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Guru
City: San Diego
Vessel Name: Circuit Breaker
Vessel Model: 2021..22' Duffy Cuddy cabin
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 6,691
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Originally Posted by Moonfish
....and there is a seaplane dock here in the marina that Kenmore frequents along with private planes...
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Great! Kenmore is right across the lake from Kirkland where I visit my daughter.
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Done with diesel power boats! Have fallen in love with all electric!
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03-10-2013, 12:20 AM
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#82
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TF Site Team
City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
Vessel Name: Now boatless - sold 6/2018
Vessel Model: Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,637
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I was down at the boat checking and securing, just in case Cyclone Sandra decides to do a loop and come back towards us, so while there took these pics of my marina, or home port, if you like. Horizon Shores Marina, Woongoolba, near the Gold Coast, and 20 mins south of where I live.
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03-10-2013, 12:27 AM
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#83
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TF Site Team
City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
Vessel Name: Now boatless - sold 6/2018
Vessel Model: Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,637
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Ok, my pics are too big for more than one at a time it appears. The above is the first part one enters, called Northhaven, taken from the restaurant looking back across to the main maintenance sheds. Below is where my boat is called Westhaven, looking past my finger back towards the travel lift and the dry stack sheds, the nearest one still being repaired after the massive fire we had there recently.
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03-10-2013, 10:18 AM
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#84
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Moderator Emeritus
City: Home Port: Buck's Harbor, Maine
Vessel Name: "Emily Anne"
Vessel Model: 2001 Island Gypsy 32 Europa (Hull #146)
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 2,846
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Buck's Harbor, Penobscot Bay, Maine. A gorgeous and interesting place to boat (for 5 months a year at least). No marina. Just swing to the wind on a mooring, which is the way we like it. The area of the Maine coast, including adjoining bays and their multitude of islands, is a cruising mecca for boats of all stripes and sizes.
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David Hawkins
Deer Isle, Maine
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03-10-2013, 10:44 AM
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#85
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Guru
City: Concrete Washington State
Vessel Name: Willy
Vessel Model: Willard Nomad 30'
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 18,447
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Marin wrote;
"The weather in SE Alaska is more or less what it is in Washington and BC albeit a little colder and even wetter. So it's pretty easy to keep a boat in the water year round there."
Re the difference in SE AK weather and W WA weather measured in degrees is rather small but the effects are large. The difference in water at 31 deg and 33 degrees is WAY different. Howling winds of over 40 knots are common in SE but very uncommon in WA. There's lots and lots of time when it isn't raining in both places but the ice and snow and wind make the very considerable difference. What Marin said is exactly what I told my wife Christine just before we moved north and I was tell'in myself the same thing. I'd obviously forgotten some of my previous years in SE.
Here's a nice winter day in Thorne Bay SE AK.
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Eric
North Western Washington State USA
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03-10-2013, 01:35 PM
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Guru
City: SF Bay Area
Vessel Model: Tollycraft 34' Tri Cabin
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 11,934
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dwhatty
Buck's Harbor, Penobscot Bay, Maine. A gorgeous and interesting place to boat (for 5 months a year at least). No marina. Just swing to the wind on a mooring, which is the way we like it. The area of the Maine coast, including adjoining bays and their multitude of islands, is a cruising mecca for boats of all stripes and sizes.
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dw - You're cruising over the ashes of both my mom and dad. When a dolphin waves - wave back... that's my mom, she's cool!  
Dad's now a dolphin too, but too grumpy to wave!!  
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03-10-2013, 04:12 PM
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Scraping Paint
City: -
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 13,745
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Quote:
Originally Posted by manyboats
Howling winds of over 40 knots are common in SE but very uncommon in WA.
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Keep a boat in Bellingham and you soon learn that 40 knot frontal winds in the winter are more the norm than the exception. Don't know what it's like farther south in the Sound since our boat refuses to go there. 
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03-10-2013, 05:33 PM
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#88
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Moderator Emeritus
City: Home Port: Buck's Harbor, Maine
Vessel Name: "Emily Anne"
Vessel Model: 2001 Island Gypsy 32 Europa (Hull #146)
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 2,846
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Art
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Will do.
At least with the porpoises (dolphins not local).
My ashes, soaked in a fine Bourbon, will someday join them should my directives as to my final disposal be observed.
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David Hawkins
Deer Isle, Maine
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03-10-2013, 05:51 PM
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Guru
City: Hailing Port: Charleston, SC
Vessel Name: Moonstruck
Vessel Model: Sabre 42 Hardtop Express
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 8,276
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dwhatty
My ashes, soaked in a fine Bourbon, will someday join them should my directives as to my final disposal be observed.
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 Such a shame when good Tennessee sour mash whiskey would do a better job. You may even want to do a little presoak  .
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03-10-2013, 06:32 PM
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Senior Member
City: Merritt Island,Fl
Vessel Name: Sue Marie
Vessel Model: Prarie 29
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 259
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We are in Merritt Island Fl. This is the east coast,near KSC and Port Canmaveral. Great spot, easy access to ICW, the Banana River, and the Ocean. Good cruseing to the North up to St. Augistine and to the South all the way to key West. We keep our boat in a great marnia called harbortown of merritt Island. Full service facility,great boaters, great service,pool and resruant on the grounds. The marinia is off the Barge Canal, providing great protection in the form of a hurricane hole.
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03-10-2013, 07:23 PM
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#91
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Moderator Emeritus
City: Home Port: Buck's Harbor, Maine
Vessel Name: "Emily Anne"
Vessel Model: 2001 Island Gypsy 32 Europa (Hull #146)
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 2,846
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Moonstruck
You may even want to do a little presoak |
In progess.
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David Hawkins
Deer Isle, Maine
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03-10-2013, 07:43 PM
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#92
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Guru
City: Concrete Washington State
Vessel Name: Willy
Vessel Model: Willard Nomad 30'
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 18,447
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Sortie,
Very nice boat and what a nice size.
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Eric
North Western Washington State USA
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03-10-2013, 08:00 PM
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Senior Member
City: Merritt Island,Fl
Vessel Name: Sue Marie
Vessel Model: Prarie 29
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 259
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Eric, Thanks. She is a perfect size. Comfortable and economical, she fits our needs perfectly.
John
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03-10-2013, 09:51 PM
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Guru
City: Hailing Port: Charleston, SC
Vessel Name: Moonstruck
Vessel Model: Sabre 42 Hardtop Express
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 8,276
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sortie
Eric, Thanks. She is a perfect size. Comfortable and economical, she fits our needs perfectly.
John
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Hey, John. Glad to see your boat. Bring it down to Ft. Pierce sometime.
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03-11-2013, 01:03 AM
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Guru
City: SF Bay Area
Vessel Model: Tollycraft 34' Tri Cabin
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 11,934
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dwhatty
Will do.
At least with the porpoises (dolphins not local).
My ashes, soaked in a fine Bourbon, will someday join them should my directives as to my final disposal be observed.
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David - Realized my Porpoise/Dolphin error while driving to grandson's BB championship game today. Figured you'd mention! 
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03-11-2013, 10:50 AM
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#96
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Member
City: Southampton
Vessel Name: Sharp Practice
Vessel Model: Sea Ranger 53
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 20
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Ocean village southampton UK
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03-11-2013, 11:05 AM
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#97
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Guru
City: Concrete Washington State
Vessel Name: Willy
Vessel Model: Willard Nomad 30'
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 18,447
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Sharppractice,
You've got a beautiful boat ... a real gem.
I also like the Lady Hamilton (except that blue deck).
Be sure to share w us some British yachting/boating lore and general boating stuff that's unique to Britain .... especially photo's.
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Eric
North Western Washington State USA
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03-11-2013, 12:32 PM
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Member
City: Southampton
Vessel Name: Sharp Practice
Vessel Model: Sea Ranger 53
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 20
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Manyboats,
thanks.. We are lucky Ocean village is at the head of the solent so the Hamble river , Beaulieu , Cowes etc are very close. We are going to move to Shamrock Quay .Just a bit up the river (named after the sailing "J" Boat Shamrock made there.) for the summer as all a bit more relaxed . Shamrock marina is the UK head office for Fleming yachts so we have good company and much "boatporn" as my missis calls it moored there.
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03-11-2013, 12:42 PM
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#99
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Senior Member
City: St. Catharines
Vessel Name: Delia Rosa
Vessel Model: C & L Sea Ranger 47 Raised Pilothouse
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 375
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Our 'official' port is Kingston, Ontario, Canada but we keep "Delia Rosa" at Lake Breeze Marina at Point Breeze in New York State. It is a great spot as we are just at the mouth of the Oak Orchard River which provides several miles of winding water to kayak in and we are only a couple of minutes away from cruising on Lake Ontario.
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Susan and Dan
"Delia Rosa"
Point Breeze, N.Y.
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03-11-2013, 08:35 PM
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#100
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Guru
City: Cary NC
Vessel Name: Skinny Dippin'
Vessel Model: Navigator 42'
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 797
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We just moved to a new (to us) marina in Oriental NC, Pecan Grove. Here are some pictures from our first days!! Oriental is on the ICW right off the Pamlico Sound on the Neuse River. We have many many awesome anchorages and great destinations like Cape Lookout, Ocracoke, Beaufort and Morehead City NC. We'd rather be in the Bahamas for sure, but this doesn't suck too much!
**I uploaded them backwards... Please look from bottom to top  **
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