Let the armchair/sailboat racing begin!

Capt. Bondo · Post by **Capt. Bondo** » Fri Dec 31, 2010 9:05 am

These folks may sail around the world by the time the ice breaks up on the St. Croix River.

http://www.barcelonaworldrace.org/en/
This is the type of stuff that helps me get through the winter.

Capt. Bondo · Post by **Capt. Bondo** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:02 pm

OK what have you done in the last 93 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes and 36 seconds?

Capt. Bondo · Post by **Capt. Bondo** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:05 pm

FYI the ice is just breaking up on the St.Croix today

Flooding to crest this Friday

lecker68 · Post by **lecker68** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:17 pm

I agree Capt Bondo I have a hard time finding anything sailing on youtube that I have not seen at least once. from sailing the Pacific to trans Atlantic doing the ditch and circumnavigation.

bryan · Post by **bryan** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:52 pm

Hey Bondo, thanks much for the St. Croix status report! I've been trying to catch any news of the ice and water levels. How is the water level? Anything like how high it was last September? When do you think you'll splash your boat this year?

Actually bought some stuff for the boat today and have been working on some fix up projects recently.

I too spent the winter scouring Youtube for sailing vids...that and literally looking through every page of the West Marine catalog that I got in the mail a couple of months ago

sharps4590 · Post by **sharps4590** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:18 am

Wow...I spent the winter in the woods, hunting and cutting firewood, cross country skiing, made a trip to Wisconsin with my two adult sons and skied for 4 days, read about 10 good books, worked on my sports cars, played music in and out of church, tied flys, fished for winter trout, cast bullets, reloaded ammo, refinished a pair of classic wooden cross country skis, restored a vintge bamboo fly rod and sulked...wishing it were warm enough to sail!

Today I uncover the little Widgeon and may have it on the water later in the week.