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04-25-2013, 12:13 PM
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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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Quote:
Originally Posted by CPseudonym
Beautiful boat and cruising grounds! Welcome to the forum.
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 & would like to welcome you also!
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Done with diesel power boats! Have fallen in love with all electric!
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04-25-2013, 12:14 PM
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#122
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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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Welcome DODO. I look forward to hearing more from you.
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04-25-2013, 12:38 PM
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#123
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TF Site Team
City: California Delta
Vessel Name: FlyWright
Vessel Model: 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 13,704
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Nice to see brothers from Europe joining in. Welcome, Dodo! Beautiful boat!
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04-25-2013, 12:45 PM
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#124
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TF Site Team
City: California Delta
Vessel Name: FlyWright
Vessel Model: 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 13,704
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Here are a few brief, poor quality, but fun videos we made during some radar checks.
kalan - YouTube
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04-25-2013, 02:59 PM
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#125
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Guru
City: Campbell River
Vessel Name: Blue Sky
Vessel Model: Nordic Tugs 42 Hull #001
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 1,965
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We berth in Campbell River, on the doorstep to beautiful Desolation Sound and beyond. Discovery Harbour Marina is adjacent to a large mall, which is excellent for provisioning your vessel whether resident or transient. Also has a full featured boatyard for those oops moments.
These photos show Pendrell Sound (calm & gorgeous) and Mitlenatch Island (dry grass).
Will post again with more images.
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Berthed in
Campbell River BC
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04-25-2013, 03:28 PM
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#126
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Scraping Paint
City: -
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 13,745
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Quote:
Originally Posted by baldpaul
We hail from Port Moody, BC. Our boat is moored at Reed Point Marina. Port Moody is basically part of the metro Vancouver area.
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baldpaul--
Neat photos, thanks for putting them up.
To me, since moving here (Seattle area) in 1979, Vancouver has been and continues to be my favorite city in North America. Great setting, neat things to do, very classy place. I am well aware of the changes that have been occurring in the last bunch of years, some of which are not popular with long-time residents. But for the visitor, nothing has changed. It continues to be, in my opinion anyway, one of the great cities of the world.
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04-25-2013, 03:51 PM
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#127
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Guru
City: South FL
Vessel Name: Oliver
Vessel Model: Nordhavn 47 Hull# 12
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 3,607
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My homeport is Port Everglades the largest, busiest port in Florida. There's more mega yachts here then bow riders and center console boats lol.
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M/V Oliver
Nordhavn 47 Hull #12
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04-25-2013, 08:04 PM
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#128
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Senior Member
City: Hendersonville, NC
Vessel Name: Hot Shot
Vessel Model: Mainship 390
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 122
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Fort McAllister Marina. Where Sherman ended his "March to the Sea" in the civil war. Cannon balls still lay on the river bottom.
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04-25-2013, 10:39 PM
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#129
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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 Pluto
Fort McAllister Marina. Where Sherman ended his "March to the Sea" in the civil war. Cannon balls still lay on the river bottom.
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The Tennessee boys at Fort McCallister gave a good accounting of themselves. They were over run by Sherman's men, but still took only about half as many casualties as the Yanks.
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04-26-2013, 12:42 AM
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#130
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Guru
City: Adelaide
Vessel Name: Kokanee
Vessel Model: Cuddles 30 Pilot House Motor Sailer
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 3,215
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Good thread. Its nice to cruise the world without leaving home.
My home port is Glenelg, (suburb of Adelaide) South Australia.
Its a small marina in the mouth of the Patawalonga river. We have easy access the St Vincent Gulf via a lock.
The good:
- 15 minutes from home
- low cost berths
- great position with beautiful sandy beach, nice restaurants & pubs within 5 minute walk
- marina residents are issued remote control for 24/7 operation of lock
- excellent fishing in the area
- uncrowded cruising; Sometimes I go all day without seeing another boat
- Year round boating; although the water is sometimes a little rougher in winter
The challenging:
- Minimal access to protected water; the gulf is considered semi-protected (some may argue that usual 3-15ft swell is not semi-protected)
- No commercial sea tow services; although excellent volunteer rescue team
- Venturing outside the gulf requires a good boat and careful planning
- A trip to other large cities is an major expedition (nearest are Melbourne 800 miles east, or Perth 2000 miles west) No ICW here.
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04-26-2013, 12:43 AM
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#131
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Veteran Member
City: Port Moody
Vessel Name: Big Tuna
Vessel Model: Defever 49 RPH
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 61
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Quote:
Originally Posted by manyboats
baldpaul,
GREAT pictures. Makes me miss Alaska.
We were in Van a few days ago. Ate at a Korean restaurant on Denman Pl. Then went across the street to the desert place. Vancouver is such a worldly and wonderful place. I taught school there at John Oliver in the early 70s.
Ran my OB cruiser up Indian Arm then and anchored in beautiful weather. Heard lot and lots of "circling the wagons" Indian noises and many years later found out they were shooting a movie up there.
Moorage rates still very high?
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We pay $7100/yr for an outside side tie berth. This includes 2000kw of electricity. Reed Point has it's pros and cons. It is one of the less expensive marinas in Vancouver proper. There are cheaper ones, but they are mostly up the Fraser River.
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04-26-2013, 03:17 AM
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#132
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Member
City: Vienna
Vessel Name: DODO
Vessel Model: Selene 40
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 19
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Thank you all for the warm welcome!
Karl
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06-26-2013, 08:37 AM
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#133
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Guru
City: Concrete Washington State
Vessel Name: Willy
Vessel Model: Willard Nomad 30'
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 18,603
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Here is my new home port with the rainbow bridge over the channel.
LaConner Washington State.
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North Western Washington State USA
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06-26-2013, 11:34 AM
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#134
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Senior Member
City: Olympia, WA
Vessel Name: Sea Eagle
Vessel Model: Nordhavn 47
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 201
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San Francisco to Tacoma
We just moved our boat and home port from San Francisco to Tacoma, Washington last week. It took us 5.5 days to cover the 850 miles up the coast and it is SO nice to be able to drive to the boat and get some work done rather than dealing with airports, security and flying.
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Yes Please, Grand Banks Eastbay
Sea Eagle, Nordhavn 47 (sold)
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06-26-2013, 12:47 PM
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#135
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Guru
City: Cape Cod, MA
Vessel Name: Island Seeker
Vessel Model: Willard 36 Sedan
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 1,270
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Island Seeker: Labelle, FL= access to both coasts of FL and islands beyond. Reasonable storage, salt of the earth people "Crackers".
Petrel: So.coast Cape Cod, MA = easy access to Nantucket & Vineyard Sounds, Buzzards Bay, Marthas Vineyard, Nantucket, Elizabeth Islands. Warm water great fishing & cruising.
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06-26-2013, 01:05 PM
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#136
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Veteran Member
City: Espoo
Vessel Name: Carpe Diem
Vessel Model: Storebro 34
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 74
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Carpe Diem's homeport is EPS at Espoo, Finland.
The port has quite a lot facilities for sail school and junior training. The club is heavily biased on sailing (majority of the 440 boats are sailboats), but they tolerate us non sailors as well.
We have a club house, maintenance facilities and saunas. The fire department keeps their boats also at our dock so they are close...
The best part is that it takes two minutes for me to get there...
Finally a picture:
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06-26-2013, 01:09 PM
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#137
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Guru
City: SF Bay Area
Vessel Model: Tollycraft 34' Tri Cabin
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 12,341
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tiku
Carpe Diem's homeport is EPS at Espoo, Finland.
The port has quite a lot facilities for sail school and junior training. The club is heavily biased on sailing (majority of the 440 boats are sailboats), but they tolerate us non sailors as well.
We have a club house, maintenance facilities and saunas. The fire department keeps their boats also at our dock so they are close...
The best part is that it takes two minutes for me to get there...
Finally a picture:
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Surrounds look nice!
Get much weather there during boat season? Most boats go on the hard off season?
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06-26-2013, 03:30 PM
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#138
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Veteran Member
City: Espoo
Vessel Name: Carpe Diem
Vessel Model: Storebro 34
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 74
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All boats go on the hard as the docks gets totally frozen. During winter we usually do day trips to nearby island, by foot. The "weather" here is different to that over there since we have shallow waters and the archipelago that shelters us, so its short waves and a shoppy ride.. There are few places where it can get really bad (no sheltering islands) but its usually not that bad.
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06-28-2013, 08:51 PM
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#139
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Senior Member
City: Anchor Pointe, Ohio
Vessel Name: Sea Moose
Vessel Model: 1976 34' D/C Taiwanese Trawler
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 338
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Great thread.
Home port is Anchor Pointe, a boataminium located just east of Toledo, Ohio on the western shore of Lake Erie. Not too many trawlers on Lake Erie - There are two in the entire marina out of 400 slips.
It's a great place to boat, the islands of Put In Bay, Middle Bass, and Kelley's are about 4 hours away at trawler speed, and there is plenty to look at. Lots of wildlife, great fishing, and it has a very small town atmosphere about it.
Have a 45' slip that cost a fraction of what it would cost elsewhere.
Here's the boat in the slip:

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06-28-2013, 09:16 PM
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#140
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Senior Member
City: Fulton TX
Vessel Name: The Salty Swallow - named by wife
Vessel Model: Private builder - 50' Trawler
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 179
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Well, my home port WAS Lakes Entrance in Victoria Australia....look it up, its beautiful. Now however our boat is at Rockport TX and will most likely remain there for the foreseeable future...
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