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Back to kick around
I'm just back to kick around again after a perfect week, Strider's
first real cruise. Everything worked, nothing broke, beautiful weather, strong winds, great cruising companions. * Anchorages Portland (Start) Small Point Harbor* Bath Hell Gate Sheepscot River * Wiscasset Sheepscot River Pemaquid Harbor * Muscongus Bay Muscle Ridge Channel Rockland* Rockport Camden North Haven Island (North Side) Isle Au Haut Bay Fox Island Thorofare* Muscle Ridge Channel Tenants Harbor Musconcus Bay Friendship Bremen Long Island Broad Cove * Hockomock Channel Round Pond Pemaquid Christmas Cove Damariscove Island Seguin Island (Stop and tour) Atkins Bay* Sebasco Estates Cundys Harbor Sebascodegan (Fuel Stop at Great Island Boatyard) Orrs Island Potts Harbor Harpswell Harbor * Portland \ -- Roger Long |
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Roger Long wrote:
I'm just back to kick around again after a perfect week, Strider's first real cruise. Everything worked, nothing broke, beautiful weather, strong winds, great cruising companions. * Anchorages Portland (Start) Small Point Harbor* Bath Hell Gate Sheepscot River * Wiscasset Sheepscot River Pemaquid Harbor * Muscongus Bay Muscle Ridge Channel Rockland* Rockport Camden North Haven Island (North Side) Isle Au Haut Bay Fox Island Thorofare* Muscle Ridge Channel Tenants Harbor Musconcus Bay Friendship Bremen Long Island Broad Cove * Hockomock Channel Round Pond Pemaquid Christmas Cove Damariscove Island Seguin Island (Stop and tour) Atkins Bay* Sebasco Estates Cundys Harbor Sebascodegan (Fuel Stop at Great Island Boatyard) Orrs Island Potts Harbor Harpswell Harbor * Portland Looks like you had a great time exploring. Any interesting anecdotes come out of this cruise? Gary |
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Back to kick around
Well, the best anecdotes usually come out of mistakes and screw up.
Those of you who have followed my website and posts know I'm not shy about reporting mine so I hope not to get flamed for reporting that I have nothing to report except everything going incredibly smoothly for the first cruise of a boat in some fairly brisk conditions. Even the head cooperated. My crew, three women who had never cruised before, expressed surprise that such an apparent kludge of valves and pumps could work so well. We did snag two lobster pots which made me a bit less sanguine about that aspect of the boat. In both cases, however, it appeared to be two pots that had tangled their lines so that they were stretched at an unnatural direction. My system for getting free worked so well that the snags were not much more of an event than needing to reef. I have a hookknife on board but chose not to used it and be left wondering what might still be attached out of sight below. I'll use it if I snag near a lee shore and need to restore control quickly but the following method works very smoothly and quickly. I have a large bronze snap hook tied to a line a few feet longer than the boat. I fasten this to the end of a long extending boathook with duct tape. If the tape is applied to the rope and hook properly, the pole will guide the pot warp right into the hook. Once the line is hooked, which was very quick and easy in both cases, the pole is yanked free. Rolling up the jib and letting the main pull the warp tight brings it up where it can be seen or felt with the pole. Once the warp is clipped, the main is lowered and the line taken through a bow chock and back to a halyard winch on the mast. This pulls a bight of the warp forward and, in both cases, the buoy came with it. It was then just a matter of winching the buoy aboard, unclipping it, and getting underway again. -- Roger Long "Gary" wrote Any interesting anecdotes come out of this cruise? Gary |
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