"Armond Perretta" wrote:
Larry wrote:
"Armond Perretta" wrote ...

Really? Have you actually _tried_ it, or are you relying on a set of
assumptions? The "boat" thing, of course.

Motored the ICW from about Wilmington ...

DE or NC?

Yes I wondered the same thing.

... to the ditch down the E Coast of
FL....BORING...except when the 6' keel was dragging and snagging the

To have really boring IMHO you would be out in the middle of the ocean
with nothing to look at. Some people don't even like sailing in the
lower part of the Chesapeake as they think having the shore that far
away is boring.

crap on the bottom from no dredging. Florida was awful....a constant
series of no-wake zones to protect the manatees who are overrunning
the place. The "channel" at Lake Worth was very noteworthy. 6' is
too much draft for it.

I kind of agree that the manatees are not endangered. It is just that
this is the north end of their range, so there aren't as many here.
But even so, that's no reason to go running them down with a boat.
Why would a sailboat be concerned with a no-wake zone anyway? Wake?
What's that? Wakes are for motor boats.

You would benefit from just "pulling over" and enjoying the view. There is
no inherent superiority of one over the other when it comes to comparing
offshore to inshore to inland.

That's what I wanted to say, but you said it better.

Boats belong OFFSHORE in the OCEAN, not in someone's backwater
bathtub.

Boats "belong" wherever the folks on board are enjoying themselves. People
do not, in general, like being dictated to when it comes to what they should
do to have fun.

I have over the years listened all too often to this kind of thing. If the
Water Rat could satisfy himself on a heavy dew, the rest of us should take
heed.

grandma Rosalie