Don White wrote:
wrote:
JimH wrote:
Sorry southerners, but this poll is for northern boaters only.
Answer these questions:
1. Is your boat in the water and/or ready to go?
Mine lives on a trailer but yes, I have been out riding it for I think
five weekends now, started the season on Apr. 2nd with a figure-eight
around Staten Island and Manhattan; rides have included an overnight
trip up the Hudson River and an afternoon swing around Fire Island just
this past weekend.
2. How much time did you spend prepping your boat for launch?
3. What exactly did you do/have done to the boat to prep it?
4. Did you do it yourself or contract it out?
Took it to the local dealership for their spring conditioning service,
they did a good job and provided good value on winterizing it last
winter. I guess for spring prep they check the condition of the
battery and that things are properly lubed and/or tightened. Up to
about 160 trouble-free hours on the Yamaha four-stroke now at the
beginning of its second season.
5. What size is your boat?
11 feet!
richforman
Do you brave 'Hell's Gate' on your boat?
All the time, on the way on our many day rides from the North shore of
Long Island up the Hudson River. (Traditionally, we used to launch for
those rides from Cold Spring Harbor, but recently my buddy has turned
me on to the ramp on the west shore of Hempstead Harbor, Bar Beach I
think it's called, that is worth the long extra drive in the car to get
to, because of how much closer it is to the Hudson and back and the end
of the day....in the late-afternoon chop that's usually the L.I. Sound
at the end of the riding day, it's nice to be coming under the Throg's
Neck, look at my handlebar-mounted gps and see there's only 6 miles
back to the launch spot instead of the 20 I used to see at that point.)
Another early season ride we've already done was from Orient Point to
the Connectut River and up that for maybe 40 miles and back....so it's
been a great start, we've already covered lots of ground and a bunch of
different places just in this "pre-season" part of the year.
Now I'm planning a second annual trip with my wife to go riding in the
Thousand Islands (St. Lawrence river) this summer, had said I couldn't
afford it this year but I'm finding if I just cut it shorter by a
couple days and stay in much cheaper Clayton rather than the
much-fancier Riverview hotel/marina in Alex. Bay that we stayed at for
a week last year....I can swing it.
richforman