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[rwdsr]

Isn't it amazing?  Sailing on one Saturday, and snowbound on the next!  I spent Saturday and Sunday inside the house, and only got out of my pj's once to go clear sections of the walk.  My little Sidewinder is buried in a snowdrift in the back yard and the blue in the 16's hull makes a pretty contrast against the white snow.  Anyway, got a lot of things inside done that I had been putting off, and finally got the main home computer working again.  So the weekend wasn't a total loss.  Now, on to spring!!!!

[kickingbug1]

   yeah buddy i saw where you were up to your waist in snow. that bugger just missed us. one more month (hopefully) and we will see the light at the end of the tunnel. i hear feb is supposed to be pretty white. ill probably head to a little powerplant lake on wednesday, gotta get on some kind of water. hate to think of joyce marie with snow up to her butt. see at the rendezvous

[Craig Weis]

43 more days till spring.

[Salty19]

Even if the temps got to 70 tomorrow, the water here is still frozen solid. Although I am starting to see some ice melt on the local rivers and little pond by work. That won't last I'm sure as Feb is generally the harshest month.

Was up at Lake Erie (Port Clinton) this weekend.  Lake Erie and Sandusky Bay are one big nasty iceberg!  Was pretty cool to see all the boats on the hard...even saw a Flicka!

[rwdsr]

Family took a trip to Port Clinton once, took the ferry out to Kelly's Island and camped for a couple of days.  I'd like to go back up now and sail around all those islands.  Just one time I'd like to get aboard a Flicka.

[kahpho]

I've been trying to focus on the up side. Snowpack levels went waay up in the last couple weeks. Bodes well for lake levels this year Things weren't looking so rosy not long ago, the nearest reservoir here was down to 13% of full pool now up to 47% and the melt isn't started yet

Come on spring!!

mel

[Craig Weis]

Salty19 and other Port Clintonites. Keep your eyes peeled for a 30 foot red hull Nonsuch. That boat was sailed to Port Clinton late last fall, the skipper had to give up this boat to his daughter because of health reasons. So she'll be sailing around there I'm sure.

We lived in Sylvania, Ohio and day tripped to P-Clinton a few times. Look familiar?


skip.

[ka8uet]

I was born in Port Clinton, moved across the bay when my mom moved into a retirement community on the east side.  Now she's moved back out to Catawaba and left me marooned here on the wrong side of the bay!  Should have stuck to original plan, sell house, buy bigger boat to live aboard.  Now have to sell TWO houses, then proceed with original plan.  Pshaw!  Still have my CP23/3, though!

[rwdsr]

Well, It's too cold and snowy to sail, and I'm real tired of being housebound, so I went to New York City.  That's where I'm coming to you from today.  The snow here is knee deep to a tall giraffe, abd my GPS is a real piece of crap!  It has kept me lost for the biggest part of the day.  But all of that aside, I'm having a wonderful time wish you all were here.  Getting ready to order a New York Pizza with everything on it, best part of the whole day.  Seriously, I hear they really got pounded just a little south of us here.  I'm sure Bob23 could rfeally tell some tales................

[Bob23]

   Ah, yes- I could tell you some tales..some tall ones indeed. We did indeed get nailed with way too much snow, being south of the theoretical Mason-Dixon line. We've had so much snow, that I've lost track to which storm was which. But on to a subject much dearer to my heart- Pizza!
   I feel bad for all you southerners because we, up here in the Northeast, have the best pizza in the universe. This is a fact so there is no use in debating it. Just ask rwdsr as he munches down an authentic NY pie with the works.
   When I first moved down to South Jersey from North Jersey, I went out for a pie at a local (and thankfully now defunct) pizza shop. Tasted like American cheese and Campbells tomatoe soup on a crust. I knew then that I was not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Thankfully, we have improved and today, you show up around here and we'll go to LaGuardia's for an extra large thin crust. The real deal.
   Back to the snow. My 23 sits in hibernation in the back yard in her canvas pj's with snow clinging to the cover despite the 12 pitch in the understructure. We still have about 1 1/2 feet of snow on the ground and I just got done shoveling just a few days ago. I did take the opportunity to build an igloo, like I learned from some squareheads I met in Lake Placid while cross country skiing. It lasted a few days before it slowly caved in, like a time-release melt-down. 
   If we get even a day the pretends to be warm, I'm puttin' in the Alden Ocean Shell and going for a row! I'd put the Force 5 in and sail, but she's a wet boat and me and hyperthermia don't agree.
Bob23- waiting for spring and, man, could I go for a slice of pie and cold beer right about now!

[newt]

I was thinking about you Bob when it showed the snow concentrated in Jersey. Ours is starting to melt off, we had rain all day today. That is really wierd for this time of year here.  Ironically, our best Pizza here is called New York Pizza Deli (NYPD)

[rwdsr]

Well sir, we made it back from the big city all in one piece on Wednesday, and back to work on Thursday.  This weekend here was just gorgeous!  Mid 60's both days.  Got two full days working on the boat in, first i've been able to do since bringing her home at Thanksgiving.  Got the inside of the cabin gutted out and cleaned up.  I think I'm going to go with a finished hardwood deck for the floor of the cabin.  Had a bunch of left over 3/4 inch finished hardwood from doing our kitchen, and think that'll look really good.  I'll probably have to make it up as I go along, but I believe it should come out all right.  Today, I went to pick up my daughter's powered miter saw to help make the project go a little bit smoother, but ran out of time after church, so I built the keel guides on the trailer.  When I took the trailer over to pick the boat up at Thanksgiving, I had the keel guides too close together, and had to take them off, so we just set the boat down on the trailer and tied it down and we brought it home.  Well, when I took the boat out in January, I couldn't get the boat to line up exactly on the trailer and wound up wet to the waist in freezing water trying.  I finally got it on good enough to get it home, but still wasn't real thrilled with the way to boat sat on the trailer.  Yesterday, I jacked the boat up off the trailer and repositioned it.  That was nerve wracking let me tell you.  But, with each thing I accomplish, I gain a little more confidence.  The days are starting to get longer, and the weather (maybe) a little warmer, I might be able to spend an hour or two in the boat in the evenings.  Can anybody tell me how the wooden hatch in the cabin is supposed to line up to close?  The original hatch fell into 3 seperate pieces when I went to open the boat to look inside, so I cut a temporary one out of plywood using the dimensions of the old one but it doesn't look like it lines up right to me.