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Old 12-19-2012, 05:41 PM   #121
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Is that sufficient to speak of "boating" in your presence?
I drove aircraft carriers in my off-time for many years... and I once stayed in a Holiday Inn Express...

Does that count?


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Old 12-19-2012, 05:45 PM   #122
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Hey Jennifer, wanna go fishin'?
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Old 12-19-2012, 05:57 PM   #123
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I must say I am learning somethings that I did know.

Hey Rick, I understand that sometimes a tug and barge can not just pull in to a cove and anchor to wait out a storm. Have to steam in circles until the weather improves. Does that happen often?

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Old 12-19-2012, 06:07 PM   #124
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True John I shouldn't be so flippant. It is interesting to learn about the different conditions in different boating locales other than the sf bay and delta. I've only had limited experience in a couple other places. None in PNW, which sounds hairy to say the least!!

Al I hate fishing. but thanks. Is that restaurant at your marina every going to reopen? Hope they got rid of all the rats.
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Ms. Jennifer. Those that think they know it all really bother those of us who do.
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Old 12-19-2012, 06:17 PM   #126
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All around the globe there are prevailing currents that invalidate the notion that currents and tides are in equilibrium. The entire East Coast of the US and Northern Europe is impacted by the Gulf Stream, Pacific Coast by the Japanese Current and East Coast Australia/NZ by the Tasman Current. Around the Horn there is a continual current in one direction. Etc Etc

As Murray knows, currents in the PNW can be tough to predict. George Vancouver noted variable currents 220 years ago as he sailed through the inland passages and was completely flummoxed by neap tides.

So no, tides and currents will seldom balance out. The earth's rotation, seasonal tilt, highly variable storms, seasonal winds and slippery water will insure that will never happen.
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Old 12-19-2012, 06:53 PM   #127
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Al I hate fishing. but thanks. Is that restaurant at your marina every going to reopen? Hope they got rid of all the rats.
Geeeez!! It's not about fishing, PG!!

I don't think it'll be opening anytime soon, besides this is the slowest season. If it opens in the spring, I'll be happily surprised. I just won't order anything with peppercorns, capers or raisins.
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Old 12-19-2012, 07:09 PM   #128
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BTW, that reminds me....my wife tells me I've got to get in shape now that I'm retired. I told her, "Round is a shape!"
Yeah, talk about our affliction.

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Old 12-19-2012, 07:12 PM   #129
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We should ask Marin's dog...
Be nice if we could but like the rest of us, he only knows what is and what was. He doesn't know what's coming although, like us, he sometimes knows that something's coming.
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Old 12-19-2012, 07:15 PM   #130
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Yeah, talk about our affliction.

Al and Mark should do an exercise video. I can see it now. Maybe "Gangman Style".
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Geeeez!! It's not about fishing, PG!!

I don't think it'll be opening anytime soon, besides this is the slowest season. If it opens in the spring, I'll be happily surprised. I just won't order anything with peppercorns, capers or raisins.
I'll bet they have to close again once all the rats are gone...
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Geeeez!! It's not about fishing, PG!!

I don't think it'll be opening anytime soon, besides this is the slowest season. If it opens in the spring, I'll be happily surprised. I just won't order anything with peppercorns, capers or raisins.
Lol ok fishing sounds great then! Just if you catch any fish please don't get any fish blood or guts on me.

Thanks for the laugh re raisins, etc.

RTF. Ya got that right.
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Old 12-19-2012, 08:19 PM   #133
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Greetings,
Mr. SS. Newfoundlander would be the most polite term for your dog. I think Newfy is considered a derogatory term according to my sources but I guess the most PC term would be Newfoundlander and Labradorian.
Not RT.. Newfie is quite acceptable.

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Right on RT.

It is pronounced
New fund lander.
Not New found lunder
Not New found lund.

New fund land with the accent being on land not like New Englund

Not sure about the little pronouncement icons. sort of like
Illinois or New Orleans.

Some get irate if not pronounced as the locals

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Yep Skip agree.. found sounds more like fun - New funlander
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Is this post relevant to this seemingly endless thread? (You’re just making it longer Mike. Yeah I know.)

It’s about the PNW. Check.

It’s about tides. Check.

It has a amazing photo of recent high tides in Seattle. It's as bad as a So. FL. hurricane.

Those of you who live there are probably familiar with this, but to me it was new, and interesting, and I never saw anything about it in the media. I feel for the people who might have suffered damage.

High tide in Olalla Bay

Click on the first picture in the body of the blog.

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Is this post relevant to this seemingly endless thread? (You’re just making it longer Mike. Yeah I know.)
Mike it turned into a Sienfeld episode about 350 posts back...
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It has a amazing photo of recent high tides in Seattle. It's as bad as a So. FL. hurricane.

Those of you who live there are probably familiar with this, but to me it was new, and interesting, and I never saw anything about it in the media. I feel for the people who might have suffered damage.

High tide in Olalla Bay

Click on the first picture in the body of the blog.

Mike.
Holy cow. Yeah saw nothing about that on the news!
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Mike it turned into a Sienfeld episode about 350 posts back...
Jennifer--- this is what forum discussions are like in Bizarro World.
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Holy cow. Yeah saw nothing about that on the news!
Oh, that. That happens all the time up here. The people who live right on the waterline have long since learned to deal with it. It's the price you pay for a hell of a view.

Here are two shots of typical weather up here. No big deal, it just happens and people continue on as normal. We've been on the Mukilteo-Clinton (Whidbey Island) ferry in these conditions. Nothing exciting except you have to remember to run your car through a car wash on the way home to get the salt off.
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I don't like fishing either. I'd prefer to drink and pass along the beers.
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A larger version of my Carquinez Strait travels this last Tuesday except the water came over my pilothouse/bridge. Haven't we all had such events?

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