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Tonight and tomorrow for us Lake Michigan boaters.

...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT...

.REST OF TODAY...WEST WINDS 15 TO 20 KNOTS. PARTLY SUNNY WITH A
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WAVES 2 TO 4 FEET.
.TONIGHT...WEST WINDS 15 TO 20 KNOTS VEERING NORTHWEST TO 30 KNOTS
AFTER MIDNIGHT. PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. A CHANCE OF
WATERSPOUTS THROUGH THE NIGHT. WAVES 3 TO 5 FEET BUILDING TO 5 TO
8 FEET TOWARD DAYBREAK.
.WEDNESDAY...NORTHWEST WINDS 15 TO 25 KNOTS. MOSTLY SUNNY. A CHANCE
OF SHOWERS UNTIL MIDDAY. A CHANCE OF WATERSPOUTS UNTIL MIDDAY. WAVES
5 TO 8 FEET.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...NORTHWEST WINDS 10 TO 15 KNOTS. MOSTLY CLEAR.
WAVES 3 TO 5 FEET SUBSIDING TO 2 TO 4 FEET TOWARD DAYBREAK.

I was hoping for a sunset cruise this week, guess it will not look like this for a couple of days.

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One of 4 Previous (Sold) Boats:
2000 Four Winns 268 Vista

Current Boat: 2004 Chaparral 235 ssi cuddy

Wuss

Lets take your boat out, I'll buy the Rolaids.....

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One of 4 Previous (Sold) Boats:
2000 Four Winns 268 Vista

Current Boat: 2004 Chaparral 235 ssi cuddy

Good choice Cap'n

Is the bar open?

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07 Azure AZ200,
Previous boat,
95 278 Vista,
And a lot of others.

Ontario, Canada

Shoot, all it takes is a cloudy day and a threat of rain and we will decide to spend the day at the dock. Although we like to take the boat out and cruise around and then anchor in a cove, we also enjoy spending time at our covered slip hanging with friends, fishing, swimming and/or tinkering with the boat. Can't really go wrong as long as you are on the lake (and have some booze).

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Current Boat: 2000 Four Winns 298 Vista
Previous Boat: 2000 Carver 406MY

I'm putting my boat in tonight. I put it away with the low fuel light on - unfortunately, I'll be buying gas tonight. (have some cleaning to do too...)

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2001 Horizon 260 - 7.4 Volvo GSI DP

I was joking ...have been caught in Great Lakes weather like we are having now and it is no fun and very dangerous. Stay at the dock with some booze is the right thing to do.

Yep, I don't take chances in the big lake either. Last week in Holland they had to rescue about 30 people who were swimming at the State Park Beach/Pier. Two people died down in Saugutuck yesterday or the day before.

Going out in the boat is supposed to be fun not a death defying stunt.

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Terry
Current: 07 Crownline 255 CCR cuddy - 350 Mag MPI/B3 "Casi Cielo"

Previous:97 245 Sundowner 5.7GI/SX

Tow vehicle: 1986 GMC 2500 Camper Special 454/TH400

I knew that and I guess I was joking too because us small lake boaters aren't afraid of a threat of rain, we just don't see the point in going out when it is not going to be a sunny day. However, I (alone, that is) have put many hours on my boat during the typical cold, cloudy and windy winter day. Put the camper canvas up, a small space heater in the cockpit along with a cold 12 pack of beer and I really enjoy crusing the lake when no one else is out (including the DNR). I guess this is "my alone time" given I have a wife and 4 young kids. Don't think I would go out in the aforementioned Great Lakes' conditions though.

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Current Boat: 2000 Four Winns 298 Vista
Previous Boat: 2000 Carver 406MY

Hey Cap, can you get any photos of the ferocity? The ones you've posted in the past are pretty cool to behold.

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Gordon Arnold
New Hampshire

2003 268 Vista ..................................................................Prior: 97 245 Sundowner

Lake Michigan is nothing to play with especially if you go into that freezing water.

Sunday delivered 6 inches of rain in 6 hours for us. USA Today said it was a once in 500 year storm. Here's a water funnel right before the storm began (Lake Erie, Marblehead, Ohio)





Camper top and cockpit cover on the boat. It was a bad time for my bilge pump to quit working two days earlier.

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2000 Four Winns - 298 Vista

Cool pix, I often check the weather on a website maintained by the University of Connecticut, in New London, they have 5 weather buoys across LI Sound. The biggest waves I have seen recorded, in a real Nor'Easter, were 8 feet. Last Sunday we got between 8-10" of rain which was a record for us. We get a lot of wet weather but not huge amounts like in the South. I went down to the boat and there was hardly any water in the bilge. Not even enough for the auto switch on the bilge pump to turn on. That's one scenario where I like having the full canvas so I can keep it covered all the time...

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88 Four Winns 200 Horizon
4.3 OMC Cobra-4bbl
2002 Walker Bay 10/2012 Suzuki 2.5
2008 Walker Bay 8

1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.0/Selectrac
2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi/Quadradrive II