Dave
A sad day no doubt. I have 2 more weeks. May play hookie tomorrow late afternoon and do a little late afternoon/early evening sail. I am lucky that my marine keep water going into mid-december - so winterizing the beast is doable, although I really want to wash/wax again before putting her away....
i tell you it seems like it has been windy in the northeast since LAST October. This summer there were very few light air days on Long Island Sound - usually summers on the sound are usually 5 knots or so. So far this fall the winds have been strong - with the past 2 weekends having winds of consistently 15-20 knots. Makes you wonder...
Do you have a winter cover? I had gotten 2 quotes for winter covers - the kind that drape over the boom - about $1200-1300 for a winter cover. Was going to pull the trigger but it seems like such a waste of money...not sure if I am going to keep the stick up this year - I had double checked everything when I stepped the mast this year - all is fine except my profurl wrap stop must have loosened somewhat - or I mounted it wrong and it's not set correctly....plus I would like to get a new port shroud (got a new stbd shroud 2 years ago) and the lowers don't appear the original.
Now you can relax!
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--- In s227classassociation@..., "uswa174" <uswa174@...> wrote:
Sometimes (well, not TOO often) I wish I lived down south somewheres where the sailing season is longer...Why? Well, I hauled my boat out today. The marina turns off the water this coming Monday, just in case of an early freeze, and closes for good on Nov. 1. The water level has been dropping over the past few weeks (not much rain lately), but the level was very low in the yacht basin this morning, in spite of the brisk WNW winds for the last 24 hours, and small craft advisories. Normally, the water level would rise under those conditions, given the 330 mile fetch down Lake Michigan. I arrived at the marina to see about half of the slips already vacated. I stepped DOWN to my boat this morning off the finger pier. Uh-oh, sez me. Gulp! Would there be enough water under the hoist, or would the day become..."interesting?" After backing out of my slip, making my way out of the yacht basin, and negotiating the drawbridge (made it on the button for the bridge lift), I slowly motored up to the hoist bay. My depth sounder read 4.0 feet under the keel, that is until I made my turn toward the bay. 3.0.....2.5.....2.0....1.5....1.0....0.5.....uh, oh sez me....beep, beep, beep, sez the low water alarm (shut up, you SOB, sez me, as I hit the silence button)....0.3...0.2...0.1...0.1...beep, beep, beep, and lasso the cleat. Made it with 1.2 inches to spare under the keel. Crikey! It was about 55 degrees outside, but I was sweating like it was August 1st. After that, all was well. The countdown to Spring has begun!
