Launch day

Posted:
Fri Apr 06, 2012 3:52 pm
by talbot
Only occasional thunderstorms and hail. Don't know why I'm all alone out there. I mean, if you wait for the weekend, the season will be practically over.


Posted:
Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:14 pm
by TIM WEBB
Season? What season?
(But I have to admit: no usual Friday-after-work sail for me today, as it was blowing 20-30 kts until well past sunset ...

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Glad I got out there earlier in the week, and glad you're back in the H2O Mr. T!


Posted:
Sun Apr 08, 2012 2:44 am
by talbot
Right. Florida. Sunshine, oranges. And they don't drain the ocean for flood control in October like they do our reservoir.

Posted:
Sun Apr 08, 2012 10:34 pm
by TIM WEBB
Yeah, it's Florida, but it ain't sunshine all the time, 'specially during hurricane season. So I guess we have a season after all ...
Don't sail in the ocean (with the DS), but we do get a lot of water depth variation in the local freshwater lakes. They're all connected one way or another with the St. Johns river, and when the river's up, they're up, and vice versa. The thing is, there's always this long lag between any major rain event (read: hurricane), and when the water actually rises: it can take weeks for the effect to trickle down to the lakes ...
As for oranges, well, that's fast becoming an extinct industry in FL, at least around here. All the orange groves are now subdivisions ...