Especially the jibbering slobbering old fools who post here.
B. Barilko-Salish Sea sportfisherman since 1973.
Cholera Outbreak on Vancouver Island
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B. Barilko-Salish Sea sportfisherman since 1973.
The elevated GCRs presently impacting this planet have been mutating disease DNA. The present flu epidemic that isn,t flue and other new or modified ailments both vegetable and animal disrupting, I will find the paper later.
Never raced on the West Coast. The Great Lakes, St.Lawrence River and a little bit in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off of Nova Scotia,for me. ... oh, and here and there in New England, a little.
You have two races that have a reputation out this way. One is the "Driftsure" (I will say no more) and the other is the Victoria to Maui, which sounds like a super awesome survival contest. If I were younger and not broken ...?
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.... 5000 Cholera victims buried on this little island off of Quebec City, alone. There are several other "plague pits" around Montreal that hold many thousands more. I believe that Dominion Square is built over one.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosse_Isle,_Quebec
They should quarantine the whole of Vancouver Island. If it gets onto the mainland all hell could break loose.
I looked at the schedule.It looks like a pub crawl. Is there any wind inshore along that coast. I know that it blows like stink on the seaward side of Vancouver Island but in the protected inshore, it's "putt-putt-putt" like my lousy golfing. The little bit of sailing that I have done on the West Coast didn't involve much wind at all.
If you want a sobering experience, sail off of the Atlantic side of Nova Scotia. I expect that off of Port Alberni would be similar.
Swiftsure. For real sailors.Something Lakers don't want to fukk with.
No biggie. All the islands are overpopulated anyway. Maybe we can do our part to prevent Globull warming this way.
Going North is decent but heading South tacking against the current is slow going.
I'd like to get another sailboat but you can't overnight on the water in SK and that takes the fun out of it. T Storms are extremely violent.
I'd like to get another sailboat but you can't overnight on the water in SK and that takes the fun out of it. T Storms are extremely violent.
Tell us about your experiences on the Lakes. I sail on the only safe one. They are graveyards.
Small, mostly round. Booring as shit unless there is a good wind coming in one of the valleys.Good for waterskiing though.
So, you've never sailed on the Great Lakes? Erie is seriously fecking dangerous. Georgian Bay, up where Danbones lives, is too. Thank gawd they don't have to contend with tides. Lake Superior is a whole lot like the North Atlantic, although the wavelengths are (somewhat) shorter.
I'm 20 minutes away from a lake the same size as the Okanogan with plenty of wind.
My nephew sail boards and holy shit is he fast. It makes water skiers look like they are standing still. I want to give it a try this summer.
My nephew sail boards and holy shit is he fast. It makes water skiers look like they are standing still. I want to give it a try this summer.
Do you need to use one of those parachute type things to keep from being blown across the lake when fishing?
Whomever came up with those deserves a medal.
It's called a "sea anchor" and it probably goes back to the Phoenicians.
ps The smallest Great Lake is 50 miles wide and 200 miles long.
Last Mountain.
Diefenbaker is 100 miles from here. We lived on Diefenbaker for 2 years and yeah it gets windy hence the need for the drift parachute.
I liked living there (Palliser Park near Riverhurst) but my wife and daughter hated it.
The steelhead fishing is second to none.
That's it! give the Phonicians a post humus medal.