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On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:25:21 -0400, A Boater wrote:

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There has never been that much of real interest to me here, any way. I
stopped in to see what was here, and just stuck around because Peyton
Place is off the air. I get a lot of attention here too, or I probably
would have moved on long ago. I'll be here as long as the idiot trust
continues to entertain me. Calling me names and telling me to **** off
is always welcome and an invitation to stick around to see what comes
next. I think if they want to really get me to leave, they will have
to cease ALL posting for a month or two. Eventually I would stop
checking if it really looked stone dead for a long period.

Anything short of that is just encouraging me at this point.

I wouldn't mind an ongoing discussion of boating along the Connecticut
shore of LI Sound. I spent most of my summers there as a kid, and I
still have friends who live and boat along the shore from Milford to
just shy of Guilford. My oldest buddy, who helped me close down my
father's boating businesses, has an A-Frame cottage in the Burwell's
Beach part of Woodmont.

We hung out he

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...0/woodmont.jpg


The mini-mansions in the center to the right of the map at one point
belonged to the Poli family, which owned theaters all over the United
States. They sold out to Loew's. These mansions are all about 80 years
old now, I guess. The big one on the point was the summer house of the
Poli family. They had a movie theater and a bowling alley in the
basement. Last time I was there, the big house had been given to a group
of nuns as a retreat. I suppose the rest of the fancy houses were sold
off individually.

Our place was far, far more modest.

Anyway, these were great boating and fishing waters way back then.

Those red roofs are a well known landmark. One of my more frequent
spots for a weekend overnighter is to anchor behind Charles Island.

Another fav that I visit several times a month is the Thimbles. Once
you get there, it's easy to imagine you have sailed to Maine.



Ever been on Charles Island? Pretty island. Fishing on the south side
(where you anchored) was pretty good.

I had a friend whose family kept a nice sailboat at the Branford Yacht
Club, and when I got to go sailing with them, the Thimbles were a
frequent day trip destination for a picnic and swimming.

If you ever decide to come in close to those red roofs, be aware there
are at least a half dozen large rock outcroppings just below the surface
at high tide, in addition to the big one just beyond the big mansion's
point. In fact, the outcroppings continue east just past Anchor Beach.

At very low tides, some interesting details were revealed!