Aren't we lucky on the island?
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 4:14 am
Insomnia again, just killed my throbbing headache with a T3 so I'm just kinda rambling here but just read a great December windlog from Kingston, Ontario:
". Winter sailing is a great experience, love sailing from my home 12 months of the year!! 
and I am once again reminded how lucky we are on this island not just be cause of the great wind but comparatively great temps. I know you can always retreat down south in winter to escape some of the cold but then you might have more boring windlogs, like "gee...warm again today, water's also warm....generally sometimes too warm, beer's getting warm"I sailed back to the parking lot and started hearing "Ding, Ding, Ding!" which turned out to be small pieces of ice hitting the board/fin. I neglected to notice about 30 feet of broken ice packed against the shore. It won't be too long before its frozen over...
Couple lessons learned:
- Don't walk through pack ice near the shore when there are big waves; it hurts the legs!
- The "hunter's reflex" really works; two fingertips were cold after about 10 minutes so I took a short break, they warmed up and then I was toasty warm,
- I checked the air temp at noon (zero) but forgot to check before I hit the water; it was -4 and surprisingly not too bad. I had to dip the boom underwater occasionally to melt off the icebut other than that it was great!"
". Winter sailing is a great experience, love sailing from my home 12 months of the year!! 
