Anyone frosbiting in Hamilton or Toronto?

snipeguy

snipeguy

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I'm getting cranky. I need to sail. Anyone in the Golden Triangle doing any frosbiting. How about Water Rats. I know they used to sail year-round.

(in a Chuck Heston voice) "For the love of God, please help me!"
 
Hi,

Check out the Midwinter Masters at Clearwater YC in Feb. Good regattas also the week before and after too.

Al Russell 182797
 
vtgent49 said:
Hi,

Check out the Midwinter Masters at Clearwater YC in Feb. Good regattas also the week before and after too.

Al Russell 182797
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Thanks for the offer. Clearwater sounds great but it's a little farther than I planned on. I was hoping for a weekly series within an hours drive from Guelph. You know, frozen sheets and all that stuff. Gotta save my sheckles for the Snipe MidWinters in Nassau. (Pan Am qualifier don't cha know)


-"There's no such thing as bad weather; only inadequate clothing."-
 
Wow man....good luck with that!...As a former Canadian I can't seem to get my head around this winter-sailing thing!!!! The mere thought of it makes my skin dry up.....

Have fun

Hey, I used to play trombone in several central Ontario Exhibitions....that still going on?
 
Sunray said:
Wow man....
I used to play trombone in several central Ontario Exhibitions....that still going on?
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Couldn't resist.....
shouldn't...

aw what the hell....

Sometimes I forget where I am too.....but....let me try to help you out...

Are you reaching back an forth a lot with your right arm while blowing into a shiny metal thing??
 
Sunray said:
Hey, I used to play trombone in several central Ontario Exhibitions....that still going on?
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Oh yeah, for sure. Every fall. More hoser cows and pigs than you can shake a hockey stick at. It's called the Canadian National Exhibition.

Trombone, eh? My condolences.:D
 
nono...not the C.N.E. ....that's at the waterfront in Toronto. I mean the central Ontario Exhibition near Guelph....

And no....the extending pipe scenario is, alas, no more. However, I have been playing the flugelhorn (like a trumpet but more mellow), and I am finishing up my 2nd album of 'smooth jazz' using it.....
 
I sailed in the outer harbour all summer this year and know the Rat fleet. The harbour freezes over now. It used to stay open because the Hearn Generating station just at the end of the harbour pumped water used to cool the generators into the harbour after is passed through the plant, and it was warm enough to keep it ice free. But the station is closed and the only thing the harbour is good for now is skating.
There is no one frostbiting now, or I would know.
 
Sunray said:
nono...not the C.N.E. ....that's at the waterfront in Toronto. I mean the central Ontario Exhibition near Guelph....

And no....the extending pipe scenario is, alas, no more. However, I have been playing the flugelhorn (like a trumpet but more mellow), and I am finishing up my 2nd album of 'smooth jazz' using it.....
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Haven't heard of that one.

I'm a player myself and so is my wife. I'm a roots rocker(mostly a session guy) and the wife is folkie and sometimes rocker. I've got a studio in back of my boat repair shop. Used to have a band called "the Snipetones".
:p :p :p
 
Canada and Horns>>

I played a baritone bugle with the Shoreliners at Gananoque in a 1969 Drum and Bugle Corp Show. WE WON!!!

yes I played trombone for 20 years

My boat shop has a a 12 string guitar, cornet, trombone, soprano recorder, piano, many harmonicas, a couple jew's harps, a $40 travelling guitar from the old Laser van, and a couple weeks ago I bought a banjo.

The two requests most often heard when I play have always been and remain "Far Far Away" and "Shut up and give that instrument to somebody who can play it."
 
gouvernail said:
Canada and Horns>>

I played a baritone bugle with the Shoreliners at Gananoque in a 1969 Drum and Bugle Corp Show. WE WON!!!

yes I played trombone for 20 years

My boat shop has a a 12 string guitar, cornet, trombone, soprano recorder, piano, many harmonicas, a couple jew's harps, a $40 travelling guitar from the old Laser van, and a couple weeks ago I bought a banjo.

The two requests most often heard when I play have always been and remain "Far Far Away" and "Shut up and give that instrument to somebody who can play it."
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A baritone bugle? Isn't that an oxymoron? If you still have it you must post an mp3 of you playing it.

Oh, and the banjo thing is something I have wanted to explore as well but haven't had the nerve.
Q:"What's the difference between a banjo and a trampoline?"
A:"You don't have to take your shoes off to jump on a trampoline".

"The definition of a gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo....but doesn't".
 
LOL...I'm so glad I turned this thread into one of musical pursuits....sorry 'bout that....

Anyway...I am impressed by these folks that have combined both passions "a music studio in the back of my boat shop"---That is GREAT!!!!

For me..music is the profession and sailing is the 'non-money-making' passion, but both are passions...My Logic Audio software just went on the fritz, so I have to hurry up and get something else ( can't go more than a week without composing SOMETHING!!)

My new hitch is finally installed so all i need is a trailer and a Laser and I'm off!!!! Will keep you all posted..
 
Sunray said:
...My Logic Audio software just went on the fritz, so I have to hurry up and get something else ( can't go more than a week without composing SOMETHING!!)
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I'm primarily an analog guy; after crawling over the Lasers and Snipes you get to my 8 track tape studio. I was in tonight working on some stuff. "I go down to the river to go to church......". Hope to have some product by the summer. I'm still tying to write the definitive sailing song. I like to think of it as my retirement plan.
:p
 
snipeguy said:
I'm still tying to write the definitive sailing song. I like to think of it as my retirement plan.
:p
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For me, it's Southern Cross by CS&N.

PS: this thread sure drifted off topic.....
 
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