4th of July plans

Stu Jackson · Jul 1, 2010

It's like New Year's Eve

on the highways. I'm with Benny and some others: like Opening Day and Fleet Week, all the crazies come out.

I enjoy my boat enough to avoid the idiots and can sail some other time.

zeehag · Jul 1, 2010

as i HAVE to be SOMEwhere, not having a functional car at present and dont know when i will, i get to hunker down with my 8 ft stainless steel fending pole and......spear snotties coming up my transom.....after they run over my dinghy.

.....yipes--i certainly am not going to go to the beach..lol--i need to buy everything today or tomorrow so i dont have to contact the crazies on land ...LOL......sharpen the point of my spear.

.....LOL

phillip--what jimbob said......

also--dont forget the storm free west coast has sailing, still...we havent ruined that completely, yet.......

cb32863 · Jul 1, 2010

No sailing til the 5th as my lake is loaded with power boats over the 4th weekend and it gets very crowded. BBQ at home with the kids on the 4th then walk tot he park for fireworks. Hoping the rain holds off on the 5th so we can have a nice afternoon sail.

shemandr · Jul 1, 2010

Mystic Seaport.

Ross · Jul 1, 2010

Marc Bergmueller said:
Wow, you guys must have crowds of powerboats. I don't expect to see but a few until noon. Hopefully I will be there by then. Everybody be safe.

Marc, you are quite far south but never try to sail a small boat on the Sassafras River on a summer weekend.

Bob Poff · Jul 1, 2010

Saturday evening we're going on a dinner cruise aboard a stern wheel paddle boat.

The 4th itself will be a rip and tear, cuss and curse day for me while I finally get back to working on the my boat electrical boat project.

The evening of the 4th, my wife and her sister will meet me at the marina to watch the Havre de Grace fireworks. Later we'll watch all the boats attempt to miss each other out on the Susquehanna flats in the dark. (Points given to the observer who first notices a reversed set of nav lights).

Big Windy · Jul 2, 2010

Ross said:
Sunday is forecast to be nearly 100 degrees and every powerboater on the river will be out driving fast and drinking hard trying to keep cool. I will keep the boat in the slip and maybe go sailing on Tuesday when most people have gone back to work.

Same here. I never go sailing on any of the long week ends. If I take the boat out, it will be as a 'power boat' only.

Nereussailor · Jul 2, 2010

We're spending three nights on the boat heading north. We're not sure yet how far we're going, that depends on the weather. We've been looking to see where there's fireworks on Saturday and Sunday so we can catch a couple of good shows. Can't wait!!!

Dave

Bob S · Jul 3, 2010

This is our third season with our boat. I have never been out on the 4th but always wanted to. We just got back from a week long adventure taking us from Vineyard Haven, Edgartown and Nantucket with no reservations. There were more vacant slips and moorings than occupied. Has anyone noticed that? We're thinking of anchoring in New Bedford this year but have the same concerns....alcohol.

dscribner · Jul 3, 2010

My truck rear end is giving me problems so I'm not going far. We'll be taking the inlaws out (1st time) on out Lancer 25 on Monday. My mother-in-law will be great. (I got lucky. I love that woman dearly. After 29 years shes still a PEACH!) . My father-in-law will have kittens everytime the boat heals more than 1 degree. But a lesurely pace around the islands and along Old Orchard Beach and back will probably take four hours. Just about right.

I'd rather take the Mrs. back to the island and . . . you know. Hey, she in the shower right now. I wonder if .... .. ... . . .

zeehag · Jul 3, 2010

lol--is only the 3rd and we have a park full of folks and a bay full of crazies---yipes--is gonna be a loooong weekend!!!!!