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Jay Fitz	#1  Posted on 04/29/14 - 5:05 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 343 Comments: 0 Joined: 09/08/10	It occurred to me over this past weekend that I am two weeks away from putting the boat in. This time last year I was oiling, varnishing, cleaning, painting.... This year, I have yet to unwrap her. With cloudy, chilly, rainy weather in the NE I just have not yet felt the "urge". How's everyone else doing?
MarkTemplar	#2  Posted on 04/29/14 - 7:18 AM
Member Posts: 30 Comments: 0 Joined: 03/06/14	Rode motorcycle around Keuka and Canandaigua Lakes [Western New York] within last 10-days. Wind off those lakes stunned the body like stepping into a walk-in freezer.
Blackduck	#3  Posted on 04/29/14 - 8:32 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 519 Comments: 0 Joined: 02/25/06	Seems to be two weeks behind "normal"-feels like snow today-Yuk Walter Reynolds 1973 Boston Whaler 16 Nauset 90 HP Yamaha
wing15601	#4  Posted on 04/29/14 - 9:40 AM
Member Posts: 699 Comments: 0 Joined: 07/14/12	Much, much colder on Lake Michigan. Mark's remark about the freezer is right on spot. I winter in Ft. Myers and summer in St. Joseph, Michigan. It’s now about 12 years since I’ve joined this group. I gave my 1972 whaler to my daughter and sold the 17’. Bought an O’Day 28 sailboat and sailed on Lake Michigan. Yesterday I bought a 2005 130 Sport.
tedious	#5  Posted on 04/29/14 - 10:59 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 1072 Comments: 2 Joined: 09/07/08	It's global warming. Which, as we all know, is caused by Republicans.
Joe Kriz	#6  Posted on 04/29/14 - 11:07 AM
Site Owner Personal Page Personal Album Photo Albums Project Albums Posts: 11447 Comments: 452 Joined: 03/18/05	Supposed to be 90º this week and possible set a record high. On top of the drought we are already in here in California. And then Tornadoes throughout the South and up to Ohio. Hope everyone makes it through OK.
cnichols	#7  Posted on 04/29/14 - 12:26 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 14 Comments: 0 Joined: 11/05/12	Does anyone know a good link for average weather, or better yet, average water temps compared to prior years? I was just wondering today how the temperature might be impacting the migration of striped bass up the northeast coast but I couldn't find a good way to compare trends vs. prior years. p.s. let's not confuse weather with climate, or causation with denial
wing15601	#8  Posted on 04/29/14 - 1:19 PM
Member Posts: 699 Comments: 0 Joined: 07/14/12	At the end of the last ice age the Lake Michigan area was much colder than it is now so I guess it's good we weren't waiting back then for warmer weather to use our Whalers. Don't know why those cave men didn't do something about global warming that melted all the glaciers back then. I winter in Ft. Myers and summer in St. Joseph, Michigan. It’s now about 12 years since I’ve joined this group. I gave my 1972 whaler to my daughter and sold the 17’. Bought an O’Day 28 sailboat and sailed on Lake Michigan. Yesterday I bought a 2005 130 Sport.
awayland	#9  Posted on 04/29/14 - 1:37 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 160 Comments: 0 Joined: 04/30/09	I agree spring is way behind, I keep the boat in the garage, used it about 3 weeks ago on a 60 degree day, in the river chasing some holdover schoolies but no real concentration of migrating keepers yet. We haven't seen any herring either, water in the river 48-50 degrees and mid sound about 44 tops. We are usually killing them by now. Just poking around doing some shore fishing until the water temp hits 55. May try the Thames this weekend. 1970 custom 16 with 1999 Merc 2 stroke 90hp
Jay Fitz	#10  Posted on 04/29/14 - 3:42 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 343 Comments: 0 Joined: 09/08/10	Yeah, the water will take a bit longer to warm up, that's for sure.
jvz	#11  Posted on 04/29/14 - 5:10 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 215 Comments: 10 Joined: 03/16/07	Boating all year-round in Texas!
dgoodhue	#12  Posted on 04/29/14 - 5:34 PM
Member Posts: 278 Comments: 0 Joined: 10/04/05	tedious wrote: It's global warming. Which, as we all know, is caused by Republicans. All I know is there is a bunch of hot air coming out of Washington DC. Dave
WRufus	#13  Posted on 04/29/14 - 6:20 PM
Member Personal Page Posts: 73 Comments: 1 Joined: 01/15/13	Mark- Keuka and Canandaigua lakes...wow.. I went to school up there and raced 420s at hobart...more than once i was dunked in seneca lake in March with overpowering tundra gusts with water temps in the mid 30s.....you know your alive when that happens... 1989 Montauk 17' w/ F70 Yamaha
gchuba	#14  Posted on 04/29/14 - 6:48 PM
Member Posts: 1675 Comments: 0 Joined: 03/31/13	Going back to the original poster.... Jay Fitz.... I wish for next year when I can remove the cover and "tidy" for the weather. New repower and lots of work complete, when true salmon fishing is a couple weeks away. Cannot replace my rub rails or stainless rails till 6th coat of tung oil. Killing me, 90 degrees today and trying to hitchhike a ride with the concrete pumper. Between work and energy, tough to complete. Antsy beyond belief but wanting to do it correct. Only consolation is inconsistent bite 6 miles out. gchuba
blacksmithdog	#15  Posted on 04/30/14 - 4:26 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 417 Comments: 0 Joined: 06/26/06	Jay Fitz wrote: It occurred to me over this past weekend that I am two weeks away from putting the boat in. This time last year I was oiling, varnishing, cleaning, painting.... This year, I have yet to unwrap her. With cloudy, chilly, rainy weather in the NE I just have not yet felt the "urge". How's everyone else doing? It has been a cold spring. We didn't make it out for the first time until April 13 and it was really chilly. The air temp was about 83 and the water temp was 68!
SeaLevel	#16  Posted on 04/30/14 - 4:38 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 193 Comments: 0 Joined: 05/03/09	Water temps in the Delaware are around 55 deg. A few Shad being caught and very few bass. Hope it gets better. Someone drove a mini van onto the floating dock at Florence, NJ and twisted it all up. It's in a pile in the parking lot right now. I got my ramp permit a week or so earlier but I can't launch my boat and get in it without the floating dock. "It's just a forty eight year old Whaler but it's all mine" Joseph R Palmieri
CES	#17  Posted on 04/30/14 - 6:39 AM
Member Personal Page Photo Albums Project Albums Posts: 2681 Comments: 7 Joined: 04/27/07	This is the third driest spring in North Texas for the last 78 years of record keeping. Our lakes are 12 or more feet low and that's not a good thing at all...especially for a forecasted "Drier than normal" summer ahead of us. Cliff 1966 13' Sport with a 1993 40hp Yamaha 2 Smoker
firebrand1	#18  Posted on 05/24/14 - 8:05 AM
Member Personal Page Posts: 40 Comments: 0 Joined: 08/12/06	Pretty wet up here in New Hampshire and yet another wet Memorial Day Weekend on tap here. Maybe, maybe some sun for Monday but wet all around. Funny thing, I was making snow at home just a short four weeks ago this Friday. Love the weather ride here!