Baysailer wrote:As I look out the window the lake is still frozen. In fact the ice isn't even starting it's shifting floes yet and its April. Still the sun is shining so that puts me into the mindset that I should start getting my DS ready. I am already ready, work has been a bear, winter has been a bear and I'm sure I'm not alone. I'm sure everyone in the north east at least is tired of looking through catalogs and online reading all there is and some books too. We are ready, ready to sail.
Fred DS#1351
Fred, I am so completely there with you on being "ready"!
We had are really remarkable weekend two weeks ago, and probably half of our snow cover melted off (and it was formidable!).
A few days later, another 12 inches of snow came down just to dampen the spirits, but it is late enough in the spring that, although it refuses to give up, winter knows it's now a losing battle. On Wednesday I went out to our cabin (45 min away) and the lake was still pretty solid, but a great deal of ground snow was gone.
Yesterday (Friday) my wife and I drove up and all of the ground snow is gone and about 10-15 ft of water was now showing around the edges of the ice mass. Overnight the wind kicked up (big) and this morning there are huge cracks in the ice (the flows you talked about) we we're getting close.
So I decided it was time to start getting the boat ready...
I've not done a thing over the winter so I have a bunch of cleanup things to do from my list of winter project chores, so when I'm done, hopefully the ice will be out, the docks will be in, and I'll be ready for the water!
Com'on ice... Melt! Melt! Melt!