It's like watching someone riding up the airport escalator while playing with a yoyo. Everyone focuses on the yoyo going up and down and up and down without focusing on the fact that the escalator is still going up, up, up. Joe SeaFrog M17 ----- Original Message ----- From: Shawn Boles To: 'For and about Montgomery Sailboats' Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 7:07 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: first sail of the Lake Pleasant AZ season Connie: One result of global warming is increased weather volatility (e.g., Snow in October...). Don't confuse the instance with the trend. cheers, Shawn Boles Grey Mist (M17 #276 1978) -----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Conbert Benneck Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 2:58 PM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: Re: M_Boats: first sail of the Lake Pleasant AZ season On 29-Oct-11 5:16 PM, Gordon Gilbert wrote: Its been snowing a turkey feather snow storm since 1 PM here in Connecticut too At 2 PM we lost power until 4:30. The snow is still coming down. The local newspaper says this is the first snow fall in October since 1979. Global warming? I wonder what sort of weed Mr. Gore smokes....? Connie
Here in Minnesota it's about 55 degrees and sunny outside, with all the trees "on fire" in gorgeous orange, red and yellow (our most beautiful fall in years). Come on out to the Midwest to enjoy it (but I wouldn't suggest staying too long). Unfortunately, Sapphire is out of the water waiting for the inevitable flip-of-a-switch shift to cold and white.
Gordon Sapphire St. Paul, MN
On Oct 29, 2011, at 3:03 PM, wcampion@aol.com wrote:
Are you bragging Doug? :-) Believe it or not, it's snowing here in the east. That's right, it's snowing in Baltimore in October. What's with that?? If I want snow in October, l would be living in MN. lol Enjoy the weather in AZ.
Skip Campion "Wild Guppy" M-15 #201 1982
"Li'l Guppy" M-10 #177 1974
-----Original Message----- From: Doug Kelch<doug_kelch@yahoo.com> To: Montgomery<montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sat, Oct 29, 2011 3:12 pm Subject: M_Boats: first sail of the Lake Pleasant AZ season
The cool front finally came through and the temps dropped and the wind came up. Took "Seas the Day" ( M15 Gaff Cutter) out to play. The starting winds were 10 ts, gusting to 15 kts. By the end of the day the forecast proved correct and as blowing 15 kts, gusting to 25 kts. SWEET!!!
y the end of the day I was down to a single reef in the main and just the taysail and still moving at hull speed.
got to play with all of the lines a couple of times :-) Thanks, Doug Kelch Seas the Day" 15 G #310