Larry wrote:
"Armond Perretta" wrote ...

Really? Have you actually _tried_ it, or are you relying on a set of
assumptions? The "boat" thing, of course.

Motored the ICW from about Wilmington ...

DE or NC?

... to the ditch down the E Coast of
FL....BORING...except when the 6' keel was dragging and snagging the
crap on the bottom from no dredging. Florida was awful....a constant
series of no-wake zones to protect the manatees who are overrunning
the place. The "channel" at Lake Worth was very noteworthy. 6' is
too much draft for it.

You would benefit from just "pulling over" and enjoying the view. There is
no inherent superiority of one over the other when it comes to comparing
offshore to inshore to inland.

Boats belong OFFSHORE in the OCEAN, not in someone's backwater
bathtub.

Boats "belong" wherever the folks on board are enjoying themselves. People
do not, in general, like being dictated to when it comes to what they should
do to have fun.

I have over the years listened all too often to this kind of thing. If the
Water Rat could satisfy himself on a heavy dew, the rest of us should take
heed.

--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://home.comcast.net/~kerrydeare