What's next for you?

[WakeboardMom]

Now that ski season's over...?

Me? I'm broadening my horizons! Got my stuff in the mail for my sailing class. My husband is going to start working on his certifications so that we can bareboat charter in the Caribbean. I'm taking the first class with him. I'm scared sh*tless to be anything other than crew or railmeat. It's time for me to man up.

Our class is three days next week in Boston Harbor. I'm hoping it gets at least a little bit warmer!

 

[Marc]

Join a club with small boats. I have a Force 5 which has the same or very similar main sail controls that bigger boats do, including down hall, out hall, vang, traveler. Lasers are pretty easy to find. Controlling a small boat will make a better big boat helmsman, so I hear.

 

[RootDKJ]

I set a goal to give kayaking a try over the summer. My biggest fear is I'm going to love it and drop more cash on gear.

 

[gmcunni]

softball and mountain biking will hopefully be keeping me busy during the non-skiing season.

 

[WakeboardMom]

Join a club with small boats. I have a Force 5 which has the same or very similar main sail controls that bigger boats do, including down hall, out hall, vang, traveler. Lasers are pretty easy to find. Controlling a small boat will make a better big boat helmsman, so I hear.

We'll be doing that. Our tuition includes six passes to use the school's boats; plus we have 17-foot Tanzer on the lake. I've never been inclined previously to sail that one; have only ever volunteered to crew it. We also have a smaller sailboat, I don't know the name of it, only that it's similar to a Sunfish. I should probably think about taking that one out as well. "Practice, practice, practice."

 

[dmc]

Music... Hiking... Biking... usual...

 

[WakeboardMom]

I set a goal to give kayaking a try over the summer. My biggest fear is I'm going to love it and drop more cash on gear.

Another water-vehicle that we have that I've never tried. I guess that should probably be on my "broadening my horizons" list as well.

 

[severine]

Love still water kayaking... too afraid to do it on anything more lively. It's on my list every summer to get out there but we never seem to...

Going to focus on the biking during this off season. Try to get some hiking in again, too.

 

[RootDKJ]

Love still water kayaking... too afraid to do it on anything more lively. It's on my list every summer to get out there but we never seem to...

Going to focus on the biking during this off season. Try to get some hiking in again, too.

2nd person to mention still water to me. I was planning on white water...or what ever the Delaware river has to offer the day I decide to go.

 

[Geoff]

My full attention is now focused on getting everything moved to my cottage so I can move in as soon as the hardwood floors are dry.

I need to haul the mountain bike out of the basement today and get it tuned.

Once I have a better handle on the final cost of my home remodeling project, I'm most likely going to start shopping for a J/24 to go sailing. I need to take care of the bright work on my dinghy and get that floating. No spare cash to get my power boat floating at the moment.

 

[wa-loaf]

I like ocean kayaking, but that's not in the cards right now. For the summer I'm going to try to fit as much mtn biking in as I can.

 

[severine]

2nd person to mention still water to me. I was planning on white water...or what ever the Delaware river has to offer the day I decide to go.

My father-in-law introduced me to kayaking on lakes and ponds/boggy areas. Very peaceful and serene. I should get out more often since he has all the equipment and told us we can borrow it any time he's not using it, but I never seem to get out there.

I have confidence issues re: whitewater. I have confidence issues in general though.

 

[o3jeff]

Biking and hiking.

 

[WakeboardMom]

My father-in-law introduced me to kayaking on lakes and ponds/boggy areas. Very peaceful and serene. I should get out more often since he has all the equipment and told us we can borrow it any time he's not using it, but I never seem to get out there.

I have confidence issues re: whitewater. I have confidence issues in general though.

Yup, stillwater kayaking on the lake in the early morning is what I had in mind. Have no desire to do anything involving rapids. I've been on four whitewater rafting adventrues and that's enough for me.

 

[Marc]

I'm training about 10 hours a week on the bike (road and mtn) plus racing at least every other weekend.

Still working on the house. The new bathroom is close... I need to connect up the appliances to the new drain stack, and the new drain stacks to the old, plus have my plumber sweat in new t's and valves into my current hot and cold water lines. Need to scrape ceiling paint, repair the cracks in the horsehair, then paint. Starting to work on the bedroom... which will include taking down the exterior plaster walls, replacing and beefing up framing for four new windows, insulation, new wiring and lighting, sheet rock or blue board and plaster (not decided yet) more ceiling repair, paint, new bedroom furniture.

I've got new siding for the outside of the house where I had to rip off the old stuff to have part of the sill beam replaced last fall. Need to get house wrap up and then prime the siding and put that up, plus new trim boards. Trim the outside of the new windows. Scrape old paint. Putty holes and cracks in the old siding, then prime and paint old siding. Buy and hang shutters and hardware. Work on the tops of my chimnies commences this week. As well a little early garden planting, cleaning out flower beds. Work on gathering stones for and building a small retaining wall in the front of the house. Also start work on the two first floor rooms in the new part of the house which means seven more windows to replace, more plaster to come down, more insulating, wiring, sprinkler system work, scraping, painting, plaster repair, wood floor refinishing, removing and rewallpapering the foyer.

Plus fundraising activities for this year's Pan Mass Challenge and in case I got bored, I also signed up for the Rhode Island MS150 with some people at work.

Oh yeah, and starting July I'm taking a review class to prep for the professional engineering exam in the fall, plus starting about 6 - 8 hours of studying a week.


This could be a busy summer.

 

[RootDKJ]

My father-in-law introduced me to kayaking on lakes and ponds/boggy areas. Very peaceful and serene.

That's exactly what my other friend was saying. It's hard to find places like that in NJ but she told me she'd point me in the right direction. I did some canoe/raft trips down the Delaware and Lehigh rivers as a kid, there's some fast parts, but nothing really intense.

 

[ctenidae]

Sailing- we should be ready to launch in 2 weeks. This weekend we-assembled the rudder, re-installed all brightwork and most of the hardware, including 2 gimbaled cup holders (placement of other two TBD). Replacing some of the running rigging, and she should be ready to go.

 

[marcski]

Now that ski season's over...?

Me? I'm broadening my horizons! Got my stuff in the mail for my sailing class. My husband is going to start working on his certifications so that we can bareboat charter in the Caribbean. !

Does this mean you go topless, WBM?

I just continue to ride my bike like I do all year.....but now I get out more often and mix in the road bike as well. I even had my hardtail back in shape and on the trails this past weekend for the first time in about 4 years.

 

[deadheadskier]

hit the ocean once it warms up. few camping trips planned this summer. fair amount of music. trail run.

 

[WakeboardMom]

Does this mean you go topless, WBM?

I just continue to ride my bike like I do all year.....but now I get out more often and mix in the road bike as well. I even had my hardtail back in shape and on the trails this past weekend for the first time in about 4 years.

Lots of possible answers...

A. "When in Rome..."

B. "What happens in the Caribbean, stays in the Caribbean."

C. "I'm too old for that subject to pique anyone's interest." ; - )