I just can't believe it...
I just can't believe it...
I live in SW Wisconsin. Two weeks ago, I pulled my boat out of storage. The day before yesterday, I was sitting on top of my boat working on a project with my jacket off. The warm sun was beating down, all the snow was gone - life was good. POW - six inches of snow last night and this morning. Guess what, only my county. I guess I should have known better.
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Y.B.Normal
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Re: I just can't believe it...
That's the way this Winter has been in Wisconsin. Up here in NE WI we had a light snow year; most of the storms went North or South. We're only supposed to get less than an inch or so from this storm.
I don't uncover my boat til mid-April.
Where do you sail your boat?
I don't uncover my boat til mid-April.
Where do you sail your boat?
- dlandersson
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Re: I just can't believe it...
Getting a couple of inches in Chicago today.
jhastie wrote:I live in SW Wisconsin. Two weeks ago, I pulled my boat out of storage. The day before yesterday, I was sitting on top of my boat working on a project with my jacket off. The warm sun was beating down, all the snow was gone - life was good. POW - six inches of snow last night and this morning. Guess what, only my county. I guess I should have known better.
Re: I just can't believe it...
I had mine in the water yesterday testing out this years additions/upgrades.
Sorry.
Sorry.
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YB -
Sometime inland lakes and sometimes the Great Lakes. I will be in Door County in June.
Sometime inland lakes and sometimes the Great Lakes. I will be in Door County in June.
- mrron_tx
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Re: I just can't believe it...
I just returned from picking up My Wife down in Houston.... She's been gone for two weeks.....it's rained nearly every day and been cool...... Today...80 and beautiful sunshine with a light breeze
Oh well
Ron.
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Y.B.Normal
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I was there this last Thurs-Sat.jhastie wrote: Door County i
The ice shoves off Door Bluff County Park North of Ellison Bay were spectacular. 25-35' tall and pushing up against the cliff at the point.
I keep my 26M on Lake Winnebago at Neenah.
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Y.B.Normal
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[quote="dlandersson"]Getting a couple of inches in Chicago today.
Hey, better you than me.
The sun is out up here.

Hey, better you than me.
- Russ
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Re: I just can't believe it...
Been in the 60s here. Haven't seen snow in a while. Tempted to pull the cover off and clean her up, however I know it's too soon.
Enjoy the breaks when you get them.
Enjoy the breaks when you get them.
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Re: I just can't believe it...
The local lake is bone-dry: the Corps of Engineers have decided to play it safe in light of the past several wet summers and emptied it to a ridiculous degree. Unless we have the fabled April showers, I don't foresee much sailing in the area.
Damn
Damn
- dlandersson
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Put wheels on it?
March wrote:The local lake is bone-dry: the Corps of Engineers have decided to play it safe in light of the past several wet summers and emptied it to a ridiculous degree. Unless we have the fabled April showers, I don't foresee much sailing in the area.
Damn
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I haven't even been to our lake, but they have done the same here. We have had a lot of snow pack and they get afraid of flooding and draw it down so there is a place for all that melt to go.March wrote:The local lake is bone-dry: the Corps of Engineers have decided to play it safe in light of the past several wet summers and emptied it to a ridiculous degree. Unless we have the fabled April showers, I don't foresee much sailing in the area.
Damn
Here is what we found last year when we went to put our boat in the slip. 2 weeks later it was full.

- March
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Put wheels on it?diandersson wrote:
I knew this was coming.March wrote:
The local lake is bone-dry: the Corps of Engineers have decided to play it safe in light of the past several wet summers and emptied it to a ridiculous degree. Unless we have the fabled April showers, I don't foresee much sailing in the area.
Damn
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March,
Do you sail any of Iowa's great Lakes? Saylorville Red Rock, Rathbun. Our daughter lives in Ankeny so I trailer to all three.
Do you sail any of Iowa's great Lakes? Saylorville Red Rock, Rathbun. Our daughter lives in Ankeny so I trailer to all three.
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You guys could make a fortune selling all that water to people here in California. We got no water but we are sailing every day of the year in the ocean. I wonder why they don't just run a pipeline along the 94 freeway to Interstate 15 south? The folks in Wisconsin and the Dakotas and Minn could all get rich selling water to California in the pipeline when there is a drought and when there is not a drought we can send wine and cheese and hot air back up the pipe to you guys to help with the cold winters. (We have a lot of hot air - a pipe from Sacramento could heat up the entire east coast for free for centuries).
Oh well, no big deal - I already tore out the lawn in the front AND the backyard so I don't use any water at all now (beer is cheaper anyway).
I hope you guys get some warm weather soon. And what's that white stuff all about? Is that the global warming stuff they talk about all the time now on TV? Is that why there is no water?
Are the dinosaurs coming back?
Oh well, no big deal - I already tore out the lawn in the front AND the backyard so I don't use any water at all now (beer is cheaper anyway).
I hope you guys get some warm weather soon. And what's that white stuff all about? Is that the global warming stuff they talk about all the time now on TV? Is that why there is no water?
Are the dinosaurs coming back?
