When I was a teenager, we would sail a small 16 ft skiff across Buzzards Bay
and camp on the sw shore of Weepecket Island. Nice beach there and we would
be, or thought we were just outside the circle for the restricted area. It
was a great camping on the beach. One year it was over the 4th of July
weekend, we had our own fireworks with a bonfire of drift wood near the high
tide mark. Sometimes we had as many of 6 boats of teens camping. Now the
mentality is do not pass Go and it is directly to jail. Fond memories as we
sit there with Edith and Archie and sing, "Those Were the Days."

Leanne

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On Sep 1, 2:58 pm, wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:08:28 -0700 (PDT), "
... Are there any places you can get
ashore for camping in Connecticut during the summer?

Anywhere you don't get caught! My first cruising experiences were as a
teenager in the 1960's in various small, often wooden, and always
decrepit, sailboats. I would sail to "somewhere" and camp on shore.
Usually sans tent. If the weather was especially bad, I would unstep
the mast and turn the boat over for shelter. ...

Very cool. I grew up reading the Ransome books and Capt. Voss and so
on and have always had a romantic vision of small boat camping.

-- Tom.