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DaveR
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Initially Posted - 09/01/2009 : 06:00:28

Going to be taking a long week-end on Bamboo with Sugar (woof woof) and Peggy. Heading south from Daytona via the Intercoastal Waterway to the Mosquito lagoon. Probably will pass through Haulover Canal and then further south on the Indian River (ICW also). Maybe head out to Canaveral .......... who knows. One thing I've learned from personal experiences and from you guys is to keep the itinerary loose! It's been since October 07 that I've been overnight, looking forward to it.

Haulover Canal;

Dave Robbins
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DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/03/2009 : 17:28:06

Well, the boat's over packed, the weather SEEMS to be drying up a bit, I lost the woman that was to work for me at my Storage Facility because her dad died yesterday and has to fly north, but was able to find a replacement. The outboards are running good. My landlubber girlfriend is even excited for the adventure! So it looks like we're off tomorrow morning. I just hope it's not too hot at night and the bugs don't carry us away!

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Response Posted - 09/04/2009 : 05:29:41

Dave, Nice and cool outside this morning..brrrr...almost time to break out the sweaters and jackets

I'm sure being on the water will drop the temperature even more. Looks like you have a good weather window...On the west coast, NOAA is showing a 50% or less chance of rain all weekend.

I always enjoy reading your trip reports.

Have a great time!

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/09/2009 : 08:18:22

So Friday Morning we took off around 9:30am. It was kind of soupy out, humid, quite a bit of low cloud cover but nothing building.

A couple hours later we passed by Ponce Inlet as we sailed south on the Intercoastal, they were dredging. The Inlet's been gathering sand in places and is getting a little perilous.

There was only one bridge to raise today, the Coronado Beach Bascule in New Smyrna, we did that, Peggy marveled at the huge hydraulics.

We had a nice wind out of the NNE and even did a little wing on wing, but without a whisker pole I was mostly keeping the main close so as not to cover up the 110.

Made it to Edgewater by mid afternoon and dropped the hook in the same cove I used 2 years ago.

My brother Brad lives on a canal there and I was able to dinghy to his place to fill the 5 gal water jug that we had forgotten to do earlier. Lot's of dolphins around and the three I point out in the video came up right beside the boat and turned on there back to look up and check Peggy out. She loved it. One had a tiny baby (calve) about 2 1/2 feet long.
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB4Knv4iNsg"]bamboo at anchor video[/url]
By late in the day there were some storms around but all passing us by, only a couple lightning strikes anywhere near us. It did provide for a great light show after dark and some beautiful photos at dusk!

Got ate up pretty good by "no-see-ums" Friday night, pretty warm too, sprayed on the deet, but still got a few and finally getting to sleep about 5am. EEEeeeeeeeeeee, enough of that. Dinghied to and sat on my bro's favorite sandbar and drank some beer, cooked chicken wings with him, his wife and friends. That evening we pulled anchor and sailed south to the Lagoon and an open area with more wind to rid ourselves of the tiny biting gnats. It worked

and was cooler as well. More semi close rain & light show but nothing threatened us.
Sunday mornning we decided not to go further south but to head back to New Smyrna Beach and [url="http://www.cityofnsb.com/index.aspx?nid=170"]stay the their marina[/url].

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Aaaahhhhhhhh, a shower

Food cooked for us

It was great. Got up Monday, walked Sugar down to a little cafe and ate breakfast, then to the Marine Science center, back to the boat and off we went towards home. The inlet was going nuts with Labor Day Partying

The outgoing tide was ripping so it took a good 2 hours to get home from there. We packed the stuff we HAD TO, ran fresh water through the outboard, went and ate a nice meal and called it a week-end!
Was MUCH fun and Peggy's ready to go again

PS- [url="http://picasaweb.google.com/waveless96/Laborday09_cruise#"]more photos[/url]

Edited by - DaveR on 09/09/2009 11:14:36

JohnP
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Response Posted - 09/09/2009 : 10:55:20

Thanks for the story and the nice pix!

I've avoided getting eaten up by mosquitoes and biting flies when I'm at anchor by putting netting over the raised pop-top. I used 2 old net curtains, each one about 8'x12'. I sewed them together along the 8' edge to make a rectangle 16'x12' that covers the cabin with room to spare. It works fine when there's no breeze, which is when the bugs are worst. You might want to try something like that.

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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 09/09/2009 : 19:10:18

Awesome photos! You could sell that one of the clouds. Thanks for sharing your cruise story.

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 09/10/2009 : 06:44:12

Thanks Randy,
Would you believe the camera that took those is a 2 megapixel? An old [url="http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_archived_product_details.asp?id=641&fl=4"]Olympus C-2100 ultra zoom[/url]. not many pixels but a large and quality lens.
And Thanks also Don B, I have a lot of fun posting these. Just wish I could get out more often and post more!

Edited by - DaveR on 09/10/2009 06:46:27

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Response Posted - 09/11/2009 : 18:45:41

DaveR
Enjoyed the pictures.
I laughed when I saw the Manatee Zone sign. At first glance it seemed the speeds posted were recommended.

I think it should it should have MAXIMUM SPEED added to it.

But maybe common sense would dictate something different....but then again 25 MPH speed at night..... That's too fast for me unless a manatee was chasing me.

Thanks for taking the time to post the pictures.

paulj

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piseas
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Response Posted - 09/18/2009 : 14:33:46

Dave, spectacular photos. I am so jealous of your trip. It looked wonderful.
Steve A

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 09/18/2009 : 15:26:05

What, no bodily injuries? No damage to th eboat? How do you do that!?! Looks like you had a great time!

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 11/15/2009 : 17:13:39

sounds like a great trip, in spite of the "no see-ums", and good pics too. Thanks for sharing.

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 11/17/2009 : 07:39:05

It was a great trip David. It'd be even better now though, with temps from 52 to 80.
And Chris I missed your post in Sept., it made me laugh. There were the usual head bumps, a cut knuckle or two and I'm always sore by the end, but yeah, no broken bones or boats! hehe, but I think your waters are way more treacherous than mine.

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Response Posted - 11/17/2009 : 07:54:14

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by DaveR

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">What the hell good does that do--especially at night??

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 11/23/2009 : 06:47:09

Dave,
Even though there's the "Manatee Zone" on it, it's a standard speed limit sign. In an actual Manatee zone it's either "no wake" or "minimum wake", and they enforce those areas big time.

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Response Posted - 11/23/2009 : 10:23:14

On the other side of the sign it says "Manatees Keep Out"

Paul

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Response Posted - 12/01/2009 : 14:32:12

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Dave Bristle
What the hell good does that do--especially at night??

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Provides a target to run into at night. Its so well lit

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