F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 7/23/13 12:15 PM, True North wrote:
On Tuesday, 23 July 2013 12:33:10 UTC-3, Wayne. B wrote:
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.

Porters lake is a good spot to power boat.
Only the lower portion closest to the ocean is good for 20' or so
sailboats.
Wind is better there plus the three bridges are much too low for any
size mast.
(not even counting the very low bridge on the lowest part of the lake)
My sister and her family have a good size piece of land there and
I've posted videos of my Princecraft tied up to brother-in-laws dock
and him using his Kubota machine and old dump truck to clear the land.
Trouble is..I get bored quickly on fresh water lakes.
Probably because on most of the local ones you only see cottages or
the occasional home vs the bays and harbours where there is a lot
more going on.


Plenty of people with boats smaller than yours boat on Long Island
Sound and in the Atlantic Ocean.
So there are plenty of dumb people on the water, eh?