Oh burn :P

On the north-south thing, when I moved to Florida from New Hampshire 12 years ago, I bought a house on a lake and I thought I would be sailing Every Day! Yee Haw! The Sun, The Sand, The....lack of wind!

I've sailed maybe 2 days in the past month, I wanted to get out there today but it's flat right now, as it is most days here in central Fla. all [96 degree average] summer long. The seabreeze never gets this far inland and the cold fronts don't come trough unitl mid November.

I got in much more racing up there than I do down here, because up there the season is so short, from May-Sept, that they race every weekend, big boats on Saturday, Lasers on Sunday and on weeknights too, so there was always a race to go to, until you pull the boat in Oct. Of course I was single when I was racing up there. A wife and 4 kids will put a quick end to any racing you -think- you are going to do.

Down here they are much more "laid back" about racing. When I first arrived in Miami I asked the local J24 fleet captain why they only did one or two races a month. He said, "What's the rush? We have all year. If we raced every weekend people would be burned out in no time. Besides, we like golf too..."

But now it seems like every time there is a cat regatta the wife has other plans, or the kids, or both, and on the weekends when they don't there's no race to go to!

So, come on down, it's plenty warm, but please bring some wind!

Absolutely not. Just don't get all whiney when it get's a little bloody, oh wait I'm thinking of someone else.

Despite the short season, I managed to get out on the boat probably 25 different days. Including regatta's. That's not so bad.

Its only snowed here twice this fall.......

suck fnow.

Oh joy, my weather man just said there will be a ridge of high perssure sitting over us for another week bringing, "Summer Like Heat" which also means, no wind...

http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/33870?dp=windsdp

Check out those wind speeds for the week, looks like I might get enough tomorrow, but along with thunderstorms!

Timbo:

we had gust to 52 when storms came in am. Still take Fla any day. Some day.

Doug

And in 2004 we had 4 hurricanes in 6 weeks, sustained winds to 150 for hours at a time. In the summer our every day thunderstorms have winds up to 60.

My point is if you think you are going to move to Florida and sail every day, you had better move close to the coast for the seabreez, and even that doesn't always show up.

Last winter I shoveled my roof off 3 times. The second time I WALKED off the roof to quit. The third time I climbed UP to get off the roof. Could have parked the snowmobiles on the roof. Something wrong with that.

Isn't Moose Mountain right up Rt. 16 from Northfield, NH? Don't you ski in the winter? Sounds like you could have made a nice ski jump off that roof! We used to go skiing at Moose, at night quite a bit, is it still in operation?

Dave,
Come sail in the ocean, Only cool place in Florida in the summer. I don't think we had a day over 90 all summer(compare that to 94+ in Orlando or the Florida west coast). Match that with 78-83 degree water temp, a seabreeze every afternoon and it hard to beat. I get so spoiled I think it to cold to sail after October.

I was there for the Daytona regatta and Gilligan's it was still freaking hot! October is when it turns on for me in FL, and look at the schedule, it's packed! Fall, winter and spring rule in FL, for me anyway. Pleasure sailing is one thing but when you’re busting a nut trying get around the guy in front of you, it's hard to stay hydrated when it's 90 degrees F.

You're lucky Greg, I don't know what the actual annual snowfall is for a given season here, but I'd guess we get around four feet of snow. Most of the winter there is bare spots, and black snowdrifts. Then there's the horrid cold. We spent about a month after the first of the year below zero. I'd take snow any day over that crap. At least I'd have a reason to go outside other than work, I could justify buying a snowmobile then. Ususlly if its snowing, its at least above zero!

i sail every weekend (clearwater fl area) .. set up in the heat can be uncomfortable ... but besides a few days early this year in the upper 90's it was really not that bad...

mid 90's is not hot. I live around HOTlanta. Sheesh. :P

So you live in a place that's over 90 in the summer AND snows in winter?

Obviously the corporate execs don't want you out doing things other than working....

Setting up your HQ in FL (or carribean) would be bad for productivity, I guess.

One trip to ICU was enough for me.

I've got you beat there Ding.

Been there 3 times personally. :P

That is a race I will happily concede my friend.