Still freaakin raining here...

Its the worst its been in years..

Hey Alan...Nothing bad from Japan getting up your way I hope??

Tim

I've not been out the beaches on the coast but I've heard in the news stuff has been showing up on the coastline. Mostly light stuff like plastics Styrofoam, things like that. No houses have washed up yet though I hear they are on there way and breaking up as the come. I guess the Ocean Going Traffic is have real issues with the debris between Japan and here. The stuff sit so low in the water they do not show up on radar at all. You might have the peak of a roof out of the water a foot or two and a 2 story home sitting under the water. I've heard of several ships getting prop- damage and on those big boys that is hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix. Plus getting towed.

It's whole villages and towns of stuff headed this way I hear. And as for disasters we're the lucky ones on this deal all we are going to get is the wreckage. Those poor folks, wow what a nightmare on top of a nightmare.

As for radiation, could be, don't really know... I've always got the twinkle in my eye.

Back when I was a kid when Nukes were still tested out in the pacific or the USSR or China, we would get fallout blowing over about 1 to 2 weeks after the blast. The news would say stuff like stay inside for the next few days. School would keep us in from recess, stuff like that. Yea, the 1960's were a real blast.

Thanks
Alan

lecker68 · Post by **lecker68** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:11 pm

We had snow and sleet this morning. Is it ever going to end?

mcrandall · Post by **mcrandall** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:17 pm

Lots of rain last night, but a real nice day today. Sunny and mis 50s. Hope that, and not the crap out of St Louis, is on the way to you Lyle!

lecker68 · Post by **lecker68** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:19 pm

I hope not that crap can stay away.

sharps4590 · Post by **sharps4590** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:05 am

Japan is washing up on the shores of Washington? Wow....here in the Ozarks things like that cross our mind. The world really isn't that big, is it. Those folks over there have taken a beating.

Just rain here....and rain...and rain. Fortunately for us all the bad stuff has gone either north or south of us. St. Louis around Lambert is a mess. Of all the weird things to happen we had a tornado go through the northern part of Rolla on last New Years Day. Freaky.