[bolger] Re: how windy is...Arkansas
Whoa!Some of the scariest weather I ever encountered was in
Arkansas.Remember my mom pushing me down on the floor of the back seat of
our 55 Olds, shoving pillows over my head as dodged tornados driving south
from Magnolia.Phil, hope you'll seriously consider bringing your JB up for
the Mahone Bay Wooden Boat Festival, first week of Aug. It's all we need to
create a new class.
jeb, with the only JB on the shores of Fundy (fortunately NOT where MBWBF
happens)
At 10:21 PM 2/9/2000 -0800, you wrote:
Arkansas.Remember my mom pushing me down on the floor of the back seat of
our 55 Olds, shoving pillows over my head as dodged tornados driving south
from Magnolia.Phil, hope you'll seriously consider bringing your JB up for
the Mahone Bay Wooden Boat Festival, first week of Aug. It's all we need to
create a new class.
jeb, with the only JB on the shores of Fundy (fortunately NOT where MBWBF
happens)
At 10:21 PM 2/9/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>How windy is Arkansas?
>
>I debated whether I should even build a sailboat. My drive to work
>takes me across a causeway over Lake Dardanelle to my plant, and I used
>to count the days that there would be no real wind, 0-2 mph, and they
>were far too many. We get some good breezes after a cold front moves
>through, 5-15 for a day or so. In the spring the wind will pipe up a
>bit more than this, then we know a thunderstorm is about to run over us
>-- then you got to head to the house and sit tight for thirty minutes
>or so and let it blow over. But wind between 20 and 50 mph just
>doesn't exist here -- it goes from 20 t.o 50 instantly, from a
>thunderhead, or worse, a tornado -- then we know someone's fixin' to
>lose a their trailer or chicken house.
>
>Phil Lea
>Russellville, Arkansas
>
>"david jost" <djos-@...> wrote:
>original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/bolger/?start=2447
>> I do most of my sailing on Nantucket Sound. the average wind
>speed
>> on an average August day ranges from W at 10 kts in the am. to
>15-20kts
>> SW between 12:00 and 3:00 in the pm. Since the water is relatively
>> shallow (10-30 feet) it has a tendency to get rather choppy quite
>> quickly. That is why the Cape Cod catboat has gained such popularity
>> on the South of Cape Cod. Its beam gives it great stability and it is
>> quite dry on such a day. I think Micro will stand up well in these
>> conditions. I am not too concerned about being overcanvased, I can
>> always reef once or twice and run back on in since the strongest winds
>> come out of the South. I try to avoid sailing in a shifty NW breeze
>if
>> possible.
>> The amazing thing is, once you round the bend of Monomoy and
>head
>> out towards P. Town. quite frequently you run out of wind! No land
>> mass to heat up and create the sea breeze. Same thing happens on the
>> North shores of Nantucket and Martha's Vinyard. The back side of the
>> islands will be quite windy (and dangerous due to the NOrth Atlantic
>> exposure) while the North side has barely a zepher.
>>
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