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existentialsailor
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Initially Posted - 10/10/2007 :  07:26:42  Show Profile
I helped a friend bring his Caliber 38 to Newport RI from Falmouth ME this weekend. He'll be taking it to NC next week with other crew. Very nice boat. We left at 1AM Saturday and arrived at 3PM Sunday. We stopped over Saturday night since the fog made it a good idea.

Saw some whales. Experienced the Cape Cod Canal in the dark and in fog. Learned a lot about navigation and the limits of radar. Thought Buzzards Bay was a blast. Am surprised how many boats out there do not follow the Colregs.

About myself, I learned I am most definitely a day sailor and any notions entertained about living on board a boat are completely wiped out. It is not the life for me.

You don't know until you try something.

I think I'll be building that sailing rig for my kayak this winter, seems like that's all I need to get my fix.
Rick
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Response Posted - 10/10/2007 :  08:17:54  Show Profile  Visit Justin's Homepage
Sounds like a good experience Rick. I know what you mean about finding out that your idea of living aboard is wiped out. Last fall and winter I really got the cruising bug, read all about cruising and thought it was something I really wanted to do. Then in April I delivered that 42' Hunter down the east coast and it erased my idea of cruising full time and especially of crossing oceans (too boring). After spending almost two weeks living aboard, I was ready to head home. It probably didn't help that the captain was VERY eccentric. Now for some reason, I caught the cruising bug again and think how I'd love to cruise down the coast and to the islands. From my delivery I learned that offshore passages weren't my thing, but I think coastal cruising and island hopping sounds appealing. Like you said, you just don't know until you try.
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Response Posted - 10/10/2007 :  09:08:56  Show Profile
You can always go to somewhere interesting and charter a boat. A big catamaran or even a (gulp) trawler will give you a whole different perspective on cruising. There's sailing, and then there's <i>going places</i>... Sailers often find that to "go places" they end up under "iron genny" a major part of the time, going slowly and noisily. I like to <i>sail</i> in a sailboat (a Sunfish or Beetle will do), and...



What were some of the Colreg abuses? (My favorite around here is refusal to hold an obvious course--more of a discourtesy than a violation--"wandering about" I call it.)
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existentialsailor
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Response Posted - 10/10/2007 :  16:06:41  Show Profile
Colregs:

No steaming light, (sailboat under power, at night)

A freighter a couple of hundred feet long, anchored in a clearly marked channel, no lights and not responding to radio, at NIGHT.

The funniest radio exchange was two skippers of larger boats screaming at each other over the radio in english, which obviously was neither of their native tongues, about passing port to port, green to green, I nearly pissed myself laughing at that one.

I am convinced everyone thinks they have the right of way.

People are a lot less polite in Massachusetts than anywhere else, at least on this trip.

One other thing I've learned is that I absolutely hate fog and the smell of diesel fumes!
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Response Posted - 10/10/2007 :  17:48:19  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by existentialsailor</i>
<br />...I absolutely hate fog and the smell of diesel fumes!<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Ah, but those fumes might tell you something in the fog! As for smells, try following the coal-burning historic tour boat that travels the river here... (Time for a conversion!)
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