The Circus

icesailing · Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 172

Well pleasure bay should be safe. Whats up with the weeds? Are thet just around the edges. I dont think we had grass last year. There was some mutant green stuff last fall neer the edges but once you got past it the rest was clear.

OliverTwist · Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 211

There's Pleasure Bay in Boston, and Pleasant Bay in Chatham (Cape Cod).
The weeds are in Pleasant Bay (Cape Cod).

jingebritsen · Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 3371

Mankind gets penalized every time it messes up the balance of nature. icesailing, please don't promote killing of sharks. I'm not the biologist, just a human trying to see us muddle through a little more humanely and help us steward the small blue planet we enjoy. If we keep playing God, we may collapse the whole life cycle on the only planet we know we can live on.

BTW, this may help with the stat's of shark attacks. This is more a trail of numbers for the proportional spread, not the actuals. 20 shark attacks per year in the world, 14 in USA, 12 in FL, 10 in Ponce Inlet, S. Daytona Beach FL. Don't want to be attacked? Stay away from Ponce Inlet. I sail in Ponce about 2-5 times a year. Hardly have ever seen a shark there. Seen way more dolphins.

More likely to die on the road. More likely to get struck by lightning. More likely to get killed in a plane crash. capice?

sailingjoe · Joined: 06 Aug 2008 Posts: 1087

People driving speeding automobiles kill, maim and injure considerably more people than sharks. Is anything serious being done about that? It's a lot easier to target drunks than it is to correctly govern the vast majority of drivers so that they don't drive dangerously. The same goes for media attention to sharks.

pueno · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2807

DanWeiss · Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 2296 Location: Connecticut, USA

There has not been a shark attack in Massachusetts since 1936, I think. A 16 year old boy was killed while swimming in Buzzards Bay.

Windsurfers simply do not provide sharks with an image of pretzels and cheese dip. We don't hang around in the water much, our silhouette when in the water (including our gear) looks nothing like anything a shark might eat unless they are used to munching on one-winged terrydactyls.

The boys and girls sailing in Hatteras know they sail with sharks all the time -especially at Oregon Inlet and out at the Cove. I sailed the Cove last year with several sharks visible under the surface. About 25 other windsurfers were out as well. It was a bit creepy being able to see them, but I don't know any stories of any windsurfer being attacked.

Icesailing must be pulling out collective leg. Anyone sailing in the ocean sails near sharks all the time without any knowledge of having done so. They simply do not pose a reasonable danger on a daily basis. I admittedly would not go windsurfing in a fish tank of hammerheads, but that's not what we're talking about -even off Monomoy

Respect the ocean and all that it conveys but no need to fear its contents!

iceratz@comcast.net · Joined: 16 Feb 2009 Posts: 346

This will be the future for Chatham! Shocked

icesailing · Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 172

Hey Iceratz, i sent you a private email about the icesailing stuff.

iceratz@comcast.net · Joined: 16 Feb 2009 Posts: 346

outcast · Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 2724

I'm with Iceratz.....
But really, this thread is dead.....let's talk about Fred.
Head high and wind, it won't matter if there's 10 or a hundred
I just thought that it's been fun to watch