Sailmaker's dream day

[tdw]

What an amazing place. What's with the colour of the water ? Limestone presumably.

Fast, were you living and teaching up there ? Moving to Vancouver must have been a bit of a shock...

[Faster]

Originally Posted by tdw

What an amazing place. What's with the colour of the water ? Limestone presumably.

Fast, were you living and teaching up there ? Moving to Vancouver must have been a bit of a shock...

The water is that colour in summer due to Glacier melt - it's a rather large river system that feeds that fiord.

We lived there for 23 years, I worked at a local pulp mill for most of that but did commute (80Km each way) to where I now teach for 4 years. We decided to move to avoid that commute when I went back to the college. Scenery is different, of course, but now we have much less rain, and since Squamish was getting a bit too busy for us anyhow, now that we live in a quiet area of the city we don't notice a big difference there.

Worse thing is moorage went from $1.25/ft/mo to $8.00/ft/mo..

[tdw]

Originally Posted by Faster

The water is that colour in summer due to Glacier melt - it's a rather large river system that feeds that fiord.

We lived there for 23 years, I worked at a local pulp mill for most of that but did commute (80Km each way) to where I now teach for 4 years. We decided to move to avoid that commute when I went back to the college. Scenery is different, of course, but now we have much less rain, and since Squamish was getting a bit too busy for us anyhow, now that we live in a quiet area of the city we don't notice a big difference there.

Worse thing is moorage went from $1.25/ft/mo to $8.00/ft/mo..

Suffer baby suffer......while you were away we moved the Womboat to her new home. 10-15 minutes longer drive to boat but a much quieter area with significantly less daytime passing traffic and virtually none at night. We were paying the same as you but now approx $20.00/ft/per annum.

[Faster]

Originally Posted by tdw

We were paying the same as you but now approx $20.00/ft/per annum.

...... .... clearly it's time for you to find a bigger boat!

[blt2ski]

Those prices are cheap! Do not come to Seattle, you could be looking at upwards of $15 a foot per month! That is for up to 35' or so, higher if you have one of them mid 100 to 200' slips, with our own fuel pump, pump put etc!

I'm just under 10 per month including taxes etc, which are in the 25 range total!

Now where have I seen that vid from?!?!?! I know somewhere.........

[Faster]

Originally Posted by blt2ski

....Now where have I seen that vid from?!?!?! I know somewhere.........

I'ts only a few weeks old... could've been on SA I suppose.

[Faster]

This year's version of SOAR was a little less wild than the video on the OP of this thread from last year.

Still, the video (about 15-20 mins)in the link below is a good one.. this year the Kiteboarders got involved in the event too, so there is footage of the Friday Inflow race, some boarding footage (impressive) and coverage of the main Saturday event too. The crew that puts this vid together does it all in time for the Saturday night party... very cool.

The winds in this sound are reliable, but can really amp up in the last mile or two, as you'll see the range of gentle beating to spinnakers forsaken in the building breeze at the north end of the course.

A beautiful area, the green glacial water, steep mountains, waterfalls flat water.. and WIND!!

http://www.mmxproductions.com/video/SOAR2011.wmv

[night0wl]

Faster - this new video is incredible! Can you upload it to YouTube so that we dont kill the hosts netconnection?

[captflood]

GREETINGS EARTHLINGS Spinnys are a very un-seaman like sail GO SAFE