On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 00:35:07 -0500, Eisboch
wrote:

LaBomba182 wrote:
Subject: I have a crazy wife
From: Eisboch


Small genset (4 kw) no air conditioning.


Will you be cruising on it while in FL?

Capt. Bill


Very, very doubtful. I suspect it will used here in MA, mostly sitting
in the slip as a gathering place for the "girls" with an occasional
weekend trip to Martha's Vineyard, Cuttyhunk or Nantucket. Any cruising
in Florida will be on the Navigator.

I was thinking that you almost have to plan trips on this GB as if it
were a sailboat. The Cape Cod Canal is known for very strong currents -
as much as 7 kts or so as the tide changes. If she were to head north
towards Cape Cod Bay at the wrong time in the canal, she could end up
returning before she left.

Talk about set and drift.

I've had problems up around the railroad bridge in the Contender at
the wrong tide. Nothing like the Blynman Bridge over the Annisquam up
in Gloucester though. Or the entrance to the Merrimack in Newburyport
in a NE wind. :)

Later,

Tom