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| Phil T |
Posted on 10/05/08 - 5:19 PM
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For those who are not year round boater's, when does your season typically end?
What is the primary factor? Weather (too cold), kids in school, travel, etc.
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| kamie |
Posted on 10/05/08 - 6:52 PM
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combination of water level getting too low and it getting too cold. In the winter the little bay that I live on looses about a foot of water. With 3 feet or less at the end of the dock, getting on/off the jet dock is a challenge.
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| Binkie |
Posted on 10/06/08 - 4:05 AM
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Whenever the temp falls below 70 degrees. I know in a few days the temp will be back up to acceptable levels.
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| chrepp |
Posted on 10/06/08 - 5:24 AM
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My season ends when the snow starts to fly. I don't tow a trailer in the snow. It isn't any fun when your hands get so cold that you can't tie a knot while fishing, but I usually wait until that happens to stop going.
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| CES |
Posted on 10/06/08 - 6:37 AM
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There's probably about three weeks during the winter time that I won't go when it's absolutely bone chilling cold (to North Texas standards). For the most part, I usually splash the Whaler at least once a month during the winter.
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| Derwd24 |
Posted on 10/06/08 - 8:14 AM
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Unfortunately it's on the earlier side for me as everyone's schedule gets much more hectic once labor day rolls around unfortunately...
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| Blue_Northern |
Posted on 10/06/08 - 9:02 AM
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End? That is always funny to me growing up in Texas. Some of our best trout fishing is in the dead of "winter". There are usually a few weeks in Jan-Feb that really just would be a bit unpleasant to be on the water. Other than that you can go out pretty much year around. That's why it is so hard to get anything done on the boat down here. 
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| ShipShapeMarine |
Posted on 10/06/08 - 10:18 AM
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NEVER. I mean it helps being in coastal GA, it does get pretty cold sometimes and the sea, she is a bit testy, but as far as I am concerned thats what a coat is for!
Also, lots less people on the water in wintertime and therefore less idiots. More room for me and the rest of us who respect the water, boats, and what can happen while afloat, good and bad. Summertime and for a while on either end of it, the rivers are chock full of people who would just as soon wake your dock plowing 10 feet away and run you over without ever knowing it as wave to you.
On a lighter note, it is good to live in a place where people have the freedom to boat whenever they darn well please. Where they have the freedom to own at least one Boston Whaler!
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| duf |
Posted on 10/06/08 - 11:42 AM
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It doesn't here in Corpus. The only thing you have to deal with is an occasional chilly spell, and if your going offshore, the winds and waves may be too high. One of the highlights here is the Christmas season and the evening cruises to look at the lights. Most people put the lights up in their BACK yard, not their front. We also have a Christmas parade where quite a few boats put up lights and decorate their boats, cruise through the canals, and votes are taken for the best boat.
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| CES |
Posted on 10/06/08 - 11:51 AM
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I hear ya Duf. When I was a kid growing up in the Fort Lauderdale Florida area, we used to look forward to the Christmas boat parade every year on the Intracoastal waterway. I haven't been to a boat parade in many many years. I sure did enjoy the heck out of them back then. How many boats do you usually see where you are?
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| Blue_Northern |
Posted on 10/06/08 - 12:16 PM
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duf - CES and other TX Whalers. Sounds like it might be a fun gathering of lighted Whalers. When does this thing usually go down or do we just create our own sail date?
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| ioptfm |
Posted on 10/06/08 - 1:14 PM
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As long as the wind is not blowing we get to boat pretty much year round back up in the creeks, but it does get cold in the open waters 
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| duf |
Posted on 10/06/08 - 3:43 PM
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CES, Last year the La Posada was on the 7th/8th of Dec, you can find the article about it if you search La Posada in Corpus Christi. I would guess the normal turnout is 20 to 30 boats, mostly big ones with Santa, Raindeer etc's. I usually attend a party... ok, or two, but as you all are learning, have no problem hosting one! Let's see what the interest is, and i'll work on finding out the dates for this years La Posada is and we'll go from there. As a fall back to an additional Whaler get-to-gether, we can still do something to do a night cruise and check out the lights. Some are very spectactular. Bob/Kathy , where you at 
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| John Stall |
Posted on 10/06/08 - 3:46 PM
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Phil T wrote:
For those who are not year round boater's, when does your season typically end?
What is the primary factor? Weather (too cold), kids in school, travel, etc.
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| John Stall |
Posted on 10/06/08 - 3:50 PM
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Season ends Oct.16-30th here in Ontario because of weather. Cold temps develope in November and so do the Gales on the Great Lakes.
Although I've come to trust the Whaler implicitly, The Gales of November that ravaged the Edmond Fitzgerald on Lake Superior are too much to test.
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| MW |
Posted on 10/07/08 - 2:42 AM
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late oct. early nov. is the "Fall Run" here on Long Island.
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| RevengeFamily |
Posted on 10/07/08 - 5:42 PM
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As a travel soccer coach it's tough to find time on the weekends in the fall and spring. But we do manage to get out a few times during Striper season. Then we pull her and tuck her in for a warm winters knap. EVERY day before I go to work I rub my hand down her side... I LOVE MY WHALER!!!
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| CES |
Posted on 10/07/08 - 6:26 PM
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Hey Duf, that sure sounds like a great idea.....coming down for the boat parade. I though about tieing down a Christmas tree on the bow of my 13' and calling it good!
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| duf |
Posted on 10/08/08 - 4:57 AM
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CES, you do that and you can lead the Whaler parade. Hopefully we can put something together for a one dayer, get together, put a meal together and cruise in the evening for the light show, perhaps even during the La Posada. I'll see what i can do to find out when it will be and we can go from there. We might have to start privately e-mailing each other so we don't upset the other troops because we are out on our boats and theirs are under 3 feet of snow!
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| CES |
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Hey Duf, sounds good.
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