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| 1250.1 | LAKE Geneva for the best sailing! | SHIRE::MEYER | I'd rather be sailing & catching large trouts | Thu Jun 15 1989 04:04 | 11 |
| Monsieur Brodeur, you might enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva,
surrounded by Alps, famous vineyards & Castles built in the Middle
Ages, that appear most often on Chocolate boxes.
It is 45 miles long & around ten miles wide, & banana shaped
with the Rhone river crossing it. It is famous for lots of fine
fishing, which I enjoy doing as I sail...
Nick(M)
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| 1250.2 | WHAT ABOUT PARANOA LAKE | VAXRIO::FERNANDO | | Thu Jun 15 1989 14:00 | 10 |
| Hi Brodeur,
I dont know how far and high you want to sail. If you want to come
down here in Brasilia/Brazil we have a nice lake and it is at 1000
meters altitude.
You can use my boat and will be very welcome.
Regards, Fernando.
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| 1250.3 | is lake Dillon the highest? | NEXUS::L_BRODEUR | | Thu Jun 15 1989 18:54 | 14 |
| I would love to sail lake Geneva, but it's a lot of ocean to cross
to get there. Now as for Brazil, thats a possibility, I could
drive there.
I have a trailerable 22 ft boat which I have sailed
in places such as Buzzards bay off from Massachusets, Pamlico sound
off the coast of North Carolina and the gulf of Mexico off the florida
coast. Living now in Colorado, It's about 2 days driving to get
to an ocean so I am enjoying the lakes that are within a days drive
of here. There are some lakes here such as lake Dillon in the heart
of ski country which claims to be the worlds highest yacht club.
The altitude is about 10,000 ft. I plan to try and get the boat
there this summer, it must be ice free by now.
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| 1250.4 | Another Colorado Springer | BSS::YOUNGQUIST | | Thu Jun 15 1989 22:37 | 9 |
| Hello,
I am also a Colorado Springs resident with my boat, 27' Catalina,
slipped at the North Shore Marina at Pueblo Lake just 35 miles
south of the Springs. Right now the water level is dowwn about
twenty vertical feet, but still plenty of room.
rob.
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| 1250.5 | Low tide in colorado | NEXUS::L_BRODEUR | | Thu Jun 15 1989 23:04 | 16 |
| re .4
Hi Rob,
Yes I've been to Pueblo reservoir and I considered renting a slip
there, but after seeing the lake on a busy weekend I decided to
just trailer to different places to see what it's like.
I heard that John Martins Reservoir has new boat ramps this year
but the water level is so low that the ramps are out of the water.
I would hope that after all this rain that the level would go up
enough to launch a boat.
Lee
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| 1250.6 | Colo. Lake sailing | MED::BELL | | Thu Jul 06 1989 10:19 | 15 |
|
I lived for many years in Colorado and have sailed at one time or
another in most of the larger mountain lakes. I like lake Granby
the best. It has many interesting coves inlets etc. to explore
and is a excellent camping area. The fishings good and I have never
seen to many boats on the lake ( can't say this about most lakes
close to Denver. Lake Dillon is also good and its a bit closer
if your into racing its the best choice. There are a couple of
good lakes in the foothills above Ft. Collins but that would be
as far a drive as lake Dillon.
Bob
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| 1250.7 | BLUE MESA OR BLEW MESA | CSC32::L_BRODEUR | | Mon Jul 10 1989 22:33 | 15 |
| I just returned from 2 week vacation. During which time I tried out 2
new to me lakes. One was Blue Mesa, I was very impressed with the
wind there. Every day around noon, the wind picks up continuously to
a rough guess about 25 to 30 miles an hour with some very strong gusts
and shifty winds, winds were for the most part out of the southeast.
While sailing back in single handed from an exciting trip up the lake
and back, I had to lower sails so I tied down the tiller and went up
on deck to lower them. the boat was headed into the wind at that time
suddenly a gust of wind hit the starboard side and spun the bow of the
boat into the wind with such intensity that the rudder cracked between
the tiller handle and the kick up rudder. I was only about 200 yds
from the marina at the time so I didn't have much problem getting back
in, Whew!
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| 1250.8 | Lake Navajo nice place to go | CSC32::L_BRODEUR | | Mon Jul 10 1989 22:57 | 23 |
| The trip from Blue Mesa back to Colorado Springs was about 5 hrs when
pulling a boat, the worst part is going over monarch pass elev 10,400
ft. I repaired the rudder by sheathing it in 1/8 in. anodized
aluminum. Time to try a new lake, this time I decided to go to lake
Navajo on the Colorado New Mexico border, this a days trip from home.
Lake Navajo is about 40 mi. long and in parts 1 to 2 mi. wide. There
is a Colorado State park there, where you can get a lakeside camp site
and beach the boat right next to your camp site in a protected cove. I
was impressed, they even had warm showers at the campground. The lake
is warmer than Blue Mesa and You can actually swim in it, swim in Blue
Mesa and you come out blue, it's cold!
the sailing wasn't much different than Blue Mesa, very impressive
winds for sailing, watch out for wind shifts though they can be very
suprising. At times I was sailing with just the mainsail up, this
made my wife feel a little more comfortable. The lake isn't too
crowded either, there's some large sailboats on this lake which makes
it nice not being the only sailboat on the lake.
I liked both lakes but prefer Navajo to Blue Mesa.
Lee
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