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08-23-2017, 10:20 PM
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City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
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Originally Posted by Lou_tribal
4$/ft  Hope this include services, and the limo to do your grocery 
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Actually it does include electric, water, pump out, wifi, bikes and washers and dryers. A good deal.
It is Key West. Atlantis in Nassau is more. North Cove in NYC is more than either of them.
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08-23-2017, 11:13 PM
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City: Kitimat, North Coast BC
Vessel Name: Badger
Vessel Model: 30' Sundowner Tug
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We paid 50 cents a foot in Butedale and $20.00 for the breakwater floats in Shearwater during our two nights in towns this last trip, if you can call Butedale a town 
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08-23-2017, 11:21 PM
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#43
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City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
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Originally Posted by MurrayM
We paid 50 cents a foot in Butedale and $20.00 for the breakwater floats in Shearwater during our two nights in towns this last trip, if you can call Butedale a town |
When we were in the PNW and even more as we reached Alaska, it was hilarious to us to hear the occasional complaint about dock rates. We were so very shocked at how low the rates were. Just all relative. Didn't Einstein define some law of that nature?
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08-23-2017, 11:47 PM
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#44
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City: Adelaide
Vessel Name: Kokanee
Vessel Model: Cuddles 30 Pilot House Motor Sailer
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 3,215
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Originally Posted by Lou_tribal
No worry for your wallet, hospitality cannot be priced. If you get there I will welcome you in our favorite anchorage with a beer or wine glass or whatever you prefer (but if you ask for water you have the river  ). And do not worry about crowded anchorage, we did not see anybody there for the last 2 years, most of people don't even know you can anchor there.
But after, if you talk...  lol
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Thanks Lou,
I'm not sure if my present boat quite up for a circumnavigation, but if I get up there I'd love to share a La Fin du Monde with you.
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08-24-2017, 02:36 AM
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City: Sydney
Vessel Name: Sojourn
Vessel Model: Integrity 386
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 12,921
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The devil in me says find a great spot, mess up the odor emissions from your holding tank, voila!, paradise is yours alone. Though,on reflection, you might need a nose-peg yourself...
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2005 Integrity 386 "Sojourn"
Sydney Australia
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08-24-2017, 05:58 AM
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#46
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Senior Member
City: Florida
Vessel Model: 420AC Sea Ray
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 354
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Originally Posted by MurrayM
Holy-Moly!
We just got back from a 16 day trip and spent under $1000.00 fuel included. (Left with full tanks, filled up again on way home, and had two restaraunt meals on trip) Not being 'cheap', just staying out of towns/marinas.
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Originally Posted by BandB
Actually it does include electric, water, pump out, wifi, bikes and washers and dryers. A good deal.
It is Key West. Atlantis in Nassau is more. North Cove in NYC is more than either of them.
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It is also the last time we will go to Key West. The "marina" pool is shared by a restaurant. When we arrived there were two cruise ships in port. Needless to say, my two boys saw more than we ever bargained for when we walked past the pool. Never again.
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08-24-2017, 08:45 AM
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City: Kitimat, North Coast BC
Vessel Name: Badger
Vessel Model: 30' Sundowner Tug
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Originally Posted by k9medic
It is also the last time we will go to Key West. The "marina" pool is shared by a restaurant. When we arrived there were two cruise ships in port. Needless to say, my two boys saw more than we ever bargained for when we walked past the pool. Never again.
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Butedale is an isolated derelict salmon cannery rapidly being reabsorbed into BC's marine and temperate rainforest ecosystems that has some logs cabled together and plywood screwed on top for tieing up to. The caretaker asked for 50 cents a foot, so we paid a little more and gave him some canned pop as well. Interesting place to wander around and there's a nice trail to the old powerhouse and lake.
Shearwater has a proper marina for a higher price, but we felt more at home with the vagabond riff-raff sailboats and commercial fishing boats on the breakwater floats 
What was going on in the pool?
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08-24-2017, 03:09 PM
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City: Palm Coast, FL
Vessel Name: Coquina
Vessel Model: Lagoon 380
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 2,506
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Originally Posted by AusCan
OK - I'll play the game. I don't think they will be overrun with tourists.
Here's one I visited earlier this year. It even has a cave you can pull your boat into.
Get out of there if a southeasterly starts blowing.
35.1669197 South 136.492756 East
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Pretty exotic! See any large sharks in that area?
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08-24-2017, 03:19 PM
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#49
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City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by k9medic
It is also the last time we will go to Key West. The "marina" pool is shared by a restaurant. When we arrived there were two cruise ships in port. Needless to say, my two boys saw more than we ever bargained for when we walked past the pool. Never again.
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I assume your boys are young. I would agree that Key West is not the best place for younger kids. I think some of the spots between Miami and Key West are more family friendly. We love Key West, but we don't have kids with us.
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08-24-2017, 03:23 PM
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City: Palm Coast, FL
Vessel Name: Coquina
Vessel Model: Lagoon 380
Join Date: Jan 2017
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Quote:
Originally Posted by k9medic
my two boys saw more than we ever bargained for when we walked past the pool. Never again.
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Sounds like Key West alright. Gotta keep the kids in the museums, the southermost point, or in restraurants. Daytime only. And, you missed the festivals. 
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08-24-2017, 05:23 PM
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#51
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City: Adelaide
Vessel Name: Kokanee
Vessel Model: Cuddles 30 Pilot House Motor Sailer
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 3,215
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Originally Posted by diver dave
Pretty exotic! See any large sharks in that area?
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We didn't see any there, but I'm sure there is. There are shark viewing cages at nearby South Neptune Island.
The coordinates I listed were for a spot at Wedge Island. It is a magical anchorage in the right conditions. 150 foot cliffs wrap 270 degrees around the small bay. It would only be big enough for only one or two boats. There is a cave at the water line big enough to take a decent sized boat in, although I decided my mast was a bit too close to the rock ceiling.
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08-24-2017, 05:33 PM
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#52
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Senior Member
City: Florida
Vessel Model: 420AC Sea Ray
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 354
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Originally Posted by diver dave
Sounds like Key West alright. Gotta keep the kids in the museums, the southermost point, or in restraurants. Daytime only. And, you missed the festivals. |
The worst part was the pool is only open from 11am-5pm so it WAS daytime!
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08-24-2017, 07:21 PM
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#53
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City: North Charleston, SC
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 4,774
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BruceK
The devil in me says find a great spot, mess up the odor emissions from your holding tank, voila!, paradise is yours alone. Though,on reflection, you might need a nose-peg yourself...
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One thing that usually keeps people from anchoring too close is wearing a Speedo on the bow or flybridge.
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08-24-2017, 07:45 PM
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#54
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City: Quebec
Vessel Name: Bleuvet
Vessel Model: Custom Built
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 4,277
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Originally Posted by WesK
One thing that usually keeps people from anchoring too close is wearing a Speedo on the bow or flybridge.
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Or, like I already saw, watch a neighbor go on his swim platform to pee while you are having a drink 
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08-27-2017, 05:39 PM
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#55
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City: Lions Bay, BC
Vessel Name: Phoenix Hunter
Vessel Model: Kadey Krogen 42 (1985)
Join Date: Apr 2011
Posts: 2,775
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In Gwaii Haanas we shared anchorages on only 4 nights in 3 weeks this past June-July.
Jim
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08-27-2017, 05:44 PM
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#56
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City: Quebec
Vessel Name: Bleuvet
Vessel Model: Custom Built
Join Date: Jan 2016
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Do you mean an anchorage like this one?
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08-27-2017, 06:21 PM
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#57
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City: Queensland
Vessel Model: Milkraft 60 converted timber prawn trawler
Join Date: Jul 2016
Posts: 5,122
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Easy to find here.
99.9% of people have to be at work Monday.
All boats left here Sunday afternoon.
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08-27-2017, 07:10 PM
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#58
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City: Jacksonville
Vessel Name: SONAS
Vessel Model: Grand Alaskan 53
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 7,235
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Yep, that's what we find nowadays.
Though frankly, even now on Saturday evenings when all the day boats have gone home we are often the only boat in the anchorage.
This is my current desktop image - Fort George River on a summer Saturday evening.
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