Spring is Sprung

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The grass is riz
I wonder where the yachties is?

All around the Clyde yacht owners have been down to their boats to switch their AIS on, Marine Traffic is suddenly a rash of magenta dots, they will stay on now until October, some of them will occasionally morph in to arrowheads but not for a month or two yet.
More predictable spring blooming than the daffodils?
 
Quandary said:
The grass is riz
I wonder where the yachties is?

All around the Clyde yacht owners have been down to their boats to switch their AIS on, Marine Traffic is suddenly a rash of magenta dots, they will stay on now until October, some of them will occasionally morph in to arrowheads but not for a month or two yet.
More predictable spring blooming than the daffodils?
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You are just bragging because it is not snowing over on your side of the country today?

Is your new ship launched now for the season?
 
I was out in Belfast Lough on saturday and whereever spring had sprung it hadn't landed there.

There's been a rash of boats with AIS on in Bangor all winter yet none in Carrick. I'm sure a sociologist could make much of that.
 
Sun is still out though it is blowing 40kts. from the east and it is just above freezing. Can't complain though, four days since it has rained, never happened last year.
As a life member of CSC I know why they do not keep their AIS on in harbour, you don't need a sociologist to diagnose common sense. We always regarded North Down as poserland. Been away 14 years and still miss the winter and early season racing in the Lough.
 
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I don't think there's anywhere near as much bigger boat racing in the Lough as there was. Ballyholme especially is very active with dinghy racing in the winter though. That's where the action seems to be these days.
 
wully1 said:
Spring was yesterday - and a lovely day it was.

Chuffing freezing again today thought not as windy here as the high thorny place it seems.
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Astronomical spring began on the 20th March, and lovely that was.....once the decks were cleared of snow.
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