On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:25:15 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On 14 Sep 2008 21:02:02 -0500, Dave wrote:

I know quite a few people who HAVE sailed there that would disagree
with your assessment. It's not the Bronx, but it's not what Skip is
accustomed too, either.

Yes. I would have thought that City Island might have been preferable.

Little Neck Bay is fine for an overnight anchorage prior to getting an
early start down the East River - much better protection from the
prevailing winds and closer to Throggs Neck than City Island. I would
not moor a boat there permanently however. A friend of mine did that
for a few years back in the 80s and was broken into repeatedly.

Yeah, you "can" anchor there overnight. My warning is that you need to
be on your guard in a way that few boaters are accustomed to. That
means having a chain and padlock that you use on your dinghy when you
go ashore, and hoping that that is sufficient.

Plus, Skip is CRUISING, which for most people is about seeing new and
interesting NICE places. He sailed right by Cold Spring Harbor to
anchor in Little Neck Harbor. He's still there, so this was more than
a quick overnight way point. Sort of like going camping by parking
your RV in the Walmart parking lot.

"Ray Crock" wrote

You can't dock in City Island without shackles and thimbles in your dock
lines!

That one went over the backstop. Explain please?

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Roger Long

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:56:02 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

"Ray Crock" wrote

You can't dock in City Island without shackles and thimbles in your dock
lines!

That one went over the backstop. Explain please?

Don't worry, Roger. It's not worth the explanation.

"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
"Ray Crock" wrote

You can't dock in City Island without shackles and thimbles in your dock
lines!

That one went over the backstop. Explain please?

--
Roger Long




"Ray Crock" is just another sockpuppet for Neal, Wilber, Hall, etc., who's
using a free posting service as a doormat to spew his garbage. The reference
is to someone on a.s.a.

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Plus, Skip is CRUISING, which for most people is about seeing new
and
interesting NICE places. He sailed right by Cold Spring Harbor to
anchor in Little Neck Harbor. He's still there, so this was more
than
a quick overnight way point. Sort of like going camping by parking
your RV in the WalMart parking lot.




Just looks like I'm still there. Spot sucks; the enabling system is
convoluted and didn't work, where the "OK" message DID get out,
leaving PJ for LN.

We're in Atlantic Highlands after a very calm anchorage in Pt. Jeff
cuz we couldn't get to PW; we went to LN to get as close to our exit
as possible and it was, too, a lovely anchorage.

Too much going on; haven't had a chance to do a log - more details
when I do, about the anchorages, the last couple having been just a
place to throw the hook...

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"Skip Gundlach" wrote

Just looks like I'm still there. Spot sucks; the enabling system is
convoluted and didn't work, where the "OK" message DID get out, leaving PJ
for LN.


I've had no problems or missed tracking initiation since I learned to hold
the button down until the LED lights and then goes out. If you press the
button until the LED just comes on and then release before it goes out
again, it sends an OK message.

I always send an OK message after I anchor and then turn the unit off for
the night. In the morning, I turn it on, press and hold the button, and it
always goes into tracking mode reliably.

I admit that they could have done a better job on the user interface but
I've been very happy with mine. My review for "Points East" didn't make it
into the upcoming issue but may appear with the story of my August cruise
sometime this winter.

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Roger Long

Gogarty wrote in news:20080915-183106.101.0
@Gogarty.news.bway.net:

Little Neck Bay is a fine place to anchor out

No thanks.....We prefer lazing back adrift on Charleston Harbor or rafted
up in one of our many lovely estuaries with friends for the weekend.....

When the crabbers go by to tend their traps, we flag them down to buy
dinner....sometimes trading them glasses of some inebriating concoction
from the large coffee pot in exchange for the Blues in the basket....(c;

I couldn't take the pressure around NY. Charleston only had that much
"rush" during Hurricane Hugo!

Y'all stop by. Lotsa Yankees do! They seem to enjoy it.

Heah....try suma this mint julep.....(c;

Our clocks are set to "sometime".....

On 15 Sep 2008 11:27:01 -0500, Dave wrote:

The area on the
North end just south of High Island provides very decent protection. I
moored a boat there for several years.

So did I back in the early 70s - Bob Taylor's old "Offshore yacht
Club", followed by G&G Marine next to the ferry dock or something like
that. It was wicked rough there in a nor'easter or strong southerly,
and you had to watch out for the sunken barge, and the shoal behind
Rat Island.

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:07:17 +0000, Larry wrote:

Y'all stop by. Lotsa Yankees do! They seem to enjoy it.

Until the local tax collector takes a liking to your boat for some
inexplicable reason. It's a nice enough town but it will be a *long*
time before I take a boat there again.

Wayne.B wrote in
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On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:07:17 +0000, Larry wrote:

Y'all stop by. Lotsa Yankees do! They seem to enjoy it.

Until the local tax collector takes a liking to your boat for some
inexplicable reason. It's a nice enough town but it will be a *long*
time before I take a boat there again.



God, how long did you stay?!

We want Yankees to VISIT....not drop anchor until it rots!