Another Year

[Glory]

Happy new year to all!

For those of you in the northeast, if you haven't checked your thermometer yet it is cold. Here on Long Island, NY it's 6, my son is stationed on Wellesley Island,NY it -29 degrees there.

So today I'll head down to the boat to set up some heat to keep the bilge pump/float switch from freezing.

Then turn my attention loading a snowmobile trailer for next weekend.

 

[BobWaz]

Happy New Year to all from Lake Champlain at the NY/Canadian border. -16 this morning, -20 yesterday!

 

[SEVEN]

Happy New Year fellow Forum Brothers and Sisters. It’s been a hell of a year but we’re looking forward to a new adventure in raising grandkids and retirement. Thanks to all of you for your participation, experience and guidance over the last 3 years. You have been extremely helpful and supportive. Oh BTW it will be 66 here today, sorry Glory.

 

[Boatsb]

Happy New Year, wishing you nothing but happiness and health to you and your family.

And it's only going to hit 65 here today.

 

[Stripes]

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

 

[Glory]

Happy New Year fellow Forum Brothers and Sisters. It’s been a hell of a year but we’re looking forward to a new adventure in raising grandkids and retirement. Thanks to all of you for your participation, experience and guidance over the last 3 years. You have been extremely helpful and supportive. Oh BTW it will be 66 here today, sorry Glory.

Don't be sorry, we have some activities to help pass the non-boating season. A fun season all of it's own.

 

[Glory]

just couldn't figure how to turn that also photo.

 

[Boatsb]

Nice jet ski.

 

[Walter P]

Anybody remember the movie "The Day After Tomorrow"? Setting was in New York City mostly and it
was about a drastic change in the weather to the extent that we were entering another ice age. I don't
think that's what's going on but there doesn't appear to any letup in site...Friday and Sat will be even
colder here in central jersey. Keep warm everyone....this is like gas, it will pass.

Walt

 

[MadHatter53]

Happy New Year to everyone !! Wow another year gone !! It was 9 this am now it's a scorching 15 here in PA. Rumor is snow this Wednesday /Thursday and staying in the teens another week.

 

[Scarlett]

Better be careful those temps don’t freeze that pink stuff you guys use to winterize your boats. Happy new year to all and thanks for all the help and advice. John

 

[Avenger]

If this keeps up I'll be breaking out the iceboat.

Happy New Year to all. Regardless of how warm or cold.

 

[SEVEN]

Better be careful those temps don’t freeze that pink stuff you guys use to winterize your boats. Happy new year to all and thanks for all the help and advice. John

Happy New Year John. Maybe this year we will get a chance to meet.

 

[BobWaz]

If this keeps up I'll be breaking out the iceboat.

Happy New Year to all. Regardless of how warm or cold.

At one time we owned a 1 man and a 2 man ice boat. If you have never experienced it, it is like sky diving and Formula 1 racing at the same time! A 1 man boat can top 90 mph, a 2 man 140 mph. The speed can be 5 times the speed of the wind. Ice boats held the land speed record for over 300 years!

 

[jrbrein]

At one time we owned a 1 man and a 2 man ice boat. If you have never experienced it, it is like sky diving and Formula 1 racing at the same time! A 1 man boat can top 90 mph, a 2 man 140 mph. The speed can be 5 times the speed of the wind. Ice boats held the land speed record for over 300 years!

Thank you very much but I am very happy at 8 - 10 knots.

Good luck!

Jon

 

[Boatsb]

I'll take 100 mph. And at 0 GPH it's even better.

 

[Pete]

Happy New Year to all. Depending on where you and your boat are located, there is good news for all. The south Florida crew can bask in the mid sixty winter weather they share year round with the Palmetto bugs (large species of cockroach for us non Floridians). Moving north to the North Carolina area, it is really cold, around 17F this morning with an ice skim on our harbor. This is cold that we have missed for several years, but if it is maintained for a period, the crop of mosquitoes and flies will be greatly reduced during the 2018 boating season. Good trade off in my opinion. Going further north is questionable for this New Orleans born boy. Lived in upstate NY for several years, even owned a couple of snowmobiles and used them in Watertown, but never adapted to the Winters. So the point is choose what makes your life the best it can be, including location, and enjoy.

Pete

 

[racclarkson@gmail.com]

It was 15 this morning in Aiken, SC. That's pretty rugged for here. Turned the water off to the horse barn last night. Around sunup, I instructed my wife to wait for my signal down the hill before opening the cut-off. As usual, she heard half the instruction. I'm kneeling down closing the drain valves on the gas instant heater when I get a blast from the open drains which, inconveniently, are elbowed right at me. I heard it coming, but my knees let me down again. Maybe tomorrow morning we can switch positions.

 

[Glory]

Here on Long Island, NY we are forecast to have a low of 2 degrees Friday and Saturday. But I will miss that I'll be in Vermont the forecast is for -20 the same days.

Stay warm!

 

[Avenger]

At one time we owned a 1 man and a 2 man ice boat. If you have never experienced it, it is like sky diving and Formula 1 racing at the same time! A 1 man boat can top 90 mph, a 2 man 140 mph. The speed can be 5 times the speed of the wind. Ice boats held the land speed record for over 300 years!

It is a blast I can tell you. We had a very small one that my father built from plans and used a cut-down Snipe rig on it. Since you sat only about six inches off the ice it was quite an experience. But trust me, one wants to wear a helmet if one has any sense. At the time we apparently did not.

Unfortunately the boat had fallen into disrepair since it's not that common for the bay up here to freeze anymore. Pic from the last time it was intact:

A lot of the parts are still around, the plans are around somewhere and I took dimensions off the pieces that were disintegrating. If I had known we were going to see this kind of cold I would have gotten busy in the workshop over the summer.