Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:02:02 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 18:37:42 -0400, "Eisboch"
wrote:

"Reginald P. Smithers III" wrote in message
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It really isn't a problem, especially if you know the secret. When I
purchased my first new boat the dealer told me the secret, and it is
very very easy.

And the secret is:

Don't take your single engined I/O boat out in any winds in excess of 20
mph.
Piffle.

Why I've been known to take my Ranger out in creasting 50 foot waves.

Up hill.

Both ways.
Ah, huh.

And I took my 16 foot Whaler Dauntless across Cape Cod Bay to Provincetown
and back a few years ago.

Upon my return, I crawled up on terra firma and kissed sweet earth.

LOL!!!

Totally understand.

I've done a couple of really - well, let's call it what it was: STUPID
- things in my day.

I took my Ranger out to the SW ledge off Block once on a decent day.
By the time I got back to Point Judith after a breeze kicked up, I
swore on a stack of bibles I'd never do that again.

And there was the time when I was a retarded teenager and took my 13
foot Boston Whaler Sport with two buddies out to Halfway Rock - in
theory for fluke fishing.

We were finally picked up by the Harbor Patrol boat after they noticed
us trying to get back in 2 footers and a stiff breeze. :)




Ha! When I was about 10, I sailed my Sunfish from Woodmont, CT, to Port
Jefferson, LI. I got "beached" for the rest of the season.