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25-02-2007, 08:42
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running down a dream
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Florida
Boat: cape dory 30 MKII
Posts: 3,235
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to everyone in blizzarrd country
today in north florida is 72 degrees and sunny with 10 to 15 knots out of the south.  we kicked old man winter's butt!! come on down and thaw out and look at some waterfront property .. park your boat in the backyard. yahoo.
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some of the best times of my life were spent on a boat. it just took a long time to realize it.
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25-02-2007, 08:49
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hayes, VA
Boat: Gozzard 36
Posts: 8,700
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You can keep Florida. I just got back from 13 degrees lattitude. And it was 85 degrees. They don't ever get as cold as 72 degrees down there.
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Paul Blais
s/v Bright Eyes Gozzard 36
37 15.7 N 76 28.9 W
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25-02-2007, 08:57
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running down a dream
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Florida
Boat: cape dory 30 MKII
Posts: 3,235
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i'll keep Florida for now. but there is a lot of difference between 13 and 30 degrees latitude. my brother lives in St. Thomas and they break out their blankets when the temp falls below 70.
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some of the best times of my life were spent on a boat. it just took a long time to realize it.
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25-02-2007, 09:06
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: St Catharines ON, CAN
Boat: Irwin 37 CC ketch 'Ta-Keel-Ah'
Posts: 396
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I'll be in Key West the week of March 10 with my family. Any members that want to have a cool one with me who are there, let me know.
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Randy Benoit
I37CC 'Ta-Keel-Ah'
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25-02-2007, 14:14
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Senior Cruiser

Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Minneapolis MN
Boat: Searunner 40 Trimaran, Siruis 22 mono, 16 foot MFG daysailor
Posts: 515
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I just finished shoveling a foot of snow and you know I would still rather live here in Minnesota than that giant strip mall they call Florida. It is a good example of developement gone amuck. Yuk! There are so many better places to go where it is warm year round. I will be heading to Hilo Hawaii at the end of march to spend a few weeks with relatives and do some fishing. I will keep my distance from the Kona coast though as big resort developements don't spin my crank. May spend some time on the North Shore of Oahu with another cousin.
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25-02-2007, 14:20
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Boat: Mirage 27 in Toronto; Wright 10 in Auckland
Posts: 773
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Was in Orlando last week. 18 C Max, with a wind advisory (can't give you knots, I fear.)
And not only was it coolish, but it was Orlando. In the immortal words of Gertrude Stein: "there's no there there."
Connemara
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26-02-2007, 08:31
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin
Boat: 1976 Oday 27' Booty Call
Posts: 141
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blizzard country
Thanks Gonesail! Appreciate the motivation and support! *darn *&@!#()#U_)@ LOL (just kidding) at least it's good to know others are not as miserable as us here in the Great Lakes! Good fun ribbing and joking aside too!
My wife is insisting we move to either Hawaii or Florida .....Will probably be a live aboard on a bigger boat.
Well, time to prepare for the next snow storm, but dream of summer months here in Green Bay, WI
Mark
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26-02-2007, 09:14
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Currently, cruise is over and back in Solomons MD, USA
Boat: Voyage/Maxim 380 - Makai
Posts: 543
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I think the Puerto Rico is to far north and Virgina....is well, cold! I miss Bonaire and the Ven out islands. Just 4 1/2 more years and we are gone again forever. No more snow!
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Captain Bil formerly of sv Makai -- KI4TMM
The hunt for the next boat begins.
https://www.sv-makai.com
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26-02-2007, 12:34
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Currently, cruise is over and back in Solomons MD, USA
Boat: Voyage/Maxim 380 - Makai
Posts: 543
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That is why...
That is why I a from Wisconsin....
And why I want to be from Virginia.......
My aching back
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Captain Bil formerly of sv Makai -- KI4TMM
The hunt for the next boat begins.
https://www.sv-makai.com
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26-02-2007, 13:21
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Lake Champlain, Vermont
Boat: Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34 - "Raven"
Posts: 213
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Rust
I would still rather live here in Minnesota than that giant strip mall they call Florida. It is a good example of developement gone amuck.
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Whenever I visit Florida, I am filled with a mixture of both awe and anger. What began as a very unique peninsula and some of the most remarkable ecosystems on the planet has now become perhaps the greatest ecological tragedy the United States has known. I have hiked/paddled/sailed into some of the remaining vestiges of that incredible landscape. I can't help but marvel at what the landscape must have looked like a few hundred years ago.
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Kevin Rose
Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34 - Raven
Burlington, Vermont
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26-02-2007, 14:33
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֍֎֍֎֍֎֍֎֍֎
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 15,136
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Florida?
Bugs and swamps and rats and heat and humidity and alligators, relieved by a couple of months of nice weather. Not to mention the crazy mix of drivers and the roads.
No thanks, not for me. It would still be an empty swamp if folks didn't have air conditioning.
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26-02-2007, 14:36
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Marathon, Florida
Boat: Cape Dory 28, "Night Wind"
Posts: 353
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Raven,
When you look at what's happened here, you can't help but think that people have learned a lesson and that it will get better ... sadly, that's not true. I'm living in the Keys right now (and enjoying it immensely) simply because 10 years from now ... only millionaires will be able to do this. For me, it was a "now or never" situation.
Bob
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26-02-2007, 15:42
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Lake Champlain, Vermont
Boat: Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34 - "Raven"
Posts: 213
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wahoo Sails
Raven,
When you look at what's happened here, you can't help but think that people have learned a lesson and that it will get better ... sadly, that's not true. I'm living in the Keys right now (and enjoying it immensely) simply because 10 years from now ... only millionaires will be able to do this. For me, it was a "now or never" situation.
Bob
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Bob,
It has been interesting to see what has happened to the Keys in just the past couple of decades. Ya gotta wonder, though. With changes coming from many fronts, will the millionaires hold dominion in 10 years? Or will the sea?
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Kevin Rose
Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34 - Raven
Burlington, Vermont
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26-02-2007, 15:46
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2007
Boat: 1973 Morgan 36T
Posts: 808
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I hope the sea takes it back.
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