Thinking of Spring!
- Thread starter Bolo
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Bolo
Contributing Partner
They weren’t in the budget.
Bolo
Contributing Partner
Lucky you! My splash date is around April 1st. Boat is on the hard for some hull maintenance and a good polishing. Time seems to slow to a crawl for me during February.
Bolo
Contributing Partner
Looking at your handle "Stuphoto" are you a photographer? I'm a retired commercial/industrial photographer and have worked in conditions that were either too un-godly cold or hot in my career. Just curious.
I shoot mostly Large Format Bob, my personal favorite being 5x7.
However my favorite personal camera is a beautiful Kodak 2d 8x10
I am also a retired ice road trucker, which still brings me north every winter.
This year I am a winter road marshall in one of the diamond mines.
However my favorite personal camera is a beautiful Kodak 2d 8x10
I am also a retired ice road trucker, which still brings me north every winter.
This year I am a winter road marshall in one of the diamond mines.
Bolo,
Your video brings back a lot of good memories of sailing the Chesapeake Bay. Thanks for the reminders.
I have no idea when my splash date is yet because I have to wait till Spring to get my winter projects started.
Mark "Souleman" Soule
Your video brings back a lot of good memories of sailing the Chesapeake Bay. Thanks for the reminders.
I have no idea when my splash date is yet because I have to wait till Spring to get my winter projects started.
Mark "Souleman" Soule
Bolo
Contributing Partner
I worked with an 8 x 10 view camera for years shooting small product and food for catalogs and magazines. Then 4 x 5 and then finally Hasselblad on the road traveling the country shooting for magazines and commercial clients. After that digital became available and everything changed. As far as ice and snow go….I have an allergy to both.
Teranodon
Member III
Why wait for Spring? I raced out of Annapolis for two years when I worked at the State Department. There was a "Jack Frost" series with special rules, like "one foot in the cockpit at all times". We would go around the buoys, tie up at the YC for hot rum drinks, then race again. Of course, this was a quarter-century ago.
Frank Langer
1984 Ericson 30+, Nanaimo, BC
I was out sailing for 6 days last week in our BC Gulf Islands. 
It was chilly, but I had my mustang suit and gloves to keep me warm. I like to keep the companionway open when at anchor, so it's no use trying to warm the cabin with a heater.
I had some great sailing, though a few days I had to wait at anchor for the fog to lift.
My wife declined my invitation, saying she'll wait for Spring.
I think it's good for my boat to run it regularly to keep everything working as it should. But I also take special care when it's colder out to move carefully, stay safe.
Frank
It was chilly, but I had my mustang suit and gloves to keep me warm. I like to keep the companionway open when at anchor, so it's no use trying to warm the cabin with a heater.
I had some great sailing, though a few days I had to wait at anchor for the fog to lift.
My wife declined my invitation, saying she'll wait for Spring.
I think it's good for my boat to run it regularly to keep everything working as it should. But I also take special care when it's colder out to move carefully, stay safe.
Frank
Shannon & Doran Jones
Member III
I was out sailing for 6 days last week in our BC Gulf Islands.
It was chilly, but I had my mustang suit and gloves to keep me warm. I like to keep the companionway open when at anchor, so it's no use trying to warm the cabin with a heater.
I had some great sailing, though a few days I had to wait at anchor for the fog to lift.
My wife declined my invitation, saying she'll wait for Spring.
I think it's good for my boat to run it regularly to keep everything working as it should. But I also take special care when it's colder out to move carefully, stay safe.
Frank
@Frank Langer we had a fantastic sail last week. Amazing weather. Perfect wind.
Prairie Schooner
Jeff & Donna, E35-3 purchased 7/21
I've got this bucket list wish of sailing in a snow storm. A friend told of doing just that in Frostbite sailing years ago. He said it was like being in a huge room full of telltales, that he'd been sailing for decades and the wind wasn't doing what he thought it was all those years.
Frank Langer
1984 Ericson 30+, Nanaimo, BC
When I lived in Alberta, Canada, with a different boat, we had to haul it in fall and launch in spring, as early as possible. One year I launched it in mid April, but half the lake was still frozen. My teenage son and I sailed along the edge of the ice, hearing the ice cracking sound, with large snow flurries falling gently as we sailed. Of course we were the only boat on the lake. We both have memories of it being quite magical. Now I live on the BC coast where I can sail year round.
Frank
Frank
Prairie Schooner
Jeff & Donna, E35-3 purchased 7/21
It was a balmy 45º in Rhode Island today so we ripped some more deck hardware off. With all the work we have to do, boating season seems like forever away. But I also feel spring breathing down my neck. As I tell my students, "Just keep moving the rock forward."
It was a pretty sunset.
Just an 11 second video, from my Maiden Voyage today.
It's actually my first time really sailing, and I had a quick lesson from a friend.
We did hit 5 knots, with just the main and jib.
I don't think it is too bad for a 25'
I believe they are still the original sails, and I will be ordering new ones soon.
I am having a few changes made while I am at it, taking advantage of my size and lowering the boom and increasing the size.
Heading off to work again tomorrow, and won't see my new toy until April.
It's actually my first time really sailing, and I had a quick lesson from a friend.
We did hit 5 knots, with just the main and jib.
I don't think it is too bad for a 25'
I believe they are still the original sails, and I will be ordering new ones soon.
I am having a few changes made while I am at it, taking advantage of my size and lowering the boom and increasing the size.
Heading off to work again tomorrow, and won't see my new toy until April.
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Chschaus
"Voila"
Digital really changed the commercial Photo industry, didn't it? Did studio product photography and processing for 30+ yrs my old Business partner longer than that. While we both adapted and transitioned to digital the entire industry just no longer was what we knew, as far as processing that is just gone. It was a blast while it lasted however.