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My favorite day.
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| Author | Topic: My favorite day. |
| ratherwhalering |
posted 03-23-2006 03:05 PM ET (US)  
April 2, 2006 at 2:00 a.m., I will set my clock forward and enjoy an additional hour of daylight as I putter around in my whaler. I can hardly wait, just over a week away! |
| elaelap |
posted 03-23-2006 05:54 PM ET (US)
What the hell do you need an extra hour for puttering around on your Montauk, Rob. She's done, finished, showroom, new motor, eat off her deck, dock lines wormed, parcelled and served...face it, it's time for a new Whaler. I can store yours at my house to save you some expense, and I'll even take her out for you every now and then just to keep the batteries charged. Tony |
| PeteB88 |
posted 03-23-2006 07:37 PM ET (US)
I keep my compass watch on DST all year long, stays there, never set back - "fall back" doen't apply. Agree my favorite day of the year is Spring Forward and the worst day is Fall Back. One Day Closer to Summer. |
| fourdfish |
posted 03-23-2006 08:10 PM ET (US)
Amen! It's been a long winter! |
| Sheila |
posted 03-24-2006 01:01 AM ET (US)
I would have to agree that April 2 is my favorite day....at least this year :) |
| littleblue |
posted 03-24-2006 05:04 AM ET (US)
Time to turn the clocks again already? Fantastic! |
| erik selis |
posted 03-24-2006 06:50 AM ET (US)
Rob, We get to set our clock forward this coming Sunday, 26 March. Now I hope it starts warming up around here cause it still feels like winter. Erik |
| aja |
posted 03-24-2006 09:51 AM ET (US)
This will be a good day and all, but the best? I think not. Nothing I've seen can compete with the dayes leading up to and peaking at the boating related festivities surrounding July 4th (in the US anyways...) |
| ratherwhalering |
posted 03-11-2007 09:56 AM ET (US)
I think I'm going to make this a tradition to revive this thread every year!!! |
| Bella con23 |
posted 03-11-2007 11:02 AM ET (US)
As I made my way around the house changing clocks this morning, I finished by crawling under the winter cover of "Bella" and changing her clock as well. |
| Binkie |
posted 03-11-2007 12:35 PM ET (US)
Actually, as a man of liesure, time means nothing to me. The only thing that matters is what I want to accomplish today. Rich |
| FRSam |
posted 03-11-2007 01:54 PM ET (US)
Yeah - it won't be long now - I can hardly wait. Pete (currently snowed-in in the Northern California Sierra Nevada)
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| Buckda |
posted 03-11-2007 04:09 PM ET (US)
That Sammie sure is photogenic! I, on the other hand, nearly missed my flight this morning because I forgot about the time change! Thank goodness traffic on Sunday morning isn't bad. If I blew your doors off on the Kennedy Expressway this morning, my apologies...but I made my flight! |
| FRSam |
posted 03-11-2007 05:36 PM ET (US)
Thanks Buckda - she's a real sweetheart and loves that whaler of mine almost as much as I do. Two things get that tail of her going - breaking out the old shotgun for a little bird hunting or the fly rod which of course means the whaler and H2O. Glad to hear you made that flight of yours... Pete |
| Yiddil |
posted 03-12-2007 08:17 AM ET (US)
hehe, I never spring forward or back, and the clocks always land up correct for a while...Cant belive they did this early and passed a law for it...?? ANyway, mid 70s this week...spring has arrived!!!! Cant wait to go whalering!!! High seventies my mid week:) |
| GreatBayNH |
posted 03-12-2007 08:38 AM ET (US)
Come up to 43 degrees lat. and you'll not only wonder why they did it, you'll wonder what took them so friggin' long! -Seth |
| Plotman |
posted 03-12-2007 09:50 AM ET (US)
Sheila - April 2? One of my favorite days as it is our youngest's birthday, but somehow I doubt that is to what you were referring... |
| ratherwhalering |
posted 03-09-2008 10:54 AM ET (US)
Ahhh, yes. My favorite day of the year has come early, kinda like christmas in October!! The tradition continues... |
| Tom W Clark |
posted 03-09-2008 12:16 PM ET (US)
Daylight savings. Of course! Here I am in Florence, OR this morning wondering, what the hell? When did the Oregon Coast become part of another time zone?! |
| elaelap |
posted 03-09-2008 09:46 PM ET (US)
We just lost a whole day yesterday flying from Hawaii to Fiji. We left at 0035 hours March 8th and arrived six hours later at 0645 March 9th! Man oh man...at my age the loss of even one day is worrisome. Abajo, international dateline! Of course, if I went in the other direction... Nothing of Whaler note to share yet, but here are a couple of photos--one of which has some Whaler significance--to show that my little two-bit Sony is still functioning, even in the incredible humidity. Bula bula, Tony |
| fourdfish |
posted 03-09-2008 09:57 PM ET (US)
Cool Tony, Looks like some great times ahead! |
| elaelap |
posted 03-10-2008 01:31 AM ET (US)
Thanks, ff. Not to derail your yearly daylight savings time celebration or nuthin', Rob, but here's a short YouTube video of how I spent some of my time on our family land on Kaua'i last week (when we weren't body surfing and drinking kava): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDWrvTDZA9c Tony (Hope this link works) |
| ratherwhalering |
posted 03-13-2011 10:49 PM ET (US)
Once again, my favorite day has arrived!!! |
| ScooterCO |
posted 03-14-2011 03:09 PM ET (US)
Why did you skip the last two favorite days?? LOL One of my favorite days as well! |
| Tom W Clark |
posted 03-14-2011 03:12 PM ET (US)
I'm with you Rob. I love Daylight Savings Time. Oddly, my wife does not. She keeps trying to tell me she somehow "lost" an hour yesterday. Can you imagine? |
| ratherwhalering |
posted 03-14-2011 05:55 PM ET (US)
Perhaps one spouses loss is another spouses gain? |
| ceshaw |
posted 03-14-2011 06:22 PM ET (US)
I love DST too!! It marks the first day of a new boating season!!! |
| kwik_wurk |
posted 03-14-2011 06:37 PM ET (US)
Here Here I agree; it marks the 1st weekend that I spend on boat projects. (The fall clock backwards marks the date in which only indoor projects are undertaken.) |
| elaelap |
posted 03-14-2011 07:39 PM ET (US)
Back in 2006 when you started this thread, Rob, daylight savings time switchover was April 2nd, your "favorite day." Only the Good Lord knows why it's March 13th this year, but Saturday, April 2, 2011, is my favorite day of the year, and should be yours as well, for a reason many times more important than a mere change of time: It's OPENING DAY OF SALMON SEASON in northern California!! Tony |
| ratherwhalering |
posted 03-11-2012 11:00 AM ET (US)
Once again, my favorite day has arrived!!! |
| fluke |
posted 03-11-2012 11:55 AM ET (US)
Tony I too enjoy the longer days, but I think the salmon season starts on April 7th thru 30th this year. Would be nice to finaly catch my first one! Mark |
| martyn1075 |
posted 03-11-2012 09:51 PM ET (US)
Still very cold and wet up here but at least its brighter a bit longer as well a nice reminder that at some point the sun has no choice but to finally bring some nice felling heat and light we all look forward to every year on our fine boats. |
| ratherwhalering |
posted 03-10-2013 10:47 AM ET (US)
It's here, it's here, it's really, really here!! |
| Buckda |
posted 03-10-2013 11:22 AM ET (US)
Your day is not longer. An apt comparison I saw the other day is this: Daylight Savings Time is like cutting the top foot off your blanket and sewing it onto the bottom and saying you have a longer blanket. Until recently, only Bureaucrats thought this way. |
| Tom W Clark |
posted 03-10-2013 11:26 AM ET (US)
Rob -- High Five! |
| an86carrera |
posted 03-10-2013 08:41 PM ET (US)
Time change=first day of summer in Florida. Some video from tonight. |
| ratherwhalering |
posted 03-09-2014 11:58 AM ET (US)
Good morning!!! |
| Teak Oil |
posted 03-09-2014 06:27 PM ET (US)
7:30 pm, still daylight, its going to be 50 tomorrow, and several inches of snow are forcast for Tuesday! Welcome to March. It is nice to have a little daylight left when I get home from work. |
| Chuck Tribolet |
posted 03-09-2014 07:04 PM ET (US)
76F in Morgan Hill this afternoon, and quite nice in Monterey this morning. But I wish it would rain some more. Chuck |
| EJO |
posted 03-17-2014 01:55 PM ET (US)
9 degrees F (-13 C)this morning and they expect snow again tomorrow here in SW Michigan. Spring is suppose to start Thursday but it doesn't look that way. I couldn't get the boat out of storage with more than 1 foot (30 cm) of hard packed snow in front of the Quonset hut out building. We did have sun this weekend and it is still light when coming home in the evening. I need to repair a ding in the brow and can't do it as the temp never gets above 45F Sometimes winter suck. |
| ratherwhalering |
posted 03-08-2015 05:18 PM ET (US)
It's baaaack!! |
| Buckda |
posted 03-08-2015 05:26 PM ET (US)
Who decided that the time change should happen early on a Sunday morning? Wouldn't Monday or Friday at 4pm be better? You think you have an hour left at work but poof! it's 5:00 and time to go home! |
| EJO |
posted 03-09-2015 07:52 AM ET (US)
Buckda what a great concept. What can we do to make that happen for us still working folks. More daylight in the afternoon but still snow and ice in front of the Quanset hut with the Whaler stored dry but in-accessible. Slightly above freezing doesn't work here in SW Michigan as the water on most inland lakes and even the Great Lakes is still to hard to boat. Again Winter Sucks. |
| kwik_wurk |
posted 03-09-2015 05:57 PM ET (US)
Yes, made great use of favorite day. When boat hunting for another project...looks like I may have a 13 on the way. Out here in the PNW, Spring started a few weeks ago, actually mowed the grass on Feb 21st...which is rather stunning. The cherry blossom trees have been out for 1 week already. My guess is a great spring and early summer will lead to a grey and damp late summer and fall. |
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