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[Rob Morton]

Cruising plans...

We didn't get to sail last year due to the dam at the lake being worked on. We plan to launch this Sunday. The lake is a smaller one, but we are planning on staying out about one weekend a month. We have a week planned in the San Juan Islands in Washington the first week of July. We also have plans with a friend across the mountain to sail from Portland to Astoria in Sept. Those are the plans anyway. I can't wait to feel the boat under me and the wind take us away!Rob MortonS/V Euphoria

 

[Gene Besch]

Going Around the Great Cirlce and Virgin Islands

I have just sold my home and will be leaving shortly on a trip around the Great Circle Route, or through Trent severne and Back Via Erie Canal depending on time and other considerations. I will then try to leave for the Bahamas in the early fall and plan to go to Virgin Islands and maybe stay awhile, or who knows maybe on to South America. My dog PJ and I will be sailing together so this will not be single handed oops guess it will but I'll have lots of foots. I am looking into making the trip in a MacGregor or a boat with 3' 6" draft of less. You can learn about this journey and my progress on my website click related site below. I like to write about my journeys but this time I will be writing about PJ's experiences also. I want very shallow draft for potty breaks and runs on the seculded shores along the way. Also taking my 14' foot Kayak(Cat) for journeys into the very shallows.

 

[Brian D]

San Diego Bay

And usually only on weekends. It takes four plus hours to get from my marina to the ocean entrance, depending on wind conditions.

 

[Liam]

Every weekend

around the San Francisco Bay. And then usually two week-long trips a year to the Delta, a one week trip down to the Monterey Bay, and one two-week trip to the Channel Islands.

 

[Dan Johnson]

Gunkholes for John...

John, how do you get past Fishing Battery at low tide? LOL!Seriously, give Rock Creek a try (off the Patapsco) and give the Bodkin Creek a shot at high tide (you won't get in or out at low tide) it's really pretty up there. I've hosted a Columbia rendesvous at Pleasure Cove the past three years.Below the bridge try the South River if you can stand the powerboats. West River is another spot if you can get in past the tight entrance. Rock Creek/Deale is your last choice before Solomons. I spent my summers there growing up but haven't been in there with a sailboat--long run to the south to come back up inside the large shoal area on the north side of the entrance. Herrington Harbor gets rave reviews so it must be good.S/V Intrepid '83 H34 #113

 

[OldCat]

Catlalina!

Cruising? Catalina! 875 or so miles away. Of course - most of that was airline miles! Our end-of-winter celebration was to fly to CA and charter a Catalina 34. Great trip - even if the weather was a bit on the poor side.So - does the quiz count air miles - or just water miles?

 

[ex-admin]

Final results

Final results for the Quick Quiz ending April 9, 2006:My cruising plans this season are to sail:34% In local waters27% More than 100 miles away22% 25-50 miles away17% 50-100 miles away1,023 owners responding

 

[David]

A mix of it all!

We are "Frequent Fliers," Cruisers and Day Sailers.While the boat,"Emotional Rescue," tends to be our "Cottage," we also sail north, on Lake Michigan, to ports all along the coast. Normally, I will join my friends for the month of July and sail on an extended trip.In the past, we have stayed on the eastern shore. However, we are planning to travel to Sturgen Bay, Wisconson, enter Green Bay and travel north to Escanaba and Fayette in Michigan.Lake Michigan offers a lifetime of cruising opportunities. If one tires of that, Lake Huron and the North Channel are just around the corner.Have a great day and keep boating, no matter how you use it.David

 

[Barry C]

Bodkin Blues

Boy am I looking forward to reaching other Chesapeake Bay harbors. Everyone complains about Bodkin Creek. I keep my 21' MacGregor right at the mouth of the Bodkin. Now there are days that I have stayed out too long to be able to execute the proper tack to sail back in to the creek, but that's what why you have the motor. Under power I have never had a problem navigating that inlet. Our main problem is somtime the line for the channel may be long. Of course there is always the problem of rude power boaters who think it's funny to harass any sailboat they see. I still want to be that sailboat that comes up Stony Creek raising the draw bridge at 17:45 to 18:00.*666

 

[Cap`t John]

cruising

My wife and I plan to go down the intracoastalto Palm Beach and then to cross to the Bahammas for the winter. We will be trucking our Beneteau361 from our home port in eastern Canada to Norfolk or vicinity.Any suggestions as to a good reliable and redasonably priced yard to use?

 

[Marybeth and Rip]

Race every Friday and Cruise two weeks

We race every Friday night and spend lots of weekends day sailing with friends. Then in August we take a two week cruise somewhere on Lake Michigan. Last year it was around Door County. This summer we are going South to Chicago and Indiana. The Lake Michigan Hunter Sailing Association rendezvous will take us to Racine Yacht Club the weekend of July 14, 2006.