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Seattle Boat Show Starts Tomorrow
And runs through a week from Saturday, (Feb 3).As per the last few years, one ticket provides admission to both
locations, the "indoor" show at Qwest Field and the "afloat" show at
Chandler's Cove. If you want to see the entire show in one day, start early at the
floating portion of the
show- it opens and closes earlier than the indoor portion. Free transportation between venues. I'll be staffing a booth and presenting four seminars, so there's even
a small chance
you might run into me....but if you can avoid that, you'll probably
enjoy the show! :-) |
Chuck
Jan 24
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| Why you don't boat? East coast rainy and humid crappy weather = summer.
Winter = frozen and boats on hte hard. |
Calif
Jan 25
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| Not that many. But if there are any people who disliked Florida enough
to move away they wouldn't find a more opposite place to go than the
Pacific NW.
Geographically, culturally, and politically of course, in addition to
the dramatic differences in weather and skin cancer rates. Old folks
with bad joints like to move to warm climates, so AZ and FLA get a lot
of migration of senior citizens from northern states. Depending entirely on the type of boating one likes to do, some would
feel that boating could be described as "better" in one corner of the
country than the other- but there is no doubt that a typical day on the
boat will be very different
in the two environments. Not that many bikinis up this way- but hey, most of us take our
sweaters and jackets off for at least a few weeks after the 4th of
July. :-) |
Chuck
Jan 24
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| D'oh. Please, Bilious Bill. I am not saying that you and ChuckieDot
don't live in nice areas of the country. You do. I wouldn't mind living
along the coast north of San Francisco myself. I'm just saying that
where the two of you live, the ocean water is cold, and even in the
summer, it's not really bathing suit weather. I prefer warm ocean/bay
waters and bathing suit weather for my boating pleasure. Hell, where I
grew up in New England, the boating summers are more pleasant than what
you have. We could actually swim in the ocean in June, July, August and
most of September without our testicles receding deep into our bodies, eh. Oh, we're not overly rainy here in the spring, summer and fall. Nor are
we infected with earthquakes, drought, firestorms, lice, or slaying of
the first born, as you are. |
Harry
Jan 25
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| Since he lives on the East Coast and it is rainy and humid for most of
the summer, is the reason he never boats. Now if you want to buy a
really nice Parker, with next to 0 hours, I know someone who is trying
to sell it. |
Reginald
Jan 25
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| Nope, you live in a place affected by humidity, hurricanes, and will go away
when the big landslide in the Canary Islands occurs. And since we are
considered sub-desert, we do not get a lot of rain. Drought because we have
too many people moving here from cold, humid lands. First born slaying? I
think that was in a more religious region. |
Calif
Jan 25
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| No question, but a different kind of scenery. Maine and the Pacific
North Wet both have lots of unspoiled rocky little coves with trees
and mountains extending down to the shore. It's great cruising but
too cold much of the time. |
Wayne.B
Jan 25
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| Different, indeed, but beautiful all the same. The last time we were in Maine, I jumped in for a swim. I jumped right
out. I knew it was going to be cold, but holy crap! This was in July,
too. As a really little kid, I used to swim off of Revere Beach in
Massachusetts, and I remember that water as being very cold, but the
Maine water was beyond my limit. |
Harry
Jan 25
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| Swimming off Revere Beach was problematic what with all the Baby Ruths
floating on the water during those days. :>) |
Short
Jan 25
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| Decisions, decisions...which boat show to attend, Seattle or Miami. Seattle: 45F, lousy weather, water too cold to swim. Miami: 80F, bright blue skies, swimsuits, warm water. |
Harry
Jan 24
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We denizens of the rain forest sure do envy that Miami lifestyle,
sprinting from air-conditioned house to air-conditioned car to
air-conditioned office in order to earn $1500 a month to moor that
air-conditioned boat. Not to mention the toll that thse UV rays take on
paint, varnish, gelcoat, canvas, etc. Nothing like living in a sauna
24/7... And nothing at all like a good lungful of cool, crisp, invigorating
ocean air, boating just below the snowline of mountaintop "islands"
just north a bit, and
scores of interesting destinations and anchorages scattered around our
protected inland sea. I'm sure that people who live and boat in Florida find it very
enjoyable. Sure *hope* they do, anyway. But different strokes for
different folks. I've been to Florida, several times. Nice enough
place, but I didn't find any particular reason I'd want to hurry back.
Naturally, Floridians who venture to this opposite corner of the lower
48 must find the surroundings equally strange. I'm glad I live here and
not there. (Some folks down FLA way are glad I live here and not there,
I'm sure). There are lots of people in FLA who wouldn't consider ever
living in the Pac NW, and they are entitled to their preference and
opinion. |
Chuck
Jan 24
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| South Florida is a wonderful place to visit in the cold winter months,
but I couldn't live there year-around because of the heat in the spring
and summer. I'll be at the Miami boat show next month for a day while
attending the February meetings usually held in the area. If I were heading back to Florida to live there again, I'd pick a spot
no lower in latitude than St. Augustine. The summers along the Atlantic
Coast are warm, with bearable humidity, the spring and fall are
delightful, and the winter is short and not bad at all. There were many
bright sunny days in December, January and February in NE Florida when I
was able to get out and fish the ICW and the inlets. The hypothermic boating you have up in Seattle is not something I'd enjoy. |
Harry
Jan 24
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| Maybe the Snowbirds have it right.
May til October best spent up around the 45 lat but Nov-April would be more
enjoyable well below that Mason Dixon line. |
Don
Jan 24
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| Explains why the cabin and cockpit heaters were high on the list on
Cruis'n Rulz!.
JR Harry Krause wrote: > The hypothermic boating you have up in Seattle is not something I'd enjoy. |
JR
Jan 24
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| I'm sure. Pleasure boating in crappy weather is not on my list of fun
activities. |
Harry
Jan 24
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| Even if I had an enclosed cockpit, the last thing I would ever consider is
taking the boat out in cold and/or rainy weather. Perhaps my opinion would change if I lived in the Seattle area as it looks
like a great place to cruise. |
JimH
Jan 24
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| It never rains on the Chesapeake Bay. There is nothing on the east coast south of Maine that comes close to
Chuck's boating area for beautiful scenery. |
JohnH
Jan 24
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| http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth/page1.htm
Click on a few of the "Boat Pics" to see just how beautiful it is.
JR
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JR
Jan 24
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| That's true, but just like Maine it is too darn cold much of the time.
We spent 5 weeks cruising Maine during the summer of 2005 and by the
end of August it was definitely time to be heading south again. I have several neighbors here in SWFL who moved from Seattle. How
many folks in Seattle have neighbors who moved there from FL? |
Wayne.B
Jan 24
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| Both of you are wrong. There are some absolute gorgeous, wild areas on
the East Coast that rival almost anything for natural beauty. The
unspoiled, unwalked upon forests around Talbot Island, Florida, for
example, with all manner of flora and fauna, deep blue skies with puffy
clouds, blue water, green water, pure white sandy beaches, surf crashing
on the shore...gorgeous. Doesn't look anything like Seattle, but it is
just as beautiful in its own right. Oh...and how many Hawaiian Tropic
contests are held on the beaches of Seattle? :>} |
Harry
Jan 24
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