A long cruise...
 

....well, long for me...10 hours on the new boat today, including a run
up to Bal'mer, lunch at the Inner Harbor, a look-see at the Dundalk
area, where a friend keeps his boat, and then across the Bay to Kent
Narrow and south to St. Michaels where we went ashore and looked at some
of "shoppes" for a couple hours. Got back to Deale around 6 pm, before
dark. Nothing broke, no disasters, and I got into our slip properly on
the second try. Practice helps the imperfect.
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A long cruise...
 

On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:07:19 -0400, Secular Humouresque
wrote:

...well, long for me...10 hours on the new boat today, including a run
up to Bal'mer, lunch at the Inner Harbor, a look-see at the Dundalk
area, where a friend keeps his boat, and then across the Bay to Kent
Narrow and south to St. Michaels where we went ashore and looked at some
of "shoppes" for a couple hours. Got back to Deale around 6 pm, before
dark. Nothing broke, no disasters, and I got into our slip properly on
the second try. Practice helps the imperfect.

Cool, some of our favorite places on the Chesapeake.

That would be a good post if you'd just left off your cutesy little
tag line.

If you are relying on Mrs K to help with the docking and undocking,
you might want to consider a set of these:

http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|344|302025|931035&id=1329045

We find them very useful and Defender has about the best price that
I've found.

A long cruise...
 

On 10/24/10 9:35 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 21:07:19 -0400, Secular Humouresque
wrote:

...well, long for me...10 hours on the new boat today, including a run
up to Bal'mer, lunch at the Inner Harbor, a look-see at the Dundalk
area, where a friend keeps his boat, and then across the Bay to Kent
Narrow and south to St. Michaels where we went ashore and looked at some
of "shoppes" for a couple hours. Got back to Deale around 6 pm, before
dark. Nothing broke, no disasters, and I got into our slip properly on
the second try. Practice helps the imperfect.

Cool, some of our favorite places on the Chesapeake.

That would be a good post if you'd just left off your cutesy little
tag line.

If you are relying on Mrs K to help with the docking and undocking,
you might want to consider a set of these:

http://www.defender.com/product.jsp?path=-1|344|302025|931035&id=1329045

We find them very useful and Defender has about the best price that
I've found.



The season is almost over here, and I've made a deal with the
dockboys...$10 cash for a little assist with line handling upon my
return to the slip. That works now because they aren't that busy. A few
more times and I should be ok. The new boat has a much higher wind
profile and that doesn't help. The boat will be hauled the week before
Thanksgiving.