Finally Heading South
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Glad life and vessel are going good for you. I did sell my 50' Cherubini in Dec. at Thunderbolt Marina to a couple from Atlanta area. They are putting a lot of time and upgrading all systems. Glad to see her in good hands. The bottom zinc in my heat exchanger had broken off and wedged across water outlet, so in the last 3-400 RPM prior to WOT she would over heat. A Tech from Williams Company did great job finding and fixing. Starting to look for 36' GB now. Enjoy the warmth. Ron T.
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And so it begins again. Left Crisfield, MD this morning at 4 am in route to Fort Myers, FL. With hurricane Matthew little more than a week past, thought I would add some more pictures to this thread to highlight sites along the way and maybe some of the effects of the hurricane. Should be in Norfolk this afternoon and have dinner with TF friends. Unfortunately, Dismal Swamp canal is still closed due to high water levels and possibly downed trees in the water way. So there will be some new pics from the Albemarle and Chesapeake canal. Stay tuned.
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Safe travels my friend. Looking forward to following your journey!
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You're missing some of the best cruising on the Chessie. The Rappahannock and York rivers especially this time of year are golden - literally. I know not everyone can be retired.
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I'm counting on you to arrange some nice Fall weather for me at Palm Coast.
Ted
You got it Ted. About 80 degrees today, sunny and low humidity. Today I shall be painting the rest of the topside stripes taking them from an ugly faded blue to Grand Banks Beige. You are obviously having more fun than me! LOL!!
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Be prepared for Stuart and the Okeechobee waterway, Ted. Due to the lake dumping, your gonna run into lots of Green Tide on the East side and we've got plenty of symtomatic fish kills occurring over here on the Gulf side resulting from sewage dumping. Brown Tide or Red tide blooms could be on the rise again. Anyway, welcome back to paradise!
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You got it Ted. About 80 degrees today, sunny and low humidity. Today I shall be painting the rest of the topside stripes taking them from an ugly faded blue to Grand Banks Beige. You are obviously having more fun than me! LOL!!
Heck, we have clear blue and 72 here in Jersey.....painting decks today...
January down there is the place to be....up here in Sept and the first half of Oct is the place to be...
It is the travel at somewhere between walking and slow biking speed that gets old if you don't have lots of good stops planned...
Heck, we have clear blue and 72 here in Jersey.....painting decks today...
January down there is the place to be....up here in Sept and the first half of Oct is the place to be...
It is the travel at somewhere between walking and slow biking speed that gets old if you don't have lots of good stops planned...
Wifey B: 84 degrees here today and 93 degrees tomorrow. No, not South Florida. In St. Louis. Can you believe this is October. So nice. Everyone warned how frigid and awful October would be. Well, we did have one cold day and two nights on the Illinois River, but otherwise great.
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Safe travels Ted!!!
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Have a great trip, Ted! Are you running solo?
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Yes it's very nice on the Chesapeake this time of year. Went up the Pocomoke river Wednesday and Thursday to Snow Hill. Had a great; lots of good kayaking up there. Will put up a thread about it when I get a blow day.
You got it Ted. About 80 degrees today, sunny and low humidity. Today I shall be painting the rest of the topside stripes taking them from an ugly faded blue to Grand Banks Beige. You are obviously having more fun than me! LOL!!
The joys of boat ownership.
I know; I put 18 months in refitting mine.All that will be cleared up and gone before I get there.
Thanks!
Thanks! As a friend of mine put it "A crew of one".
Ted
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What, no Miss Callender?
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Safe enjoyable trip south -southwest!
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This mornings pics between the Great Bridge lock and the bridge.
There is a free dock between the lock and the bridge that filled just before I arrived. Boatpocker was very generous and allowed me to raft off Dirt Free (a very nice boat). Caught up with Hmason and had a nice dinner together. It seems that hardly a day goes by that you don't see someone from TF on the AICW.
Ted
There is a free dock between the lock and the bridge that filled just before I arrived. Boatpocker was very generous and allowed me to raft off Dirt Free (a very nice boat
). Caught up with Hmason and had a nice dinner together. It seems that hardly a day goes by that you don't see someone from TF on the AICW.Ted
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Yes, that was my boat going by. The hull is "Ice Blue"; superstructure is "Mattahorn White"; cap rail is "Corinthian Blue". Your boat caught my eye as I went by. Not because it was good looking and very shiny, but because they're supposed to be out crossing some ocean or rounding some horn, not traveling the protected waters of the ICW.
They look very stout, wherever they are. Ted
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Hope so. Last year we had a Royal Caribbean cruise in January that we had to work around. This year no schedule at all other than heading to the east coast of Fl for about six weeks Dec-January best guess.
We tried to get to marathon last year but weather was awful. New to the rendezvous thing.
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Questions : why is it when you pull into a protected bay and anchor this far away from the first boat,
and most boats anchor this far away from you,
that somebody feels the need to anchor 75' from you?
Hope early departures don't bother him.
Ted
and most boats anchor this far away from you,
that somebody feels the need to anchor 75' from you?
Hope early departures don't bother him.
Ted
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Here are this evenings sunset pics from Camden Bay at the South end of the Albemarle and Chesapeake canal:
If that doesn't make you want to go cruising, sell your boat.
Ted
If that doesn't make you want to go cruising, sell your boat.
Ted
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