Boating Withdrawal Symptoms

[Sixmark]

OK guys,

I think I may be suffering from withdrawal already and we haven't even hit the new year yet.

Just the other day I caught myself fawning over the new gauges I got for my Baretta, then found myself taking out the new paint for the spring paintjob to look at the color again.

Now today I'm in the process of building and in floor locker/cooler and my boat is 70 miles away.

Should I consider professional help, or will videos from the summer get me through........do we have any shrinks among our ranks?....

 

[DianneB]

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I sympathize with you Six!

My boat is sitting by the shop in the back yard and I have been working on it since I hauled out in mid September but the weather is getting too cold to spend my time in there.

I keep catching myself sitting at the helm and visualizing the lake through the windshield .........

Sad, very sad .....

 

[DuckHunterJon]

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Nope, I'd say your're perfectly healthy. In a few weeks when there is a foot of snow on the ground, and you are sitting at the helm with swim trunks and sun block on, sawing on the steering wheel, and making motorboat sounds - then we'll have to call in for professional help. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to get back some light reading - the owners manuals for all the perifrials on the boat...

 

[bonz_d]

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Here in SE Wisconsin the lakes have just fozen over and the realization that soft water is now 4 months away has just sunk in.

At least last winter I had the release of hunting for all the needed parts and acc's to finish up my Lund and get it ready for the season. Ahh well.

 

[richg99]

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Hmmm Now you've made me feel real bad. Here it is in Houston TX...temps are are high 30's this morning. I have some PVC guide posts that I have to put on my new-to-me 160W Lowe.....and I couldn't get my ***** out of bed this morning to go lay on the floor of the garage to do the job. TOO COLD....said I.

Guess I will have to wait until Saturday for the 70's to come back.. Shucks....I feel bad now. Rich

 

[richg99]

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OK You shamed me into it. I am heading to the garage to get those PVC posts done right now. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr

Ha! Rich

 

[richg99]

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Job done....thanks for the motivation! It wasn't even cold out there, either.
Rich

 

[sasto]

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I'm even feeling your pain today here in FL. Temps in the 60's but with a cold, damp rain....all day says the weatherman. Stuck inside today going thru the honey-do-list.

 

[LippCJ7]

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I went out and fondled my Bravo III today, I think alot of us are a little off.

Sometimes I just listen to this over and over and over and over....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aQ1PIq8k0Q&feature=related

 

[Summer Fun]

Re: Boating Withdrawal Symptoms

Only 20 more Fridays.
Then I can stop beating my head against the wall and sleep on the boat again.

 

[SigSaurP229]

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I caught myself sitting in my captains chair making motor noises

 

[jspansel]

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I caught myself sitting in my captains chair making motor noises

Ahahaha! I do the same thing on my motorcycle! Snow and slush all around so I cannot ride the bike OR take the boat out Double withdrawal!

 

[Sixmark]

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I think I'm getting worse, just today I was looking at some snowdrifts thinking "man I could cut through those breakers with ease" then my brain kicked in and said "hey dummy, prop + snow = NO GO".

I am convinced that the voice of reason only has one purpose.....to pee in our cheerios.

 

[LippCJ7]

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Just wait until you motorboat the wife!!

 

[CheapboatKev]

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I'm even feeling your pain today here in FL. Temps in the 60's but with a cold, damp rain....all day says the weatherman. Stuck inside today going thru the honey-do-list.

Yep even we SWFL guys can have it rough! No matter what the Northerner's say..It's been low 40's, high 30's overnight and today only hit 57!
Last weekend I was out though, and this weekend should be right back in the upper 70's!

I joke with my boss in Chicago, when he talks about putting away his 30 ftr for the winter, I tell him yeah, I hear ya, my season is only 355 days!

 

[thesledhead]

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I went out and fondled my Bravo III today, I think alot of us are a little off.

Sometimes I just listen to this over and over and over and over....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aQ1PIq8k0Q&feature=related

just noticed where you where from, what lakes do you go to?

 

[LippCJ7]

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just noticed where you where from, what lakes do you go to?

Day trips Pueblo, Weekends Jackson or Big Mac, after work Chatfield. You?

 

[Bluepike]

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I don't know if you can call it withdrawl but the other day I was going down the road and went to stop for a red light. The car started to go sideways so I cut the wheel hard to port with my left hand and was reaching for the throttle with my right to pop it in reverse before I realized that I was actually skidding and not pulling in to a dock.

 

[5150abf]

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I know, I got out fishing Thanksgiving weekend one last time then the weather went to crap, I geuss it is time to get the ice hut out again.

 

[AGENT 37]

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You just need a real aluminum boat. A couple weeks ago we took the boat out to go deer hunting on a remote island. We broke through 1/2" ice on the bay for 3 miles going out and coming in. I can't even describe the sound (not to mention the feeling of empowerment) that you get driving a 1/4" plate hull through hard water at 15 knots. It's pretty cool watching the "spray" of broken ice fly up and slide across the top of the frozen bay. Not something to be done with a riveted or fiberglass hull though.

We've got salt in the water here and temps don't drop below the 20s too often. But its the short daylight hours and the predictably-unpredictable winter weather that really put a damper on fun.

Sometimes the ice gets too thick to launch the boat (when the trailer just rolls out on top of it) or the snow gets piled up too deep at the ramp (usually a result of the plow guys disposing it in the bay). But I can usually get out all year long even though it is very sporadic in the winter.

What do you do when you start sliding with the boat in tow?