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Gloss
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Initially Posted - 07/03/2004 : 08:01:42

Happy fourth, and happy birthday America.

Anybody out there planning on watching a fireworks show from your boat?

Last year we watched fireworks from my cockpit and watched the show at my sailing club, and all the fireworks being fired off homeowners docks all up and down the lake. BTW fireworks are legal in Tennessee. We also enjoyed sipping cool frozen margaritas made from my 12 volt blender (one of those unnecessary electric gadgets)

But alas, this year I'm on call to the hospital and have to be ready to be there in 30 minutes, so I can't risk being in a traffic jam. It seems every year we get busy with emergency hand or eye surgery.
so be careful with your fireworks.

Tell us of your plans so I can live vicariously.

Frank Gloss
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RichardG
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Response Posted - 07/03/2004 : 10:07:34

We may watch the show at the Queen Mary.

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Oscar
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Response Posted - 07/03/2004 : 10:22:11

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Wonder if they are going to have fireworks in Lima, Peru tomorrow.......

Oscar
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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 07/03/2004 : 11:26:41

Vicki, Drew, and I plan to drink wine in the cockpit of "Even Chance" tomorrow evening and watch the fireworks across the Urbanna harbor. Tonight (Saturday) we're going to the Richmond Braves (AAA) game downtown and watch the fireworks show there.

It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

Brooke

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Bruce Ebling
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Response Posted - 07/03/2004 : 11:36:18

Every year here at Fern Ridge Resevoir in Eugene, OR the yacht club puts on a fireworks show. But as fun are the hundreds of people that line the parks and lakeside with their own fireworks. We raft up about 500 yds off the yacht club in a couple of giant rafts, everyone barbeques and all evening people are going from boat to boat to sample the foods and visit. When it gets totally dark it looks like a city over the lake with all of the anchor and running lights. There are near 100 to 150 boats out on the lake every year. It has become one of our favorite thing to do over the fourth.
Bruce Ebling
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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 07/03/2004 : 11:37:20

Yup... in Eureka (on Humboldt Bay) they fire the display off from a barge anchored out on the bay.

Lots of folks come down to the 'Bay Walk' that the city built along the waterfront to party and watch.

The barge will be anchored only be 1/4 mile from my slip in the marina so I may just stay put there. But the best show of all is to anchor just outside the safety perimeter... the concussions really rattle your bones when you can get that close and 'rain' of debris really adds to the ambience.

The great hope is that the fog doesn't come in and spoil the viewing (50-50 chance).

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Gloss
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Response Posted - 07/03/2004 : 12:55:52

Hey Oscar

Lima, Peru?????

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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 07/03/2004 : 14:00:54

I'm thinking about taking the grand-girlys to downtown Jax. Their parents have gone to the Firecracker 400. And The Admiral is up in VA 'till the 5th. City of Jax. uses a barge and also the drawbridges. Last time they raise the bridge and had a firey waterfall pouring off into the river. Lasted for twenty minutes at least. Way Cool!

And Frank, here's a story you can tell your patients. My younger brother was complaining about a big cut on his nose from a firecracker last year. Come to find out he had made his own out of a piece of 1/2" PVC and put an old fuse on it.

It blew up in his face before he could throw it. Sometimes I just cannot believe he is from the same stock.

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frogger
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Response Posted - 07/03/2004 : 15:26:32

If all goes well, weather etc., we will be watching a fireworks display on Lake Murray, SC. Should be starting around 9:00 pm.

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seastream
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Response Posted - 07/03/2004 : 21:50:53

We'll be up at Lake Winnipesaukee. Boat's back in the water after hitting a rock, causing minor keel damage.

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cclark
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Response Posted - 07/04/2004 : 00:14:41

We won't be on our C25, but we will be on my friend's Formosa 41 in Elliot Bay.
Chris

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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 07/04/2004 : 00:34:54

I had plans to be with my sailing club cruise on Folsom Lake this weekend, but my ongoing project on the boat's trailer - to modify the center crossmembers from swing to wing configuration - has spilled over to this weekend, so I am at home in the workshop fabricating and welding steel. It is taking longer than planned (don't all such projects?). However, Lake Tahoe does a big fireworks display over Labor Day weekend and we may take the boat up there for that show if enough other boats from my sailibng club want to go to make it worthwhile

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Gloss
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Response Posted - 07/04/2004 : 08:45:12

Hey Larry,
I feel your pain. I'm stuck being on call, so I'll be working on my Kitchen renovation.
I envy your ability to weld. I was thinking of buying a welder and taking some lessons at the local vocational school, if they give classes at night. so far I have been making shop drawings for the fabrications I need, and take them to the local misc. steel fabricator. They liked my shop drawings so much they offered me a job. But I'll stick to anesthesia.

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Chip Hunt
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Response Posted - 07/04/2004 : 14:17:29

Yup. I'll be anchored up in Charleston Harbor watching fireworks from 3 different locations at the same time (Mt.Pleasant, Sullivan's Island, and Charleston). Gonna have a few cold beers and grill hot-dogs. Gonna have 5 or 6 people on board. 89 degrees with winds at 10-12 mph from the Southwest. Looks to be a good day.

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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 07/05/2004 : 11:19:01

Hey Frank, I'm wondering what you use for drawing. I've been using TurboCAD for some years and really like it. It's like a tenth the cost of AutoCAD.

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frogger
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Response Posted - 07/05/2004 : 11:22:46

Watched a marvelous fireworks display from the cockpit. Absolutely perfect day and evening sail with 5-10 mph winds on into the night. First time to use the GPS to find way back after dark - right on the track!

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Brooke Willson
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Response Posted - 07/05/2004 : 11:34:49

As it turned out, we watched celestial fireworks from home: one thunderstorm after another moved through Virginia last night.

Brooke

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Gloss
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Response Posted - 07/05/2004 : 13:09:25

Ben,
I use old fashioned T square, triangles, scales and lots of sketch paper.
I can't be bothered to learn about cad systems since I'm no longer in the construction business. I do anesthesia now (Yeah, they are about as 180 degrees apart as you can get)
I bought my kitchen cabinets at Lowes and they have a great program to draw out your kitchen once you give them dimensions, and cabinet layout etc. You even get three dimension views. Very kewl (been readin Lattitudes and Attitudes)

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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 07/05/2004 : 13:45:00

I watched from a friend's condo by a marina in Norwalk... Every time the stinkpotters saw a burst they liked, they blew their damned horns! Sorta like being at a S. American soccer game. Anyway, it's amazing what those fireworks artists are coming up with--they get more creative every year!

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Scott L
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Response Posted - 07/05/2004 : 18:04:46

We didn't watch last nights fireworks from our boat but we are headed to Vancouver BC in August with Ahti in tow to experience the International Fireworks competition (part of the Festival of Light) from the waters of English Bay followed by some cruising in Indian Arm and Howe Sound. This is after the Nationals and a couple weeks in the San Juans. Seems like a pretty good trip for our first summer sailing

Thanks to the forum for all the help over the last several months, the boat is done, everything seems to be in order and soon we will blast off for points north.

I will post a trip report in the fall after we return.

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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 07/05/2004 : 18:39:17

I had planned to anchor my C-25 in the ocean, and watch the Cocoa Beach fireworks from there. I took the boat out Port Canaveral around noon, and had an enjoyable sail up and down the beach, staying well outside the breakers in about 20' to 30' of water. Winds were 10 to 15 knots, and seas 1' to 2' with occasional small whitecaps, conditions building as the day wore on. However, I was listening to the weather forecast on the VHF radio, and keeping an eye on the summer clouds piling up to the west over the enormous swamp of central Florida. Right about the time the fireworks barge was being towed out of the port, I decided to head back in because of the deteriorating weather with worse to come. By the time I was locking through into the Banana River at the west end of the port, the sky had turned ominously black with some impressive lightning visible. I was in the Banana River about half way home when the heavy rain and strong winds arrived suddenly. I dropped anchor right where I was, and ate my dinner while the worst of the storm passed. I watched the Cocoa Beach fireworks from there, just under a mile away, and spent the night at anchor, arriving back home early (this) next morning. I would have liked to have been closer to the fireworks, but not badly enough to get locked out in the ocean for the night in rough weather! (The locks closed for the night just after the fireworks were scheduled to end.)

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Esteban
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Response Posted - 07/05/2004 : 19:18:49

Watched the fire works from the bow of Tally Ho! on Middle River MD. The show was quite stunning and off course the river was packed. The winds picked up quite a bit and the waves were bobbing us about a bit as we kept swaying side to side from our anchor.

We had some real excitement when the six or so boats tied together in front of us lost their anchor and started heading straight for us. At night this can be a touch disorienting and they missed us by 30 yards or so all while they were scrambling to regain some control. Made for an entertaining evenning. Fireworks, dinner and a show.

Esteban

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Tony Dillon
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Response Posted - 07/05/2004 : 22:18:11

We watched the fireworks on Mental Floss over at Dockton Park on Vashon Island. Had a beautiful evening with plenty of afternoon sunburns and boat drinks to go around. Vashon Island has a nice display plus you can see both of Seattle's shows in the distance.

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Doug
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Response Posted - 07/06/2004 : 00:03:42

We tried for Dockton but it was standing room only. We ended up spending two nights on the boat at our dock in Tacoma. We did go out Sunday night and sailed in circles until the fireworks started. Then we just drifted and watched the show. Was a great show.

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thacket3
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Response Posted - 07/06/2004 : 09:46:34

Watched the Miami fireworks to port, Miami Beach to Starboard and Key Biscayne behind us. In the distance the city of North Bay Village put on a nice show too.

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Dan86
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Response Posted - 07/06/2004 : 23:02:22

Watched a beautiful display from the bow of my 86, with my son (4) who thought it was the most awesome thing he had ever seen!!! A great evening on the boat with my boy!.

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