Ran my boat from up there for about 30 minutes with the autopilot remote control. The novelty faded very quickly. Like my pilothouse much better.
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Pic courtesy of Magic.
Ted
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My weather is probably more likely to inspire "indoors" operation than
yours.
All good, enjoy.
Ted
Like the looks of your boat, Ted. ... I've only "ridden" on top of my pilothouse while in the berth. Having spent nearly two decades in an open sailboat's cockpit, feel I deserve the protection/luxury of a pilothouse.
My top-side controls.
Don't know if they really qualify as a flying bridge.
Have never run from up there.
Ted
http://www.kleamanmarine.com/images/okisollo_mid_size_2.jpg
Ted: Here is your Okisollo when there was a fly bridge. Looks good, don't know why it was removed.
Hit a record today 48c @5pm
Now wheres that snow I dont like
Takes a special kind of crazy for that kind of cold weather, IMO.
My wife wouldn't argue with you on that point, especially since I actually get energized by it.
Ted, please.
In Vancouver, I have seen ice on the water in Coal Harbour twice in the past 40 odd years. Even then, you could go out with a FG boat, or a wooden boat that has gumwood around the waterline, as the ice was thin.
Until we bought our Saltspring home, we would boat 12 months a year. Equipping the boat with a diesel stove allowed us to heat it properly at all times, so our season was limitless.
I admit to aging, so now we spend the colder months in Indio Ca, where it rarely gets cold enough to hurt the petunias.
In the summer, we boat without turning on the diesel stove, from mid May to mid September. That summer is more than what Murray sees in Kitimat, but even there, he will see at least a 10 week summer, not just a few days.
Don't listen to Keith. It is all lies! The PNW and BC only have two nice days in the summer and they are separated by weeks of cold drizzle. Winters are wet, dark, windy, and while not extremely cold, they are extremely unpleasant. Green mold and moss grow faster on the top sides than the grass and barnacles grow on the bottom.
This is the worst boating weather in North America unless you really are a sick bastard that likes cold water, cold wind, and dark skies most of the year and then simply cold water, cold wind, and long gloomy cloudy days the rest of the time.
Save yourselves and avoid boating up here.
Tough bug!-17C yesterday morning and +2 this afternoon...even saw a small bug flying around today
forum staff:
Not that it really makes any difference to me, but I think
your post counter is afflicted with a stutter.
In this thread I have posts #63, 65, 67 and 71.
They are all counted as personal post #502
Good forum, I obviously enjoy it, just don't post often.
Ted
I think I understand what it should be, but.....
take another look at those posts (page #4 ?), all 4 of them are listed
as being post #502.
I think this "stutter" has happened before, but didn't search it out.
This time the posts were reasonably close and could all be seen.
As I said, doesn't really matter to me, but the count might to someone
else if it happened to them.
all respect
Ted
48c is what my veterinarian surgeon wife calls 'puppy & kitten drowning weather'. Terminally unacceptable.Hit a record today 48c @5pm
Now wheres that snow I dont like