"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:34:33 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


You have to rethink your expectations. Could you comfortably live aboard
the Contender for two or three weeks at a time? Kick back on the couch
and
watch a football game? Take a nooner in a comfortable, air conditioned
stateroom while Mrs. Wave prepares a full course meal in the galley?

Good points all and that's exactly how I need to approach this.


Another issue that I know you have a handle on, but affects most of us here
in the Northeast is dockage for larger boats. At Kingman, where I am, there
are probably 10 times as many slips for 36' and under boats as there are for
boats over 36'. And often, it's not just the length that makes finding a
slip difficult ... it's the beam. In Scituate, the town slips technically
were restricted to boats of 30' or less, but they made exceptions for some
that were bigger as long as the beam was 10' or less. When you start
getting into 15+ foot beams, the availability of slips in this part of the
country starts drying up fast.

Down south, however, a 15' beam boat is a peanut.

Eisboch