On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:48:10 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

Took friends out on the Legend yesterday on beautiful St Margarets Bay.
Paid the $15.00 to use the launch ramp at a local marina and since it was launching on an ebbing tide with retrieval on low tide, it was money well spent.
I could pull the boat off and back on the trailer with it's bow and stern lines. What a treat...no driving off and on.
Lots of parking for the rig too.

Headed out from the marina to the open bay but the wind has picked up and the chop was up to a couple of feet.
Turned around when the wives complained about spray coming up and over them in the back seat.
You think they would have been refreshed by the nice cool 55 to 60 degree salt water.
We went the other way up to the head off the bay, then returned to a small island where our guest hit a rock with the skeg of the 60 Big Foot.
D'oh! We were going slow so I think the only damage was paint scraping on the skegs bottom and the soft aluminum grounded a bit.
A bit of filing and a touch applicator should cure that.
We beached the boat to spend a bit of time on the small sandy beach of Clam Island.
All in all it was a good boating day. Next time I hope for calmer seas.

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Looking at St Margarets Bay on Google Earth, it appears to be about 12
miles long by about 7 miles wide with little opportunity for
protection. That's quite a lot of open water for a boat your size.
The west side of Mahone Bay near Martins Point looks like it would
offer some interesting boating in and among the islands near there, as
well as offering some protection from bigger waves. What about
Porters Lake - that looks interesting also, as least on Google Earth.