"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"HK" wrote in message
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Ha! When I was about 10, I sailed my Sunfish from Woodmont, CT, to Port
Jefferson, LI. I got "beached" for the rest of the season.


My best friend and I would tell our respective parents that we were going
"camping".
This was at the age of about 12. We'd pack up food, sleeping bags and a
tent and head off, the parents thinking we were in the nearby woods
someplace.

Little did they know that our camping trips were on a 12 foot aluminum
boat
out to Rainsford Island in Boston Harbor (launching from the South Shore).
We smuggled our Daisy BB guns along for the trip to shoot at the rats and
keep them out of the tent.

Eisboch


Reminds me of the time my BVI buddy and I took a little 8 foot punt and
rowed to MacNabs Island in the harbour.
It was quite windy that day, really big swells hitting us head on...couldn't
see anything but water when in the trough.
He rowed the whole way while I sat in the back eating all the cookies his
grandmother packed for us.
We reached the east side of the island and had to drag/carry the boat along
a gravel road to the west side.
We were wasted. Finally at 2130 hrs we spotted the last sailboat leaving.
He agreed to let us come aboard and he towed the punt to the Pleasant Shoal
buoy where you either head up the main harbour or go up to one of the yacht
clubs on the Arm. We transfered into the punt at this point and rowed the
rest of the way home. Got into a bit of trouble as his mother had notified
the Coast Guard and they were preparing to start a search for us.
On a calm day it wouldn't have been a big deal.