Tag: Boating

High and Dry

Posted on by Nichole S.

You can keep on pulling on that anchor line, but I’m quite certain the boat isn’t going to budge.

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There are worse places in the world to be stuck than the back side of Wingaersheek….and I’m fairly certain this guy knew that too. He got that sucker WAAAY up there.  Assuming it was on purpose, he gets a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10 How to Make Summer Weekends Last into September.  If it wasn’t on purpose, well, he still gets a 10….but, on a scale of 1 to 10 How Much Do You Agree That Boaters Should Need Licenses to Operate a Vessel.  

It ins’t over yet, Peeps!

Mother Nature Keeps an Eye out over Wingaersheek Beach

Posted on by Nichole S.

Or at least that is what I saw in the clouds Sunday evening while exiting the Annisquam River to head home to Rockport.

Sun sets on Fiesta and Mother Nature looks over those on the sandbar at Wingaersheek Beach
Sun sets on Fiesta and Mother Nature looks over those on the sandbar at Wingaersheek Beach

Rubber Duck Says: Cape Ann Needs Another Boat.

Posted on by paultmorrison

Someone is twisting Rubber Duck’s little rubber wing to post a story about bringing her boat up from Woods Hole to Gloucester.

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Woods Hole Yacht Club. Flares, horn, fire extinguisher, PFDs, VHF radio, Sudafed, check check check.

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Up Buzzard’s Bay to the Cape Cod Canal, Wind 7 knots from the west. Familiar territory.

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Cape Cod Canal Railroad bridge. Still a train a week. Last time through the canal was 1972. Looks bigger. That bridge is way the hell up there.

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Bourne or the Sagamore Bridge, always mix them up. FYI: if you have a head cold and you just took a football sized antihistamine cocktail do not look up at an eighteen wheeler crossing the bridge as your boat squirrels around in the current.

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The wind freshened from the WSW to 25 knots so too wet to take photos of Plymouth, Duxbury, Scituate, Cohasset, the Graves lighthouse. From the Graves, aimed at the Salem powerplant stack then picked up the windmills of Gloucester.

Arrived 11:30 AM, 93 miles, four hour trip. Take home: This is an easy trip if you can pick your day. It’s all about the wind. Having VHF and a paid up SeaTow membership (the triple A of the water) helped too. The boat is faded blue. Rubber Duck is christening it “Blue Duck”.

“Blue Duck request opening Blynman Bridge.” Went out for a spin on Saturday up the Annisquam then over to Rockport and Straitsmouth Island. Flat calm tried out the 225HP Suzuki topped out at 30.9 knots, 35 mph. Dialed back to 22 knots, a nice cruising speed.

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Bill Bobskill and Family’s Maiden Voyage Aboard his ‘72 Refurbished Starcraft

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

 

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