This one is tempting

[brackish]

After hearing about all you folks discussing last sails and pulling out for the winter and wondering about that concept, this one is very tempting.  Depends on the schedules of those three sons and their wives/kids who will all be coming to our house for Christmas:

http://bbs.trailersailor.com/forums/tsbbcomp/trailersailor/index.cgi/read/764437

This is a beautiful sailing area.  Be nice to tow down there and leave it for the rest of the winter.

[rsahlender]

Interesting indeed. Thanks brackish. I guess I should start paying attention to trailersailer.

I would love to do something like this but think I best spend a little time getting to know my "new" CP16 before attempting anything like it. Maybe new years 2012?

It is too cold on the Chesapeake over New Years for me but the local sail club here at Lake Nockamixon has plans for several similar sounding trips around the Chesapeake next season. The big difference being to charter a couple of 35s or larger rather than have everyone trailer down. This also sounds interesting enough to me that I'll probably sign up for one of them but I think I rather like the idea of trailering my Compac to something like this better than chartering even if it is a 4 hour drive. I am particularly interested to learn how to handle the Compac on the "big" bay as opposed to the "small" inland lake.   

Rich

[HideAway]

Y all realize its REAL cold in Pensacola that time of year right? 

[brackish]

Y all realize its REAL cold in Pensacola that time of year right?  

Cold is relative.  I used to live in Gulfport (the other one in Mississippi) which is about the same.  It can be perfect or I remember the New Years Eve that it snowed.

Rich you might consider BEER first week in June.  Essentially the same course and format.  Last year there were over fifty boats participating.  I plan to do it again in 2011.

Had a great sail today.  Temperature about seventy with winds 15-20 out of the south.  Ran up lake about four miles wing and wing, both sails reefed.  Just perfect.  Then an exciting session to weather coming back, still reefed.  Took quite a bit longer coming back.

[curtisv]

Y all realize its REAL cold in Pensacola that time of year right? 

The web site claims "Weather should get to a high of 60 during the day and a low of 40 degrees at night ...".

That is is September weather here.  At night it can go down to 50 in August on Nantucket Sound.

You can get a relatively inexpensive zero degree (plus or minus) sleeping bag for a reasonable price online at campmore.com.  There are quite a few in the $50-$100 range rated at zero.  Quite a few in the $300-$500 range too but on a boat goose down is bad (stays wet when it gets wet)and ultra low weight has no advantage.  Buy a mummy bag and a fleece mummy bag liner (for about $20) and you are ready for anything from zero to 70s.

Sleeping in a bag rated for 20-30 degrees colder than it is outside is cozy to the point of being too hot.  Over about 35 I unzip the bag half way.  If its over 50 degrees out I use the bag as a blanket.  Over 60 and I use a fleece bag liner.  A bag rated for zero is great for getting rid of the chills (or hypothermia).

In Northeast frostbite sailing you really can get frostbite.  See http://windcheckmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=227&Itemid=432.  Dry suits required.  The Cape Cod Frosty sailors are particularly nuts.  I'm not keen on trying this.

Curtis

BTW- Gale warnings tonight.  Still warm for this time of year.  I won't be doing any sailing until at least May or June.

[rsahlender]

Rich you might consider BEER first week in June.  Essentially the same course and format.  Last year there were over fifty boats participating.  I plan to do it again in 2011.

brackish... I am not familiar with BEER and tried a google with various sailing terms and "June" and anything else I could think of. Google returns lots of hits about micro breweries and beer making supplies... do you have a link that I can check out for BEER? Thanks.

Rich

[brackish]

Rich you might consider BEER first week in June.  Essentially the same course and format.  Last year there were over fifty boats participating.  I plan to do it again in 2011.

brackish... I am not familiar with BEER and tried a google with various sailing terms and "June" and anything else I could think of. Google returns lots of hits about micro breweries and beer making supplies... do you have a link that I can check out for BEER? Thanks.

Rich

This post on the CPYOA has a link to the official site and a couple of links to various picture galleries that folks posted.

http://cpyoa.geekworkshosting.com/forum/index.php?topic=3424.0

The 2010 route was changed because of potential anchorage closures due to the oil spill.  It would normally include sailboat cove.

[newt]

Y all realize its REAL cold in Pensacola that time of year right? 

Yesterday's high was 30. The day before that was 26 (that was high)
Want to trade???

[Bob23]

Sorry. The words "real cold" and "Pensacola" don't deserve to be used in the same sentence.
I had "real cold" defined for me snow camping and cross county skiing at Lake Placid a few years ago. How 'bout 19 below and sleeping in an unheated lean-to? Now, even for a cold weather guy such as yours truly, that was cold!
Bob23

[jimyoung]

 "How 'bout 19 below and sleeping in an unheated lean-to?"

That is just extreme! Man was not built to live in that kind of weather......  but that is from someone who lives in south Florida.  Spent Feb. in Cadillac,  MI on a job once and thought that I would not survive that. From work to hotel for four weeks and the block of snow that I knocked off my shoe at the airport when I picked up the rental car was still there when I turned it in!

Give me the Keys, a tiki hut with a rum drink, and bare foot sunsets in December anytime but I do admire you hearty northerners.

Capt'n Jim

[ssullivan]

"How 'bout 19 below and sleeping in an unheated lean-to?"

That is just extreme! Man was not built to live in that kind of weather......  but that is from someone who lives in south Florida.  Spent Feb. in Cadillac,  MI on a job once and thought that I would not survive that. From work to hotel for four weeks and the block of snow that I knocked off my shoe at the airport when I picked up the rental car was still there when I turned it in!

Give me the Keys, a tiki hut with a rum drink, and bare foot sunsets in December anytime but I do admire you hearty northerners.

Capt'n Jim

10 4 buddy

[newt]

Another 5 inches today. Man this is getting old fast