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Originally Posted by rgilfert
Are all of you (i.e. Nauti Crew, Webbsatwinni & Rattlesnake Gal) really out there right now? I'm soooo envious!!! Ice just got out a couple of days ago! I guess that I have a lot to learn about being an islander. Like a veg...I didn't ask for my boat to go in until May 1...what a dope! I'm going to have to move the launch date up! Thanks for all your responses...sounds like Verizon is the right solution. Hope to meet all of you sometime! Thanks again!
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As you might suspect, 2012 is an unusual year. For your future planning, if you are as crazy as we are, over the last 100 years the ice usually goes out about April 21. The bell curve of dates is remarkably small. I think it is something like 80% of the years are within a week of the 21rst. We have actually been out a day or two before official ice out in the past, driving the boat around the giant floating ice. When it gets to that point, it is all gone a day or two later.
We are also careful to ask the Marina in the fall to plan where they store our boat to be first in the water in the spring. I think my wife RG would need shock therapy if I could not get her out to the island because the boat was stuck behind a bunch of other boats. (Actually, come to think of it, she would probably think, it must be time for a new boat that could be in the water sooner)
Just don't fall in this time of year. The water is not very forgiving.