On Sep 1, 1:35*pm, wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:59:24 -0700 (PDT), "
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Sorry, your first response inthis thtread came across as a very smug,
"USCG cert means I know everything attitude. It was all downhiill from
there.

Oh. I didn't intent to suggest that at all. It is certainly not
true. My writing skills are pretty grim and I have got a particularly
poor handle on inflection. It doesn't surprise me that screwed it up
but the smugness wasn't intentional. Thanks for pointing it out and
I'm sorry for the mistake.

....
I don't have any desire to PWC in CT and doubt that many other
cruisers do either.

I sense a post from PWC Cruiser, Rich Forman, coming along shortly!

My bad. I look forward the post though. Actually, now that I think of
it, a PWC camping cruise along the inside passage might be a hoot but
CT still doesn't draw me for PWCing. Are there any places you can get
ashore for camping in Connecticut during the summer?

-- Tom.

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:08:28 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Sep 1, 1:35*pm, wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:59:24 -0700 (PDT), "
...
Sorry, your first response inthis thtread came across as a very smug,
"USCG cert means I know everything attitude. It was all downhiill from
there.

Oh. I didn't intent to suggest that at all. It is certainly not
true. My writing skills are pretty grim and I have got a particularly
poor handle on inflection. It doesn't surprise me that screwed it up
but the smugness wasn't intentional. Thanks for pointing it out and
I'm sorry for the mistake.


Glad we got things back on track. This is much better.

...
I don't have any desire to PWC in CT and doubt that many other
cruisers do either.

I sense a post from PWC Cruiser, Rich Forman, coming along shortly!

My bad. I look forward the post though. Actually, now that I think of
it, a PWC camping cruise along the inside passage might be a hoot but
CT still doesn't draw me for PWCing. Are there any places you can get
ashore for camping in Connecticut during the summer?


Anywhere you don't get caught! My first cruising experiences were as a
teenager in the 1960's in various small, often wooden, and always
decrepit, sailboats. I would sail to "somewhere" and camp on shore.
Usually sans tent. If the weather was especially bad, I would unstep
the mast and turn the boat over for shelter. I really miss those days.
I was the only sailor and camper in my immediate family. Even today, I
sometimes leave everyone behind, and go away by myself for a few days
of solitude on the water. Nicer boat, now...

On Sep 1, 2:58*pm, wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:08:28 -0700 (PDT), "
...*Are there any places you can get
ashore for camping in Connecticut during the summer?

Anywhere you don't get caught! My first cruising experiences were as a
teenager in the 1960's in various small, often wooden, and always
decrepit, sailboats. I would sail to "somewhere" and camp on shore.
Usually sans tent. If the weather was especially bad, I would unstep
the mast and turn the boat over for shelter. ...

Very cool. I grew up reading the Ransome books and Capt. Voss and so
on and have always had a romantic vision of small boat camping.

-- Tom.

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:19:50 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Sep 1, 2:58*pm, wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:08:28 -0700 (PDT), "
...*Are there any places you can get
ashore for camping in Connecticut during the summer?

Anywhere you don't get caught! My first cruising experiences were as a
teenager in the 1960's in various small, often wooden, and always
decrepit, sailboats. I would sail to "somewhere" and camp on shore.
Usually sans tent. If the weather was especially bad, I would unstep
the mast and turn the boat over for shelter. ...

Very cool. I grew up reading the Ransome books and Capt. Voss and so
on and have always had a romantic vision of small boat camping.

-- Tom.

If I was going to try it now, I think I would find myself a Dovekie.
They seem ideal for that style of cruising. A little too big to drag
up into the bushes to hide it, though!

On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:27:11 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:19:50 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Sep 1, 2:58*pm, wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:08:28 -0700 (PDT), "
...*Are there any places you can get
ashore for camping in Connecticut during the summer?

Anywhere you don't get caught! My first cruising experiences were as a
teenager in the 1960's in various small, often wooden, and always
decrepit, sailboats. I would sail to "somewhere" and camp on shore.
Usually sans tent. If the weather was especially bad, I would unstep
the mast and turn the boat over for shelter. ...

Very cool. I grew up reading the Ransome books and Capt. Voss and so
on and have always had a romantic vision of small boat camping.

-- Tom.

If I was going to try it now, I think I would find myself a Dovekie.
They seem ideal for that style of cruising. A little too big to drag
up into the bushes to hide it, though!

We used to know a couple from Manhasset Bay who were well known for
their "stealth camping" exploits in and around Long Island Sound.
They'd land somewhere with their back packing gear and just hide out
for a few days.

On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:38:08 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:27:11 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:19:50 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Sep 1, 2:58*pm, wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:08:28 -0700 (PDT), "
...*Are there any places you can get
ashore for camping in Connecticut during the summer?

Anywhere you don't get caught! My first cruising experiences were as a
teenager in the 1960's in various small, often wooden, and always
decrepit, sailboats. I would sail to "somewhere" and camp on shore.
Usually sans tent. If the weather was especially bad, I would unstep
the mast and turn the boat over for shelter. ...

Very cool. I grew up reading the Ransome books and Capt. Voss and so
on and have always had a romantic vision of small boat camping.

-- Tom.

If I was going to try it now, I think I would find myself a Dovekie.
They seem ideal for that style of cruising. A little too big to drag
up into the bushes to hide it, though!

We used to know a couple from Manhasset Bay who were well known for
their "stealth camping" exploits in and around Long Island Sound.
They'd land somewhere with their back packing gear and just hide out
for a few days.

It's a lot of fun - or it was back when I was doing it. Things are a
lot more crowded now. I used to do something similar when riding
motorcycles. I would simply pull off the road behind available cover
at night. Nowdays, that might be kind of dangerous.

When I was a teenager, we would sail a small 16 ft skiff across Buzzards Bay
and camp on the sw shore of Weepecket Island. Nice beach there and we would
be, or thought we were just outside the circle for the restricted area. It
was a great camping on the beach. One year it was over the 4th of July
weekend, we had our own fireworks with a bonfire of drift wood near the high
tide mark. Sometimes we had as many of 6 boats of teens camping. Now the
mentality is do not pass Go and it is directly to jail. Fond memories as we
sit there with Edith and Archie and sing, "Those Were the Days."

Leanne

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On Sep 1, 2:58 pm, wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 14:08:28 -0700 (PDT), "
... Are there any places you can get
ashore for camping in Connecticut during the summer?

Anywhere you don't get caught! My first cruising experiences were as a
teenager in the 1960's in various small, often wooden, and always
decrepit, sailboats. I would sail to "somewhere" and camp on shore.
Usually sans tent. If the weather was especially bad, I would unstep
the mast and turn the boat over for shelter. ...

Very cool. I grew up reading the Ransome books and Capt. Voss and so
on and have always had a romantic vision of small boat camping.

-- Tom.