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Best East Coast Summer Cruising Grounds
I have some air miles that I need to use up and would like to charter
a boat on the east cost of the United States next summer. I am looking for a place with wind; more than anything else, I dislike using the motor to get around. I expect to anchor every night and don't intend to go on any offshore passages. Cute little ports are nice if you need to pick up groceries or a little resturaunt food. I also like anchoring at state parks that have day hikes. Chesapeake Bay looks promising or Florida may have something to offer as well but I have little idea about the wind and park situation. Dean |
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Best East Coast Summer Cruising Grounds
Dean B wrote:
I have some air miles that I need to use up and would like to charter a boat on the east cost of the United States next summer. I am looking for a place with wind; more than anything else, I dislike using the motor to get around. Two words... Buzzards Bay. I expect to anchor every night and don't intend to go on any offshore passages. Cute little ports are nice if you need to pick up groceries or a little resturaunt food. I also like anchoring at state parks that have day hikes. Chesapeake Bay looks promising or Florida may have something to offer as well but I have little idea about the wind and park situation. Neither have much wind in the summer, and both are often beastly hot. Actually the lower Chesapeake is a bit more reliable for sea breeze in the summer, but it still gets hot and it doesn't compare with the daily hurricane on Buzzards Bay. There, and Cape Hattaras (which is not at all a good place for sailing.... windsurfing, yes) are the two best places for wind I know of on the East Coast. Fresh Breezes- Doug King |
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Best East Coast Summer Cruising Grounds
Dean B wrote:
I have some air miles that I need to use up and would like to charter a boat on the east cost of the United States next summer. I am looking for a place with wind; more than anything else, I dislike using the motor to get around. Two words... Buzzards Bay. I expect to anchor every night and don't intend to go on any offshore passages. Cute little ports are nice if you need to pick up groceries or a little resturaunt food. I also like anchoring at state parks that have day hikes. Chesapeake Bay looks promising or Florida may have something to offer as well but I have little idea about the wind and park situation. Neither have much wind in the summer, and both are often beastly hot. Actually the lower Chesapeake is a bit more reliable for sea breeze in the summer, but it still gets hot and it doesn't compare with the daily hurricane on Buzzards Bay. There, and Cape Hattaras (which is not at all a good place for sailing.... windsurfing, yes) are the two best places for wind I know of on the East Coast. Fresh Breezes- Doug King |
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Best East Coast Summer Cruising Grounds
If you can handle a somewhat more challenging environment, Maine is the absolute
best summer cruising ground on the East Coast. "Dean B" wrote in message om... I have some air miles that I need to use up and would like to charter a boat on the east cost of the United States next summer. I am looking for a place with wind; more than anything else, I dislike using the motor to get around. I expect to anchor every night and don't intend to go on any offshore passages. Cute little ports are nice if you need to pick up groceries or a little resturaunt food. I also like anchoring at state parks that have day hikes. Chesapeake Bay looks promising or Florida may have something to offer as well but I have little idea about the wind and park situation. Dean |
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Best East Coast Summer Cruising Grounds
If you can handle a somewhat more challenging environment, Maine is the absolute
best summer cruising ground on the East Coast. "Dean B" wrote in message om... I have some air miles that I need to use up and would like to charter a boat on the east cost of the United States next summer. I am looking for a place with wind; more than anything else, I dislike using the motor to get around. I expect to anchor every night and don't intend to go on any offshore passages. Cute little ports are nice if you need to pick up groceries or a little resturaunt food. I also like anchoring at state parks that have day hikes. Chesapeake Bay looks promising or Florida may have something to offer as well but I have little idea about the wind and park situation. Dean |
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Best East Coast Summer Cruising Grounds
Buzzards/Nantucket sound if you want to be able to swim and go to high
end shore attractions. Penobscott bay area otherwise. -- |
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Best East Coast Summer Cruising Grounds
Buzzards/Nantucket sound if you want to be able to swim and go to high
end shore attractions. Penobscott bay area otherwise. -- |
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Best East Coast Summer Cruising Grounds
I'll stick my neck out and put in a plug for our beloved Eastern SC
from Winyah Bay at Georgetown down to the Georgia Border, but away from Savannah's waste dumps. There's 3200 miles of navigable waterways, many under sail, within 50 miles of my keyboard, here on the Ashley River at Charleston. Away from the city, you can motor or sail for hours and hardly see another soul. In behind many of our UNINHABITED oceanfront islands, whos nearest roads are sometimes 10 miles to the west, you can anchor out in channels behind them NOT in view of an ICW marker or its traffic, dingy ashore and walk around to your own personal Atlantic beach, where the only other beachgoers either have shells or feathers or scales. None of them play rap music on a ghettoblaster, but may walk over your unguarded blanket and steal your food. We'd appreciate it if the only thing you left on our beach is your footprints. Thanks! Pull out your charts and have a look. Remember the ocean is SOUTHEAST of you, not east, here...(c; 15 miles from Charleston is complete desolation in any direction from the Harbor. "Quiet anchorage" means never hearing another boat at all! Every time I've gone to Florida, I find it as relaxing as driving your limo down Broadway in NYC during rush hour. Every time we got out of the ICW channel, we went aground with a 5' draft. They call it "Saving the Manatees". On 16 Jan 2004 14:51:05 -0800, (Dean B) wrote: I have some air miles that I need to use up and would like to charter a boat on the east cost of the United States next summer. I am looking for a place with wind; more than anything else, I dislike using the motor to get around. I expect to anchor every night and don't intend to go on any offshore passages. Cute little ports are nice if you need to pick up groceries or a little resturaunt food. I also like anchoring at state parks that have day hikes. Chesapeake Bay looks promising or Florida may have something to offer as well but I have little idea about the wind and park situation. Dean Larry W4CSC |
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Best East Coast Summer Cruising Grounds
I'll stick my neck out and put in a plug for our beloved Eastern SC
from Winyah Bay at Georgetown down to the Georgia Border, but away from Savannah's waste dumps. There's 3200 miles of navigable waterways, many under sail, within 50 miles of my keyboard, here on the Ashley River at Charleston. Away from the city, you can motor or sail for hours and hardly see another soul. In behind many of our UNINHABITED oceanfront islands, whos nearest roads are sometimes 10 miles to the west, you can anchor out in channels behind them NOT in view of an ICW marker or its traffic, dingy ashore and walk around to your own personal Atlantic beach, where the only other beachgoers either have shells or feathers or scales. None of them play rap music on a ghettoblaster, but may walk over your unguarded blanket and steal your food. We'd appreciate it if the only thing you left on our beach is your footprints. Thanks! Pull out your charts and have a look. Remember the ocean is SOUTHEAST of you, not east, here...(c; 15 miles from Charleston is complete desolation in any direction from the Harbor. "Quiet anchorage" means never hearing another boat at all! Every time I've gone to Florida, I find it as relaxing as driving your limo down Broadway in NYC during rush hour. Every time we got out of the ICW channel, we went aground with a 5' draft. They call it "Saving the Manatees". On 16 Jan 2004 14:51:05 -0800, (Dean B) wrote: I have some air miles that I need to use up and would like to charter a boat on the east cost of the United States next summer. I am looking for a place with wind; more than anything else, I dislike using the motor to get around. I expect to anchor every night and don't intend to go on any offshore passages. Cute little ports are nice if you need to pick up groceries or a little resturaunt food. I also like anchoring at state parks that have day hikes. Chesapeake Bay looks promising or Florida may have something to offer as well but I have little idea about the wind and park situation. Dean Larry W4CSC |
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