Ours, too. Marina Jacks is a pretty darn nice Marina. Lots to do within walking distance as well.Wifey B: One of our favorite marinas. Lot's of great restaurants and we have friends there who know them all.
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Click on to www.windfinder.com , scroll to west FL. Zoom in until weather stations start showing up. You have several offshore buoys along your route such as SW Tampa bay buoy, W. FL Central buoy and the Tyndall AFB tower. I find the wind and direction very accurate but the wave height is usually I little short. Good luck!
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Re: post #59. "...we have to be home no later than Saturday." Fair enough BUT your boat doesn't. Schedules have caused more catastrophes than almost anything else. IF you don't get a window you're comfortable with, leave the boat and return at a later date. PLEASE!
Re: post #59. "...we have to be home no later than Saturday." Fair enough BUT your boat doesn't. Schedules have caused more catastrophes than almost anything else. IF you don't get a window you're comfortable with, leave the boat and return at a later date. PLEASE!
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Oh definitely....safety first. David is super cautious by nature...but especially with a new to us boat that we’re not all that familiar with yet. We are certain we can at least get to Orange Beach. We apparently have to send Florida some proof that we’ve taken the boat out of Florida. We had to sign an affidavit saying that we would get it out of the state in so many days to avoid paying Florida sales tax.
Right now we are having dinner and drinks at Doc Ford’s.
OH...and we have a leak!!
It’s the weirdest thing. It’s coming UP from a screw in the window frame. We haven’t yet figured out how the window frame filled up with water. Course nobody (the seller) had any idea of said leak. Also the pilothiuse door has a small leak as well. It just needs to be re-sealed.
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Oh definitely....safety first. David is super cautious by nature...but especially with a new to us boat that we’re not all that familiar with yet. We are certain we can at least get to Orange Beach. We apparently have to send Florida some proof that we’ve taken the boat out of Florida. We had to sign an affidavit saying that we would get it out of the state in so many days to avoid paying Florida sales tax.
Right now we are having dinner and drinks at Doc Ford’s.
OH...and we have a leak!!
It’s the weirdest thing. It’s coming UP from a screw in the window frame. We haven’t yet figured out how the window frame filled up with water. Course nobody (the seller) had any idea of said leak. Also the pilothiuse door has a small leak as well. It just needs to be re-sealed.
Duct tape.
Or you can use a wax toilet bowl seal forced into the suspected area, to fix it until you get home.
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I think you will find that in the long run it is easier and cheaper to just wash dishes rather than use the paper plates. Many places we go in the PNW there is no garbage service, or it is very expensive. I’ll bet there are more big boats around here with trash compacters rather than dishwashers.
Good luck with the weather. Since I really screwed up on weather decisions a few weeks ago, I’d go for the more cautious approach. Even more so in a boat that is new to you.
Speaking of weather, very odd here. Mid 50s and sunny. Girls are running around in tank top and shorts and I’m sitting in the cockpit sipping on a Rum and Coke. Lovely. Of course it will get cold once the sun goes down.
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Keep an eye on the "girls" and you will know when it is "too cold"
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If it’s in the 50’s, I’m wearing a coat. That’s cold to me. Lol
I guess the high today was low 70’s before the rain came in and then dropped to upper 60’s. I was flabbergasted at how many people were swimming in the pool. I’m wearing a sweatshirt and long pants!
I guess I never thought about paying for trash disposal. Interesting.
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Depends on the type of boating you do. If we stay in Puget Sound, most marinas have free garbage with moorage. However, the state parks don’t. Once you get up past Port Townsend, free garbage is harder to come by. Then as you get further North into BC, finding a place to dispose of trash can be really hard. Amazing how much trash you can accumulate over the space of a week or two.
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You mentioned you are storing the trash in one of the staterooms.
I would discourage you from doing that. Get a trash can, put it in the cockpit.
Store it inside and you might develop a family of bugs.
I would discourage you from doing that. Get a trash can, put it in the cockpit.
Store it inside and you might develop a family of bugs.
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Oh I know. When we anchored out for just 4 nights for the wooden boat fest, we just piled our trash up on the bow. We probably had 5 or 6 bags. It was facing the trees on the shore, so it wasn’t real visible, but we had to travel back to the marina like that.
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Ah okay, that's better. SMILE
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We are right across the ICW from you at Bird Key YC waiting on weather to go to St. Pete and Clearwater.
Be very careful with the crossing to the Panhandle. It is always rough about halfway across.
Take a deep breath and wait for it to be a good trip.
Be very careful with the crossing to the Panhandle. It is always rough about halfway across.
Take a deep breath and wait for it to be a good trip.
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There is an app names Buoyweather for the iPhone. Might want to look into it. I have not used it recently so I dont know if use an auto locator on the boat. It use to require you to know the buoy number. As I recall, it gives wave height and temp. Also the app that utilizes the data from National Data Buoy Center. I think it is titled BuoyData. There are more and some have a RADAR loop. Check out MyRadar Pro and of course TideApp.
Sometimes one needs to use a couple apps to draw the necessary conclusion when it comes to the weather.
There is also a recording barometer app you might consider. I guess it is called Barometer. The disadvantage, it doesnt have an auto update feature. You must update it at least once a day to establish the trend.
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When you get home try Hamilition Marine (no affiliation) for traveling dock lines. Their Yale 8 plait, either 1/2” or 5/8”. The 600’ reel is about 1/2 theprice of West by the foot. Get the $20 rope cutter too. Has turned out to be handy.
Soft, no memory but a real hard core bitch to splice to the point I just whipped with heat shrink and melt and use bowlines for loops. Really Kindda better cause loop size is adjustable for each docking situtation.
Soft, no memory but a real hard core bitch to splice to the point I just whipped with heat shrink and melt and use bowlines for loops. Really Kindda better cause loop size is adjustable for each docking situtation.
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Folks, remember if you need a 75 ft line, add in enough for the loop or you will be 5 or 6 ft too short.
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We’ll head to Clearwater on Monday and figure out when we can cross. All these different weather and wave forecast sites say something different. How do you know which is accurate?
Yes it does!! Hey Crusty do you think they should check Environment Canada?? I bet they do forecasts for southern Florida....LOL Remember its all in meters....
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OK guys. 3 pages and only one picture??? Come on we want to see more....please
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Looks like you will be stuck in Clearwater for a good part of the week. Cold front coming through now up in the panhandle. When we make that crossing I check the weather constantly because any forecast beyond a couple of days often changes.
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Lol there’s plenty more. But I have to go through each one and rotate them so they won’t post sideways.
We made it to marina jacks. Fun day.
Now going in search of a hose so we can give her a bath.
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Sounds like they are having a great trip so far. Hopefully weather won’t cross them up. Nothing wrong with leaving the boat if you don’t have the weather window and coming back to move it the rest of the way home.
I don’t know how to interpret forecasts. I’m usually wrong.
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