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On Feb 8, 9:04 am, Wayne.B wrote:
On 7 Feb 2007 20:30:55 -0800, "King5899" wrote:

I just purchased a '98 Sundancer 250 with a single 5.7 EFI/Bravo
III.
The boat is in excellent condition, and a full hull and engine
survey
proved it was quite the solid boat, with many hours to go on it.
While
sitting waiting up here in the northeast for the weather to warm
up I
keep reading more and more about fishing off the Jersey shore. I
have
read articles about catching Tuna, Dolphin and all sorts of
interesting fish in locations like the Mud hole, which is 15 miles
offshore. I purchased the boat primarily as a Hudson river and bay
boat for the family,

The Sundancer 250 is a good river and bay boat but you will soon
discover that it has its limitations there also. It was not
designed
as an off shore boat so it is severly weather limited for that use.

I agree with all of the previous advice: radar, liferaft, EPIRB,
kicker engine, navigation courses, SeaTow membership, etc.

In addition, I would encourage you to get a lot more experience
with
the boat and its equipment. Over time you will get a much better
appreciation for what it can and can not do safely, and you will
gain
experience in how to manage difficult conditions.

The Jersey shore is a dangerous place in conditions that are only
moderately severe. The inlets can have breaking seas even when the
wind is not blowing, all it takes is a large swell and an outgoing
tide. 25 foot boats get rolled and people lost every year after
getting caught by an inopportune breaking wave.

Great point. It's like working the Charlestown Breachway.
Perfectly
calm day outside, six foot breakers on the tide going into.

Tough to do in a smallish boat.

Do new boaters still get all nervous about passing through Plum Gut on
a
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Yes, new boaters are nervous about the Plum Gut
and I go there all the time. It's a hop, skip and a jump
from the Stonington launch ramp at Barn Island.

My sister considered it to be like an amusement park ride. But, she was
not
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I know boaters who think running the East Passage of
Narraganset Bay in a SW wind seas 4 to 6 as fun.

While I've done it, I didn't consider it fun.


Don't remember that, but since I was a kid, I probably just imprinted stuff
that would've made for a good sitcom.

- Wandering into that submarine practice zone, IIRC west of Block Island.
Dad said "Nah..that's not where we are." I'd just taken the power squadron
course, and I was positive we were in the zone. We're puttering along,
trolling for stripers or something, and a half mile away, a sub surfaces,
contacts us, and politely re-educates my dad. I said nothing. I don't know
what he was thinking. Maybe "Hey - I'm ex-Navy. I'm allowed".

- Demo of why plastic dishes are good on boats: Dad didn't care if winds
from a certain direction always meant crazy water (even for a 42' Owens). Ex
torpedo bomber pilots have no fear, apparently. So, one day, north of Orient
Point, things got interesting. The boat was all over the place. The first
sign of trouble was when my mom's stoneware dishes became too much for the
latches on the cabinets below. Big noise, all dishes declared dead. Then, my
sister brings the Chapman book up to the bridge and points out the artist's
rendering of pitchpoling. She had a weird sense of timing. My younger sister
slept through the whole thing.

- Townsend marina, Greenport: Dad & mechanic standing in bilge of 32' Luhrs,
95 degrees, mosquitoes as thick as pea soup, oil up to their ankles. I
must've been nagging him for bait money or some such thing - I don't recall.
He climbs out of the bilge, says "Get over here", I follow him to the bow,
where he picks me up and tosses me into the water. Much laughter from
adjacent boats. No more kid noise till engine was fixed. :-)