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JohnP
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Initially Posted - 07/05/2011 : 12:05:25

As I've seen most years, the waterfront property owners along the Magothy River and the Chesapeake Bay tried to out-do each other with their fireworks displays from docks and beaches along the 5 miles of the north shore and the 5 miles of the south shore of the wide part of the river.

We motored out with a 2 knot breeze. No sailing today! Then we just anchored in a big cove for supper and to get a view of about 270 degrees around us.

We watched all kinds of sky rockets shot off from 20 or 30 spots simultaneously for about 2 hours after sunset. In the distance to the east was a wonderful display from the town of Chester on Kent Island across the Bay, maybe 12 miles away.

Fantastic show!

Hope you had a great 4th as well!

JohnP
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DaveR
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Response Posted - 07/05/2011 : 12:43:31

And the pictures are where?

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piseas
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Response Posted - 07/05/2011 : 13:02:58

John, the only fireworks I saw were the ones coming out of my mouth when I attempted to go out sailing on Saturday and found out my outboard either has a damaged lower case or blown head gasket from overheating, according to my mechanic. Guess the trip to Catalina we make triggered the event. Needless to say, no sailing for me on the holiday and out of commission for next two weeks. Bummer!!!!!

(wish we had a crying emoticon!)
Steve A

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Derek Crawford
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Response Posted - 07/05/2011 : 18:33:28

We had to watch the fireworks on TV from Washington & Boston. Our county (Bexar - pronounced Bear) and the surrounding counties had a total ban on fireworks.
They were most impressive!

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 07/05/2011 : 20:09:56

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by DaveR
 And the pictures are where?

<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Dave, so you go to fireworks shows and take pictures? That's so....... sad.

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delliottg
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Response Posted - 07/05/2011 : 21:13:41

We sat in our hottub and watched our neighbors all around us shoot off illegal fireworks for hours. They started on Friday night, and last night was the big finale. Fortunately our dog is deaf as a post these days so she's not freaked out about it, and the wind was carrying most of them away from our roof, including the parachute flare some genius shot up. Hopefully it burnt all the way out before coming down on someone's roof.

Technically they can shoot off the "safe & sane" fireworks, but none of them buy those, it's too easy to get illegal ones on the various reservations all around.

Still it's very pretty to watch, and a pair of ear plugs before you go to bed helps from being awakened by the 3am version.

It's about 45 minutes till it gets dark, and I'm sure they'll start up shortly to get rid of the dregs.

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Response Posted - 07/06/2011 : 13:31:53

We anchored out for the Harbor's Firework display on Friday night, we didn't get as close as I would've liked as I didn't want to get in the middle of the traffic jam of powerboats so we stayed about a quarter mile or so away, still close enough to hear the BOOMS, anchored out over by my friend's S2 7.9. Really the most amazing part was when the display was over and everyone was leaving, it was like a swarming river of port lights streaming away from the event, it was awesome and a bit scary. I illuminated my sail with two LED flashlights. We stayed at anchor until everything calmed down. As far as the rest of the weekend, we saw probably a dozen other displays from all the surrounding towns. Pretty cool. July 3rd we coved up with a C-27, Beneteau 323 and another 32, played guitar and bongos and drank some Kraken spiced rum. It was a really nice night sail over there and what was amazing is that even despite the triple digit heatwave at night everyone was comfortable with no AC.

From the 323, Stephanos is on the far side.

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Sloop Smitten
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Response Posted - 07/07/2011 : 12:01:00

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">found out my outboard either has a damaged lower case or blown head gasket from overheating<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
Steve,
I would appreciate you sharing with us any information on how you believe this may have occurred and what the final outcome was. Those two problems do not sound even close as far as what may have caused them. Planning on heading to Catalina the end of the month. Probably worth a new thread so this one is not hijacked further.

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JohnP
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Response Posted - 07/07/2011 : 12:04:55

Steve,

I am hijacking my own thread here. You told me your Honda OB got rammed and damaged while in your slip. Is that the same problem, or might the same jerk have hit your boat again?

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Davy J
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Response Posted - 07/08/2011 : 09:39:49

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">(wish we had a crying emoticon!)<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
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DaveR
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Response Posted - 07/08/2011 : 12:03:35

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Dave, so you go to fireworks shows and take pictures? That's so....... sad. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Absolutely not! I stayed home ...... Now that's sad!

Seriously, out on the boat at a show, heck yeah!

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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 07/08/2011 : 13:15:31

The Harrah's casino 2.5 miles downriver is known to have really good fireworks. Conditions were predicted to be perfect. Low tide would be 9:00, current turning around 9:30, and fireworks around 10. So we could sail with the current both ways. There was a gentle breeze that allowed us a close reach all the way down, with the current pushing us gently. Right as we got off the shore of the casino, the current turned and with the gentle breeze we ended up sailing standing still for an hour before/during the fireworks. I only had to do periodic adjustments to keep us from drifting sideways into the anchored boats. As soon as the show was over we came about and made about 7 knots in a broad reach with the current. It was great!

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PCP777
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Response Posted - 07/08/2011 : 13:51:01

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by RhythmDoctor
 The Harrah's casino 2.5 miles downriver is known to have really good fireworks. Conditions were predicted to be perfect. Low tide would be 9:00, current turning around 9:30, and fireworks around 10. So we could sail with the current both ways. There was a gentle breeze that allowed us a close reach all the way down, with the current pushing us gently. Right as we got off the shore of the casino, the current turned and with the gently breeze we ended up sailing standing still for an hour before/during the fireworks. I only had to do periodic adjustments to keep us from drifting sideways into the anchored boats. As soon as the show was over we came about and made about 7 knots in a broad reach with the current. It was great!
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

Isn't that cool.

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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 07/09/2011 : 07:33:27

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by RhythmDoctor
 ...we ended up sailing standing still for an hour before/during the fireworks. I only had to do periodic adjustments to keep us from drifting sideways into the anchored boats.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Cool maneuver! You should be a rescue chopper pilot!

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TakeFive
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Response Posted - 07/09/2011 : 09:22:30

For me, the coolest coincidence was how the current turned at exactly the right time, leaving us right offshore from the race track where the fireworks were set off.

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