Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:38:10 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

I hope you keep using it, it looks like a
nice fishing boat for the bay.

Actually Harry's previous boat, the pilot house Parker, was much
better suited to Chesapeake Bay. Except on the calmest days you don't
see many boats under 24 or 25 feet out there.


When the wind blows, Wayne's b.s. flows. On any weekend morning, there
are three to four dozen trucks with empty trailers near the launch ramp
at BP Marina, indicating guys out fishing, and at least half the slips
are empty, too. The trailerboats are for mostly 17-22' boats. When I
tried to raise you on the VHF last week, I was over on the other side of
the Bay, and for a while was in the middle of at least 40 small boats
and some larger boats, all bottom or drift fishing. Every day I've been
out in September and October, and I was out many times, there were
plenty of small boats out on the Bay.


We spent 4 weeks and
about 500 nautical miles criss crossing the Chesapeake in late
September through mid-October. There are some days when anything less
than 35 to 40 ft would be inappropriate.


There were very days in the time period you mentioned when a 35-40
footer was necessary to be safe on the water.

I think you've spent so much time on that overstuffed, old,
energy-wasting, slow-moving barge of yours, you have no idea of what fun
being out in a small boat can be.

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:53:37 -0400, HK wrote:

you have no idea of what fun
being out in a small boat can be.

Actually I have a very good idea, but I'm realistic about the
limitations also.

When the wind is over 10 to 12 kts there are few, if any, boats your
size on open water. That's OK if you want to be on the Patuxent River
those days but on the bay you need something bigger.

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:53:37 -0400, HK wrote:

you have no idea of what fun
being out in a small boat can be.

Actually I have a very good idea, but I'm realistic about the
limitations also.

When the wind is over 10 to 12 kts there are few, if any, boats your
size on open water.

More b.s. from wayne.

"HK" wrote in message
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Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:53:37 -0400, HK wrote:

you have no idea of what fun being out in a small boat can be.

Actually I have a very good idea, but I'm realistic about the
limitations also. When the wind is over 10 to 12 kts there are few, if
any, boats your
size on open water.

More b.s. from wayne.

These 'professional boaters' are really something these days....afraid of
their own shadow when the water is over their head.
Back in the good ole days fishermen would launch their dorys off the deck of
a schooner and fish in all types of weather.
http://www.atlantictallships.ca/tv.p...onID=45&lang=e

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:20:20 -0400, HK wrote:

When the wind is over 10 to 12 kts there are few, if any, boats your
size on open water.

More b.s. from wayne.

I guess anything is possible. We did see a 40 something Bayliner
going out Hatteras inlet the other day.

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:20:20 -0400, HK wrote:

When the wind is over 10 to 12 kts there are few, if any, boats your
size on open water.
More b.s. from wayne.

I guess anything is possible. We did see a 40 something Bayliner
going out Hatteras inlet the other day.


That must have been disheartening for you.

Let me know when you run Matanzas Inlet, or, if you haven't the balls or
experience for that, Nassau Sound Inlet.