tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59698034102498547882024-03-13T14:01:45.064-05:00The Why Knot Great Lakes Grand TourIn the Great Lakes for FIVE YEARS!Darrell "Skipper Darrell" Grobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10068244497704480709noreply@blogger.comBlogger233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969803410249854788.post-24427636830816620432019-05-27T03:13:00.000-05:002019-05-27T07:44:03.940-05:00WE MADE IT TO NEW YORK. NOW WHAT? PART 2<br />
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we made it to New York. Several complications have cropped up that we
have to work around. Fortunately, these complications are not deal
breakers. But they are a pain in the neck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">As I
write this blog entry, we're tucked in nice and warm at a lovely
hotel in Lake George, NY. And if you've been following these
semi-rants, the reason we're here and not on the boat back in
Brewerton is because the Erie Canal and Oswego Canal are not open.
This is due to unusually high waters from snow runoff and extra heavy
amounts of rain over the last couple of months. This problem isn't
just in New York State either. It's also plaguing Lake Ontario and
Lake Erie. So much so that there are marina restrictions, coastal
flooding, and navigation warnings about violent currents. Not a
pretty picture.</span></div>
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me catch you up on some of the details.</span></div>
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arrived at Rochester, NY on Tuesday, 5/21/2019. The details of that
are covered in the previous blog entry.</span></div>
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Wednesday morning, 5/22/2019, we motored on to Buffalo, NY, to be
interviewed for our Nexus border control cards. The purpose of this
card is to streamline our entries and exits between the U.S. and
Canada. We figured it would be helpful over the next five years as we
explore as much of the Great Lakes as we can on both sides of the
border. That is still to be proved, but the application process was
more involved. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">In
addition to providing all the necessary information for both
country's powers that be to decide that we're good 'ol fashion
patriotic 'Muricans and friends to all Canadians (Let's Go Blues,
eh!), we had to be interviewed in person by border control agents from
both countries. The only place to do that that was anywhere
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arrived at our appointed times at the modest Nexus office in Niagara
Falls, NY. The uniformed staff from both countries cheerfully and
efficiently took our pictures and fingerprints. Then, both Lisa and I
together were "interviewed" by agents from both countries.
Each agent gave us photocopies about how the Nexus program worked in
their countries and ... that was it. No grilling. No third degree. No
white-hot light shining in our faces. No billy clubs smacked across
our heads. All the background checks were done in, well, the
background before we arrived. We were in and out in fifteen minutes.
No pain, no strain.</span></div>
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then drove from Buffalo all the way to Winter Harbor Marina in
Brewerton where we discovered our starting off our 2019 edition of the
Why Knot Great Lakes Grand Tour was complicated.</span></div>
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I think it is very appropriate for me to say that the folks at Winter
Harbor have been as polite, efficient, accommodating and professional
as anyone in the marine business we've come across. Let there be no
doubt about that. But they and we are in a tight spot.</span></div>
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aforementioned weather and water conditions are to blame. The Erie
Canal locks are being opened in odd sequences while the Oswego Canal
is still closed. That means there will now be a rush of boats from as
far back as Waterford, NY, at lock #2 into the Erie Canal all
heading west. And, lets' face it, the vast number of the boats all
want to head up the Oswego to Lake Ontario, not further west to
Buffalo. And, like I said, the Oswego is still closed. That means
they are all going to go where? Winter Harbor, or at least Sylvan
Beach if they're smart.</span></div>
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we're going to not be in a super hurry to get out of Winter Harbor.
We simply can't.</span></div>
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they still have to do a bottom job on the boat.</span></div>
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here we are in Lake George where we're looking forward to a relaxing
weekend amongst the Adirondacks, making lemonade out of lemons, and
Tom Collins out of the lemonade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Oh,
and they have boat rentals!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have a tradition of playing Bob Seger's great rocker, Get Out Of Denver, whenever we're getting ready to leave Denver to head to the boat at the beginning of every boating season. The idea is that the hectic nature of the song matches our anticipation of being out of the mountains and high desert plains of Colorado and getting back to sea level and on our boat, Why Knot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Usually, we do pretty well traveling. We very rarely have to scramble, and our penchant for planning and Lisa's wizardry at booking flights and hotels usually makes for a hassle-free experience. B</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ut the omens that presented themselves to us while getting out of Denver this time were not good ones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First was getting to the airport. We always use Super Shuttle and have found them to be reliable and cost-effective. Denver International Airport is an hour's drive from our house, but its automatic scheduling function always allowed for plenty of time to make the trip. This time they did send us a rescheduling notice that they were going to pick us up twenty minutes earlier than originally scheduled: 4:20am instead of 4:40am. No big deal. But the reason they did that was that they added three hotel pickups downtown. That did not go as they anticipated. Everyone was in position and ready, that wasn't the problem, but the schedule was too tight to get all of us to the airport in a timely fashion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You know how it is said to get to an airport two hours before your flight? How about one hour and fifteen minutes? (All of us passengers had departure times at 7:00am, and we arrived at DIA at 5:45am.) And that was before standing in as long a security checkpoint line as I've ever seen in Denver. And why? They added a new row of guide ropes that channeled every single flyer to be sniffed by a bomb dog. Great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lisa was unusually nervous about the whole thing. (The tight schedule, not the bomb-sniffing dog.) She's cool as a cucumber under pressure, but this whole thing threw her demeanor to crap. I have to admit I was perturbed too – angry actually – and my mind went into crisis management mode. I called Super-Shuttle while we stood in the checkpoint line and read them the riot act, which did nothing except make me feel like I was in control of something. But fear not, we got through the checkpoint and made it to the concourse trains. No problem there, except that damn prerecorded Colorado cowboy was incredibly chirpy for that time of the morning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of course, our flight was on Southwest Airlines whose gates are on C concourse, the furthest away from the terminal, and particularly at gate C-46, one gate shy of being the furthest away from, well, everything. But we hustled like crazy and got to the gate where we discovered ... there wasn't an airplane for us to be late for. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our original flight plan wasn't terrible except for the early flight time out of Denver. We were going to Baltimore first for a three-hour layover. That was okay with us. BWI actually is a very friendly airport with lots of places to eat, and we figured we'd get a nice lunch and wait for our puddle-jumper flight from Baltimore to Rochester, NY. No big deal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But our flight out of Denver was delayed 2½ hours. We were afraid that would cascade to make us miss our flight out of Baltimore. And it almost did. That is except after we scrambled to get from our arrival gate to our departure gate in Baltimore ... there wasn't a plane for the flight to Rochester either. We were forty-five minutes delayed getting out of Baltimore. By the time we arrived at Rochester, got out luggage, got our rental car, and checked into our room at the hotel, it was 7:00. Accounting for time zone changes, we were on the road, er, air, thirteen hours, and it seemed we spent all of it scrambling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But, as I'll tell you in the next post, WE MADE IT TO NEW YORK. NOW WHAT? PART 2, that all now seems like mere inconveniences.</span>Darrell "Skipper Darrell" Grobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10068244497704480709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969803410249854788.post-79450378433981702372019-04-01T05:10:00.000-05:002019-04-01T05:14:53.896-05:00Sounds like a Plan to Me (at Least to Montreal)<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: 0.3in;">If you've watched any of my videos or read my blog posts, you'd know I go into levels of planning minutiae that I get kidded about frequently. There </span>have<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"> also been some very mean-spirited criticism. It's usually along the lines that I'm somehow betraying the spirit of what recreational boating is all about. “It's about freedom and not having to follow rules,” I've been told. Well, if boating is about freedom, then I'm free to plan my little heart out. Besides, my planning has helped us see amazing things and enjoy our lifestyle in immeasurable ways, all with the aforementioned economy, efficiency </span>and<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"> productivity.</span></span><br />
<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: 0.3in;">But for this 2019 cruising season in the Thousand Islands in Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence Seaway, Montreal, Ottawa </span>and<span style="text-indent: 0.3in;"> the Rideau Canal, even my planning bent is a bit bent over. There's so much to see and do, there are so many options and possibilities, all I've been able to do is plan the major destinations. From almost any point, especially in the Thousand Islands, we could go in any direction and be able to enjoy someplace remarkable.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 0.3in;">July 16 – Now, at this point, our next major stop is Port D'Escale Du Vieux Port De Montreal in Montreal. But it's 64-ish miles from Creg Quay with four locks. That's too much for one day. So, I have to come up with someplace to stop for the night, most likely an anchorage. ANY SUGGESTIONS? That means we'll arrive in Montreal on July </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: 0.3in;">17</span><sup style="text-indent: 0.3in;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span style="text-indent: 0.3in;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, on top of all that, there is also the TOBL/WKGLGT YouTube channel that has dozens of videos about every aspect of our trawler cruising life. You need to subscribe to that. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/c/TheOnBoardLife">http://www.youtube.com/c/TheOnBoardLife</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“But Skipper Darrell,” you ask, “why are you doing all this?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simple. It's because I'm crazy. But Admiral Lisa and I want to share our experiences with everyone. And after several years of emphasizing make videos, I decided I liked writing the blogs more. But there will still be videos, but not as complex as they have been recently. (They're hard work!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;">It should be noted that there are two Capri marinas next door to each other: Capri West and Capri East. This is about Capri West.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif;">N: Navigability</b><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif;"> – Coming from the south, p</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">ast New York City, past the Throgs Neck Bridge into Long Island Sound, it is in Manhasset Bay on Long Island. The channel into the bay is marked. (Keep a sharp lookout for the no-wake zone markers. They're kind of in the middle of things.) There is shoaling coming out from Plum Point. On charts the marina appears to be in shallow water; depths are very adequate. The marina hosts some very large yachts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>S: Services –</b> Capri is a full-service marina. They offer electricity, water, and a complete service department next door at Capri East. They do haul-outs and on-the-hard storage during the off-season. The Port Washington pump-out boat is available to come right to you and your boat. There is a large mooring field in the bay. I used Dockwa to book our stay. Make sure you follow up with a phone call to confirm any changes you may make to your itinerary. They offer diesel and gasoline fuel. Note: the dockhands all hang out at the office up on shore, not at the shack on the fuel dock. When you radio them for assistance when you arrive, they drive a golf cart down to the fuel or transient dock to assist you. Be patient. It takes a couple of minutes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>A: Amenities –</b> As I've said in the past, there are two features that a marina must provide to make a marina eligible to be a 5-star marina in my opinion: a swimming pool and pump out at the slip. Check and check. Overall, the facility is clean and well maintained. It's got a classy, yet not ostentatious vibe. There's a little bistro dockside on the shore with some better than average bar food. (It's a little pricey, but not terrible.) It's comfy. Now, that being said, I've been on a season-long rage about bathrooms that are not very good, particularly about cleanliness (especially showers) and roominess. (Many of us older gents are bigger than when we were younger.) Capri falls a tad short here. The bathrooms are big enough, and they are clean. (Tip for management. Have someone go through them with a mop a couple of times a day. Swimmers track in a lot of water onto the floor of the toilet stalls.) Their problem is that they are not air-conditioned, and when we were there it was, at times, hotter than hell. It doesn't do much good to take a shower then be soaked with sweat within minutes. Aside from that, it's a fine place with lots of good points about it. NOTE TO TRANSIENTS – The transient slips are at what is probably the furthest point away from the shore. It's a hike. But during the days the dockhands will be glad to give you a lift in one of the golf carts. They'll even come down to your boat and pick you up if you hail them on the radio.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>A: Accessibility –</b> Our strategy was to use Port Washington as our jumping off point to get to New York City. We wanted to go into full tourist mode and our plans worked to perfection. Well, not perfection; there were a couple of burps, but it worked out just fine. Getting to NYC from Capri West (and Capri East) is not complicated at all. One block down from the marina is a bus stop for the N23 Mineola-Manorhaven route of the Nassau Inter-County Express, or NICE bus service. This stop is called the Orchard Beach Blvd – Park Lane stop. This bus takes you directly to the Long Island Rail Road station in town. Now, THIS IS IMPORTANT – the bus line's schedule is, shall we say, adhered to in a very flexible way. If the schedule tells you that a pickup time is at 8:02 am, be at the stop by 7:30 am. The fare is $2.75 per person per ride. THEY ONLY ACCEPT QUARTERS or one of their pass cards. Once you get to the station all you have to do is buy your ticket for the train (peak and non-peak fares are different), hop on, and get whisked away to Penn Station in Manhattan. Boom! There you are. To get back to the marina just reverse the plan. Now, you can also take the N23 bus to nearby stores such as Target, West Marina and Stop and Shop. Lisa did ride her bike to Target. It was a longish trip but not hard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>P: Price – </b>Their transient rate was $4.00 per foot according to Active Captain, plus electricity. No discounts. We booked our slip through Dockwa dot com. I need to add here that I changed our schedule several times and they were very accommodating to our needs. </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Verdict – </b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A nice marina with lots of good, solid, positive points about it. Access to NYC is spot on. It is expensive, that's true, but it feels as if the money is being put back into it. The hot, wet bathrooms were a downer, though.</span></span></span></span></div>
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We heard all the rumors. We had heard that there were hoards of wild, evil, out of control youths all lined up waiting for some poor, unsuspecting recreational boater to have made a wrong turn at Hell Gate. They stood in battle lines on the overpasses armed with bowling balls, rock, couches, and household appliances waiting to pounce and shower those dead-weight bombs onto the decks below. (Seriously, we heard they heaved couches and appliances.) The Harlem River was their wild frontier, and boaters were trespassers subject to the full gamut of punishment that the inhabitants could muster.</div>
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We also heard that navigating the river itself was “tortuous”. (That's in the Active Captain description.) The Harlem River was a convoluted mess, with a seemingly infinite number of commercial boats that wound up and down and side to side, and that they were a direct threat to the lives of anyone who thought of traversing the river in a recreational vessel. And the river itself, with its bridges and turns, was nothing short of a hellish horror. Oh, and the stench from the pollution and trash would make you ill on the spot.</div>
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The main reason to go up or down the Harlem River would be to avoid the East River and having to go around the southern tip of Manhattan to get to the Hudson River from Long Island Sound. And that's what we did. After three weeks in the sound, it was time for us to get back on our main course and get on up to the Erie Canal to finally reach the end of our 2018 cruising season.</div>
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Now, after our rough and tumble transit of the East River past Roosevelt Island when we came up, I wasn't altogether excited about heading back down it, then contend with all the heavy traffic around The Battery to get northbound on the Hudson. Nope, not at all. Fortunately, boating friends of our in Mystic, CT suggested the shortcut up the Harlem River. We hadn't considered it. But, after checking the charts, and taking all the hysterical tirades into consideration, we decided it was the right choice for us. (By the way, all those negative tirades? Funny that they're all 2<sup>nd</sup> or 3<sup>rd</sup> hand accounts, never first-hand. “I knew a guy who knew a guy who knew a guy who had a half-size replica of the Statue of Liberty dropped on them.”)</div>
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Technically, from R-14 at Hell Gate to just past the Spuyten Dyvil Bridge, it's 8.0 statute miles on the Harlem River. From and to the same points, the route around Manhattan on the East River is 21.5 sm. That's 13.5 sm saved right there. (You can do the math of how much time that would save you based on your speed.) There is a current, but it wasn't terrible at all when we went through. I would suggest hitting it at or near slack current anyway – no need to tempt fate. They do tell you to run at idle speed. We ran it at about 6.5 smph. If you're a sailboater, unless you have dropped your mast, go on down the East River. The swing, lift, and bascule bridges all have big signs on them that say you have to give the powers-that-be four hours notice of needing a bridge opened. In other words, they don't want to open them for nobody. Sorry, sailors. Otherwise, the lowest vertical bridge clearance is 24 feet. I didn't see anything about the water's depth to be alarmed about at all – all double-digit in the teens or deeper.</div>
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The complexion of the river is that it is more industrial at the southern end. No doubt about that. But we were surprised at how clean it was. I swear, there was very little debris on the water. I expected some kind of sludgey, oilish sheen on the surface, but there wasn't. I wouldn't go swimming in it, but it wasn't noxious. It didn't smell. It's not a scenic, beautiful, marine wonderland, but really, it wasn't all that bad. Though I must admit, we had cool weather; I wonder what it would be like on a hot calm day. (For you loopers out there, the Calumet River and Chicago Sanitary Canal are muuuuuch worse. Hell, portions of the St. Johns River in Florida make my eyes water.)</div>
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Maybe we were lucky. Maybe all the work boats were broken. Maybe all the savages were taking a coffee break. Or maybe the hype of how dangerous and “tortuous” the Harlem River is is just that, hype. You have to decide for yourself. As for us, we found it to be fascinating. It was a unique opportunity to see things from a different perspective. Water is everywhere, including the inner cities of America. Taking the Harlem River as a useful shortcut is a way to see that side of it.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Here's another marina report on the Why Knot Great Lakes Grand Tour. Using the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">N D S, A A, P P marina analysis model, I'll fill you in on what my experience was. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The views expressed are strictly my own. </u></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">We very rarely go back to a marina twice in a season. We like to keep pushing forward. But we went back to Norwalk Cove Marina in Norwalk, CT. During our first one-night visit on our way out Long Island Sound we weren't able to really get to know this bustling and interesting marina. And we didn't get to see Norwalk at all. It deserved a second look</span></span></div>
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adventures, we rarely go back to someplace once we've been there
already during the season. This year we've done it twice. (Actually,
three times, but that's another story.) The first time was when we
went back to Summit North Marina in Delaware after we visited
Philadelphia. That was a stop of convenience. The second time was
when we went back to Norwalk, CT. That was because we felt we had
short-changed that destination the first time, and we wanted to check
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First of all, the marina, Norwalk Cove,
is as hospitable a marina for big boats as you can find. There will
be more about that in a future marina report. Let's say for now that
if you have a boat that's a bit bigger than most, you'll love Norwalk
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The town itself is fine. The SONO area
(South Norwalk, the part of town closest to the marina) is made up
mostly of restaurants and bars, not shops. It's not a quaint New
England town but a vibrant city. It's “millennial” in its vibe
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We both said that if we were thirty
years old again, Norwalk would certainly be worth a look as someplace
to live. And maybe that's how to describe Norwalk: it's a nice place
to live, but not a tourist destination. But you should certainly make
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There is one feature of the marina that
deserves special mention: they have a miniature putting course, and
it is AWESOME.<br />
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My original plans were for us to cruise out Long Island Sound along the north shore out to Mystic, CT, then across the sound to Greenport, LI NY. From there we were going to go back to the north shore and head west. I'm not sure why I changed my mind about that, but I decided it would be better to try a different tack. I think it had something to do with me being suspicious about anchoring opportunities on the way back west.<br />
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We still went out the sound on the north side from Manhasset Bay, NY to Norwalk, CT to the Thimble Islands, also in CT, then to Mystic. But on the way back west, instead of going to Greenport, we crossed the bay from Mystic to Port Jefferson, LI NY. Our research showed there was a good mooring field with a pump out boat, a vibrant touristy town, and a free launch service, aka a water taxi. I liked how it all sounded.</div>
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As was the case for most of our excursion into Long Island Sound, boating conditions were excellent, if not a little boring. There was very little wind and calm seas prevailed. It was an easy boating day. The only thing that we had to pay special attention to was to keep a sharp lookout for the large ferry boats that steamed from the Port Jefferson inlet across the sound to Connecticut.</div>
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The inlet itself is well protected with a wide, clearly marked channel that heads due south toward the town of Port Jefferson itself. There are mooring fields on both sides of the channel. The main field is on the left (east) side as you approach the docks and town. There is some kind of large rock and gravel operation on the right (west) side that loads and unloads onto and from barges around the clock. The moorings on that side are nearer the entrance of the bay. </div>
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There are a couple of marinas there but, wow, are they expensive. The pump out boat, as we found out, is only available on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. One of the marinas has a pump out, but it wasn't working while we were there. There is also a unique manually operated pump out barge directly to the left as you enter the inlet, but it didn't look large enough to accommodate a boat larger than maybe 35 feet long. It's painted white; you'll spot it easily. It may work great, but we didn't try it.</div>
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Getting to shore via the town's free launch service is convenient and quick. They standby on channel 68 and take you ashore near a boater's building with a security lock that has bathrooms, showers and laundry. This building is pretty much in the heart of the city center. It seems to be an efficient operation.</div>
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Once a shipbuilding town, Port Jefferson is now a full fledged tourist destination with all the trappings. From fudge to ice cream to little trendy restaurants to interesting museums to shops of all kinds, Port Jefferson wants you to spend money there. The most trendy area is on East Main, appropriately named as it is one block east of Main Street. (See the separate marina report for provisioning and accessibility information.) It's a busy and pleasant town. And as we have a preference for mooring fields (and we have a great Phasor generator) it was a terrific stop and one we would make again. </div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Cruising Long Island Sound to Mystic, CT was a great experience. It was well worth the effort and expense. The town was fun, and the sights were interesting, and the marina we stayed at, Safe Harbor Mystic Yacht Yard, was, in my opinion, average. Yep, average.</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif;">S: Services –</b><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Safe Harbor Mystic Yacht Yard</span><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> is a full-service marina. They offer electricity, water, and a complete service department. They do haul-outs and on-the-hard storage during the off-season. Their fuel dock is large enough and sticks out in the channel very conveniently – easy to get fuel or a pump-out. There is a pump-out boat that services the entire Mystic seaport area. (Lots and lots of mooring balls with mostly sailboats attached.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>P: Price – </b>Their published transient rate on Active Captain is $3.50 per foot plus electricity. No discounts. We booked our slip through Dockwa dot com. </span></span>
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So, we made it through the New Jersey ICW without too much ballyhoo. It was shallow but not too terrible. That got us only to Manasquan. To get to New York City and beyond we had to head out onto the ocean and motor up the coast a couple of dozen miles or so around Sandy Hook and up the Lower New York Bay.</div>
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It was a Sunday morning, and there were only a few freighters transiting the Lower Bay. The overall traffic was lighter than it would have been on a weekday, and all we had to contend with in the Narrows were a couple of sailboats and water taxis.</div>
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The last time we went through this body of water was in 2012. It was a Saturday morning and we were heading up to the Hudson River, so we had to go up the gut of the harbor. We got rocked pretty hard, but that was not entirely unexpected. We had warnings about the traffic-made heavy chop. This time, since we were heading out into Long Island Sound, we had to head up the East River. My strategy was to motor up Buttermilk Channel past Governor's Island to avoid the densest part of the harbor. We would then go up under the Brooklynn Bridge, up the river past Hell Gate and out into the sound. It sounded simple enough to me.</div>
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It was choppy but not too rough. We bounced around some, but it was not uncomfortable. That was until we reached Roosevelt Island. We took the recommended northern/western branch of the East River past the United Nations. That was where all hell broke loose.</div>
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I have to admit, I played it wrong. I completely underestimated the ferocity of that stretch of water. It was as rough conditions in a short length of water we had ever experienced. We were thrown in every direction possible. It was a big-time mess. However, we still had steerage and some power in reserve. Besides, it was a short distance; I knew I could manage it.</div>
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Like some great cosmic convergence, from the north there were four sailboats heading south spread out across the river and a poor runabout getting thrashed. And on the foredeck of the runabout were two young ladies in bikinis screaming at the top of their lungs while they clutched at the rails. I briefly caught a vision of them bouncing on the deck. From the south, the same direction as us, were two more sailboats, a high-speed water taxi and a freighter. We all met at the same place on the river at the same time. Then, to top all that off, two goddamn sport fishers plowed through on-plane heading north right through all of it. (“Gee, Skipper Darrell; don't you have any video or pics of that?” NO. Lisa was holding on and I was driving the boat. We were kinda busy.)</div>
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In a quick video I published on Facebook (and in the linked picture album) I said the experience was “Brutal. Just brutal.” I caught some flak from one guy on Facebook that said I shouldn't have been so alarmist about the experience. I stand with my description: It was brutal.</div>
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Here's my understanding of what happened, and I'm sure some of you readers will correct me and/or embellish this. The first condition had to do with the constricted nature of the channel itself, and I have a small-scale analog from back in New Jersey.</div>
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When were were back in Manasquan, we anchored in a very nice cove on the Metedaconk River, actually located in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. From there you have to transit the 1.9 mile long Point Pleasant Canal to get to the Manasquan River Inlet and the ocean. It just so happened that we had to transit the canal three times in a fourteen hour period, each time with slightly different conditions. The two times we transited the canal in the late afternoon there had been and continued to be a great deal of traffic in the canal. The combined wakes of the boats bounced off the seawalls of the canals and built up to a rough, random, multi-directional chop. I believe that was part of what we experienced next to Roosevelt Island.</div>
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The other aspect of the East River that I, and I say this with humility, completely didn't have a good grip on, was the nature of the river itself. It is not a river; it's a tidal straight connecting two tidal bodies of water. The tides and currents from the north and the south conflict, and with Hell Gate at the head with the Harlem River (another tidal straight), it's ripe for trouble. If it were a devious trap, we walked right into it. It was tough slogging.</div>
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Hell Gate wasn't as big a deal as I thought it would be. Sure, we got twisted a little bit, but Why Knot's bow generally pointed in the right direction. And on through the river we cruised until we made that big left turn after passing under the Throgs Neck Bridge. That as when we could officially say we had made it to Long Island Sound.</div>
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The New Jersey Intracoastal Waterway (#NJICW) is sitting there waiting to be used. If you were planning on the two-stop approach to going out (Atlantic City and Manesquan) there's no change. It's the same. The lengths are different, but the outcomes are the same. The biggest advantage to the NJICW is that it is inside, not subject to the harsh winds and wave conditions that hold you up wherever you are.</div>
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The #NJICW has a reputation of being some kind of pit of hell. It's said that it is the undoing of any brave skipper and crew who would undertake it. It's shallow. It's tricky. It's nowhere for a moderate captain to take a vessel. And to a point it's true, but only to a point. On our trip north during our 2018 cruising season, we decided we would find out for ourselves if the NJICW's reputation is well-earned or just a bunch of negative hype. The short answer to that question is, “It depends.”</div>
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What kind of answer is that? An accurate one. Navigating the NJICW depends on conditions, where you are on the route, what kind of boat do you have, what your draft is, and most important, what are the tides and winds like at any particular place.</div>
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That leaves powerboats. Let's be blunt, there are some very shallow places on the NJICW. My opinion, and this is only my opinion, is that the deepest draft that can safely pass the route is four feet. Maybe four and a half if you're very clever. Speed is also important. If you have a need for speed and your boat digs a nice deep hole for itself abaft when you gun it and get up on plane, you will hit mud in some places. Smaller LOA boats are also better because there are some very tight turns in places. Our boat, Why Knot, is a 45' trawler with a 3 foot draft. We never hit bottom on the NJICW, though we came close once.</div>
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The other fact to know about the NJICW that is interesting is that the markers are numbered all the way starting with Marker 1 at Manesquan to 479 at Cape May. I actually liked that more than markers elsewhere stopping and starting at landmarks, boundaries, or wherever the Coast Guard and the Army Corp of Engineers decided.</div>
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The last basic fact about the NJICW is that there are drawbridges just like you'd find elsewhere up and down the coast. While there are a few with low, low clearances, most of them are at least 22 feet tall. (Gauges measure at low steel.)</div>
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Heading north, the point of no return, so to speak, is at the George Redding Bridge. The bridge tender also responds to it being called The Wildwood Bridge or The Route 47 Bridge. It's 3.6 miles north of the Cape May basin and is the last stretch of the NJICW that is unfettered and easily accessible. After you cross under that bridge you will need to have your plan in place. You need to have your tides lined up right, and you need to know where the possible trouble spots are.</div>
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The first thing you notice about the NJICW is that if you like to drive your boat, this is nirvana for you. If you like to enable the auto-pilot, sit back and watch the State of New Jersey roll by, you will be unhappy and perturbed to no end. You need to have your hands on the wheel and your eyes out in front of you. You also need a good chartplotter with updated charts. I use Navionics Sonar Charts, and because they harvest recent crowd-sourced sonar data, their depth contours are probably more updated than most. They weren't perfect either, but they were more accurate and detailed than what NOAA charts have to say, in my opinion.</div>
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Here's our cruising strategy for the NJICW. You're most likely going to cruise it in two day-long halves. The South Half: Cape May to Atlantic City (50.6 miles), and The North Half: Atlantic City to Manesquan (65.0 miles). Take each of those days and divide them fairly evenly in thirds. Navigating the southern 2/3s of each half requires that you pay close, close attention to tides, currents, and wind. Tidal depths on the NJICW are as dependent on wind as lunar influences. When we cruised the routes, we concluded that the upper third of each half is a bit more generous with depths and have more wide-open cruising areas. We also had very little wind.<br />
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It was also fortunate happenstance that the tides were in our favor both days. We had flooding tides during the early morning hours while we cruised through the southern 2/3s of each route where we needed the extra water. When we reached the northern third of each route, having a high tide was not as necessary. Saying all that, it doesn't mean we didn't have any challenges. We did.</div>
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North of the Rio Grand Bridge – Do not go to G-463. The marker itself is shoaled in a ways out.</div>
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Ludlum Bay – south end, between R-348 and G-349 and R-350, is very shallow, 4' to 6' one hour after high tide. It gets shallower as tide drops. The north end of the bay is deeper: 12' to 19' near high tide.</div>
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Markers 314 to 297 – Water level after high tide was 4' to 5.5' at R-314 to R-310 1.5 hours after high tide. Our sonar showed 1' under our keel. It's just plain shallow at G-297. Watch it.</div>
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So, now I've scared you into thinking that you would never, ever travel on the NJICW. Don't be so judgmental about it. There are lots of good reasons to travel it. It's meandering route reminds you a lot of cruising on the AICW in Georgia and the Carolinas. There are basic marina services available. If you're into gambling, you're going to spend the night in Atlantic City. There are some very beautiful bodies of water, like Barnegat Bay. But perhaps it's most redeeming quality is that you CAN keep on the move if you so desire rather than languishing at either of its ends waiting for perfect ocean conditions.</div>
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Now, there is one question that we have been asked that I want to touch on. We have been asked if cruising the NJICW is like cruising the AICW. Yes and no. It is an ICW, with the gold reflective shapes on the markers, and you keep the red markers on the right as you head south. And it is a channel like the AICW. It would be easy to let your mind slip into thinking they are the same. They are not. Your captain's mindset needs to be different. You have to pay a lot closer attention to what you're doing on the NJICW.</div>
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The best way that I can describe it is that motoring on the NJICW is not for the faint of heart nor deep of draft. But it's doable if you have the right boat and play it right. We educated ourselves about it. We sought out the advice of a very seasoned local captain who gave us invaluable information. And when we set out up the NJICW, we took our time; we didn't press it so hard that we were forced into making poor choices.</div>
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I'm very glad we chose to climb New Jersey on their Intracoastal Waterway. It was a great boating and skippering experience. And as Lisa and I like to rack up bragging rights when we cruise, this fills the bill very nicely.</div>
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Darrell "Skipper Darrell" Grobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10068244497704480709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969803410249854788.post-67226483660746771922018-07-26T06:10:00.000-05:002018-09-01T03:11:04.819-05:00Marina Review – Schooner Island Marina – Wildwood, NJ (Cape May)<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Sometimes you're good. Sometimes you're lucky. Sometimes you're good and lucky. That's how we felt about finding and staying at Schooner Island Marina in New Jersey during the Nor'easter that socked the Eastern Seaboard during late July of 2018. For all of us coastal cruisers that zip through Cape May without giving it much thought, or who stay at one of the marinas in the Cape May basin waiting for the right conditions to go outside to Atlantic City, I have a great idea for you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Schooner Island Marina is a large, full service marina with all the amenities you might be looking for. But you sailboat sailors out there? This might not be an option for you. But you powerboaters, most definitely make this part of your cruise plan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>N: Navigability</b> – Schooner Island Marina is only 3.6 miles north of the main Cape May basin on the New Jersey ICW. You do have to go through one drawbridge that opens on request. There is plenty of depth in the channel. The marina itself is on the green side, and when you're navigating it may appear to be a little shallow in places, but it's not formidable. </span></span>
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<b style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif;">S: Services –</b><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> Schooner Island Marina is a </span>full service<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> marina. They offer electricity, water, and a complete service department. They do haul-outs and on-the-hard storage during the off-season. Their fuel dock is large enough and sticks out in the channel very conveniently – easy to get fuel or a pump-out. They also have pump-out at the slips Monday through Thursday for $10.00.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">A: Amenities –</b><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> You name it, they have it: large bathrooms and showers, laundry, a small store, and a swimming pool. There are three large patio restaurants around the outside of the marina, as well as docks for several excursion boats. There are plenty of trees on the central island. A 24 hour Wawa is literally two blocks away (1/10</span><sup style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> of a mile). A</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> full-service </span><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Acme Supermarket is only 2/10ths of a mile away; it opens at 0600. See provisioning below.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>Verdict – </b>We originally booked a single night at Schooner Island Marina just to get a leg up on what was to be our first day on the NJICW. We ended up staying there an entire week to sit out the storms that blew through the area. We're glad we did. The staff is very good, the facilities are very nice, and with the Acme Supermarket just a few blocks away, and an easy channel to get to the marina in the first place, it really is an ideal place to visit. Besides, as I've said in the past, pump-out at the slip and a swimming pool are hard to beat in my book.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Penn's Landing Marina is located smack-dab in the heart of Philadelphia on the Delaware River. It's part of a larger development of attractions and can be quite busy. What it lacks in marina-like amenities it more than makes up for in its location. It's fabulous.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>N: Navigability</b> – Penn's Landing Marina is located in a small man-made basin on the shore of the Delaware River in Philadelphia. It's easily Identified by the Spirit of Philadelphia excursion boat that docks at the mouth. The entire eastern side of the marina is a large, heavy concrete seawall and pedestrian walkway. The current on the river can be substantial so plan your entrance accordingly. </span></span>
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<b style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">D: Dockage</b><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">– </b><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">I'm sorry, I don't have depth information when we entered. I was more concerned about not running into a fiberglass swan. BIG FAT WARNING – Once you enter the marina you are faced with </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">an </span><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">attraction area with paddleboats, canoes, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rowboats</span><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">, and small sailboats scurrying around the basin. They most definitely get in your way like one swan-shaped paddle boat did with us. The basin is large so maneuvering is easy. I didn't notice a current effect once in the basin. The dockhands are johnny on the spot helping you get in your slip. It is big-boat friendly. The floating docks are new-ish. It's all very secure.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">S: Services –</b><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> Penn's Landing is not a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">full-service</span><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> marina. They offer electricity and water and that's it. There is no reasonable pump-out available. Make sure you pump-out down in Delaware before you motor up to the marina. However, we did notice a pump-out rig on a small dock tied up to the Olympia warship attraction when we were on our way out. What's up with that? No dedicated bathrooms for marina guests. No showers. No laundry. Get the picture?</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">A: Amenities –</b><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> The entire Penn's Landing attraction area is very, very busy. It's loud and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">raucous</span><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">. But everyone seems to be in a happy mood. We've never got even a sniff of trouble. The marina itself is very secure with two code-lock gates. The large public walkway on the riverside is closed and locked at 2200 hours and opens back up at 0600. You have the combination to the lock so you can come and go as you please.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Bathrooms – If you would like access to a bathroom, there is a large public bathroom further north on Penn's Landing. It's open 0600 to 2200 and is on the north side of the amphitheater. There is a Starbucks 1.0 mile away at South Street and 4<sup>th</sup> Street that opens at 0530. But the closest accessible bathroom is a Wawa convenience store .7 miles away on 2<sup>nd</sup> Street. The Hilton Hotel is closed-off like Fort Knox.</span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: "open sans", arial, sans-serif;">A: Accessibility –</b><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> Get ready to walk. The entire downtown Philadelphia area is right at your doorstep. But just like all downtowns you have to hoof it some. Everything you want to see </span><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">is nearby</span><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">: Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, numerous museums. The Philadelphia Phlash bus line is cheap and convenient, and it runs from a bus loop at the north end of Penn's Landing out to all of the attractions. If you want to see where Rocky ran up the steps you have to take the Phlash out to the art museum.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>Verdict – </b>Sometimes we select a destination just so we have a bragging right. Penn's Landing Marina in Philadelphia is one of those places. Have you taken your boat up there? Nope, you probably haven't. Well, we have. So there. Nanner nanner. I dare you to do the same.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;">Summit North Marina (Bear, DE) is located on a branch off of the C and D Canal 8-ish statute miles west of where the canal intersects with the Delaware River. From there it's a short cruise north to Philadelphia (which should be a must-do for every adventurous boater) and Delaware Bay and Cape May to the south.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>N: Navigability</b> – Since you're on a canal you can't get lost. It's easy to get in and out of the marina. But there are two cautions worth mentioning. First, it can be shallow. We moored at Summit North twice in a week as bookends to our trip to Philadelphia. The first time we went in there at low tide, Why Knot kicked up a lot of mud while maneuvering at the dock, and for a three-foot draft boat to do that, that tells you that it can be shallow. The second time we went in, we were at high tide and didn't stir anything up. The other thing worth mentioning is the current in the canal. Our speeds in the canal varied from just under 7 smph to over 11 smph depending on the current. And to me, trying to get a grip on what the current was going to do was like trying to grab the wind. I couldn't do it. We just went with whatever was occurring at the time. The funny thing is that while, obviously, the tide raises and lowers the water level in the marina, the current seems to be a non-thing. There was never a sense of it. There were patches of grass and other floating stuff that seemed to just hang in one place or drifted slowly in or out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>A: Amenities –</b> The overall vibe of the place is rustic, but comfy. It is adjacent to Lums Pond State Park. It is also a trailhead for the varied walking, running, and bike paths up and down the canal shoreline. It's busy. For bathrooms and showers you have a choice of either the facilities at the marina office (rustic but clean. Big showers) or at the new restaurant building (The Grain). This is where the laundry is too. There is a swimming pool at the new building that boaters have access to. Yay! </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>A: Accessibility –</b> There ain't nothing around that you can walk to. Lisa did venture out on her bike to find quarters for laundry. She found a liquor store and a small market that were open at 0900 hours about two miles away. There are a few stores five or so miles north of the marina, but we didn't explore those opportunities.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">This is another marina review on the Why Knot Great Lakes Grand Tour. Using the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">N D S, A A, P P marina analysis model, I'll fill you in on what my experience was. </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u>The views expressed are strictly my own. </u></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Read these two blog entries to get up to speed: <a href="https://whyknotgreatlakesgrandtour.blogspot.com/2018/07/trouble-in-baltimore.html">https://whyknotgreatlakesgrandtour.blogspot.com/2018/07/trouble-in-baltimore.html</a> and <a href="https://whyknotgreatlakesgrandtour.blogspot.com/2018/07/trouble-in-baltimore-upon-further-review.html">https://whyknotgreatlakesgrandtour.blogspot.com/2018/07/trouble-in-baltimore-upon-further-review.html</a> </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Despite the challenge we faced on only our second day in the Inner Harbor, we would not hesitate to go back there again. I think they are taking steps to make things better. Perhaps you might like to make the trek there yourself. This review is about the actual workings of getting there and how to enjoy your time there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">One captain commented that every captain and crew must make a reasonable risk assessment as to where one travels. He was absolutely correct. My risk assessment is that there is an elevated risk of trouble at the Finger Piers at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. But this elevated risk when weighed against the opportunity to visit Baltimore up close and personal is worth it. There are other considerations against going there that may be more meaningful.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">NOTE: These docks are known locally as “The Finger Docks” or “The Finger Piers.”</span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif;">N: Navigability</b><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> – Easy. Just above the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, head up towards the busy commercial harbor on the well-marked channel of the Patapsco River. There is a split in the channel just in front of Fort McHenry. Go right, not left. Just keep going until you reach the end. That's the Inner Harbor.</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif;">D: Dockage</b><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif;">– </b><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">There are three 130 foot fixed piers sticking out from the west seawall, just in front of the two large white excursion boats. As you look at them from the water, the dock furthest to the left has a large old-fashioned looking tour boat tied up to it. The center and right dock are available to tie up to. They are first </span>come<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">, first serve. My advice is to tie up to the left side of the right pier or the right side of the center pier. The left side of the center dock is available too, but we saw </span>sporatic<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> use by tour boats there. There is electricity (iffy) and water. SPECIAL NOTE: This is not a </span>full service<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> marina and does not have pump out itself (nor it's own bathrooms and showers. More about that.) If you need to pump out upon arrival the nearest and easiest marina is Inner Harbor Marina to the left as you enter the Inner Harbor. $5. When you approach the piers to dock, you are on your own. No one is available to help you.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">After you arrive and get tied up, call the dockmaster at 410-396-3174. Patricia or someone on the staff will come down, get your registered and take your money. They do take credit cards, but not Discover.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>A: Amenities –</b> No showers of any kind available. No laundry. There are some public bathrooms nearby: </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The Baltimore Visitor's Center – 1000 to 1700 hours</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Public bathrooms in the building where Bubba Gumps and the Ripley's museum are located.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">There is a Starbucks very close at 100 E Pratt St, just off the inner harbor attraction area. Opens at 0530. Buy a cup of coffee and they'll give you the passcode.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, up on the fifth floor. </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>A: Accessibility –</b> This is an area where things are actually in very good shape. There is a free bus service called the Charm City Circulator. The multiple routes actually go places rather than it being a little downtown circular trolley. The two routes you'd be most interested in are the Purple route and the Banner route. The Purple route takes you into downtown, and most helpfully, to Penn Station (more about that later). The Banner route is the bus you take to the Harris Teeter grocery store in the McHenry Row neighborhood, as well as other stores and shops. See the next section about that. But the Purple route is helpful also. Uber and Lyft are everywhere.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>P: Provisioning –</b> Harris Teeter, 1.6 miles, is almost directly on the Banner route. Pick up the bus across Light Street from the Inner Harbor area. Go south. Get off at Whetstone Way, walk two short blocks – boom, there you are. When you're going back you walk back to where you got off the bus, cross East Fort Street to the corner at the Woodall Stop. There's also a Whole Foods around the other side of the harbor, but we don't count that as a provisioning resource. There's also a CVS 1,500 feet away from the piers. Baltimore hustles, so there are lots of stores and services of all kinds available.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>P: Price – </b>Their published transient rate on Active Captain is $2.00 per foot plus electrical. That's it. No discounts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">One of the great features of Baltimore is access to Washington D.C. Remember the Purple Circulator Route? Hop on the bus north that takes you directly to Penn Station. From there you can take the MARC commuter train that will whisk you off to Washington's Union Station in an hour for only $8 per person each way. Cheap. The aforementioned Visitors Center has all the info you need about it. Then in </span>Washington<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> you can buy a prepaid transit pass card and take the DC Circulator all around the town. It's really </span>easy,<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> and fun. The MARC train also goes to BWI (the Baltimore airport).</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif;">Verdict – </b><span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">It is unfortunate that Baltimore's Public Finger Piers have so much baggage. It is a high-energy and exciting destination. Maybe one of the gated marinas </span>are<span style="font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> more to your liking. That's perfectly understandable. But the Finger Piers puts you smack dab in the middle of all the action.</span></div>
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Darrell "Skipper Darrell" Grobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10068244497704480709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969803410249854788.post-85533101645273797872018-07-13T06:06:00.000-05:002018-07-13T06:06:28.587-05:00SLIGHT CHANGE OF PLANS, IN A GOOD WAY<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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As I write this we are at Summit North Marina in Bear, DE. We skipped going to Skipjack Cove Marina on the Sassafras River because we needed to pick up a day.</div>
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So far this cruising season we have been dead on or slightly ahead of the schedule. (And yes, I know. Boaters are not supposed to keep a schedule. Yeah, yeah. I do. Planning is my jam.) At this moment we are almost a week ahead. That is, to me, awesome as all get out. It gives us an opportunity to call an audible and do something extra special.</div>
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And what is this extra special thing? We're going to Philadelphia by boat, again. We made the trek a few years ago at the prodding of our friends on Sareanna. It was a wonderful time. As a matter of fact, it is in our Top Five Boating Destinations along with Boca Chita, Annapolis, Stoney Lake, and Charlevoix. We're really looking forward to going there again.</div>
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But, to do so we had to make some changes to the cruise plan. As mentioned, we skipped Skipjack Cove and doubled-up our day from Baltimore to Summit North on the CandD Canal. We downsized our stay in Atlantic City from three days to one. (For some reason I have my mind set on seeing the Boardwalk. We don't need three days to do that.) And then we'll consider going directly from Philly to Cape May in one very, very long day. The tides look favorable for that.</div>
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We're excited to go back to Philadelphia. And Lisa is particularly happy about it, and I'll do anything for her.</div>
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Let's see – Spend three days in Atlantic city or make Lisa happy? Hmmmm. That's easy.</div>
Darrell "Skipper Darrell" Grobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10068244497704480709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5969803410249854788.post-41137071090814943392018-07-12T03:35:00.001-05:002018-07-12T05:24:01.934-05:00Trouble In Baltimore – UPON FURTHER REVIEW<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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A week ago I published a blog post titled “Trouble In Baltimore”. In it, I described how our boat was boarded by a couple of wannabee thieves in the middle of the night. I told how we heard them climbing around on the deck and how I shooshed them off the boat when I confronted them with a flagpole I brandished as a club. That's all true and is a cautionary story about mooring in urban waterfront environments. Now, though, I believe it is only fair to finish the narrative.<br />
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We were on the public finger docks in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore for an entire week, July 5 to July 12, and I am glad to report that we did not have a speck of trouble of any kind since that incident early on. Nothin'. Zero. Nada. Not only that, due to circumstances beyond our control, we had to leave the boat unattended for twenty-four hours and nothing happened.</div>
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Let me put it this way: we felt perfectly safe and comfortable on the finger docks in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore after that initial incident. There was no gunfire, no riots, no trouble of any kind at all. We wish we had more time there so we could have really dig deep into the city and everything it had to offer.<br />
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Vandalism can happen at any un-gated marina to anybody's boat. It just so happened that it happened to us in Baltimore which had a rap sheet of trouble already. But I observed that Baltimore Police had a very sizable and robust presence all around us the entire time, 24 hours a day. I know for a fact in talking with the downtown dockmaster, they have security cameras that cover 100% of the waterfront, and these cameras are monitored 24 hours a day. There are certainly reasons not to avail oneself of the city docks in Baltimore, such as there not being any shoreside amenities like showers and laundry, but, with a grain of cautionary forethought, security does not necessarily need to be a hindrance to enjoying oneself there.</div>
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Now, I know there are a lot of readers that have already voiced their opinion that being down at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore is a bad idea and that the city is doomed to become America's next downtown hellhole. Whatever. Our experience ended up being a positive one.<br />
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So, instead of everyone bitching about how horrible the Inner Harbor is, I have a better idea. I want to use this as a forum to talk about boat security in general.</div>
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What are your thoughts on how to secure your boat better? I am quite certain we all could do a better job at it. Here are some that I have.</div>
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<li>Don't leave bicycles exposed on deck. That's an open invitation for someone to scamper on board. And you boaters that just leave them secured to your boat's grab rails with just a bungee cord are asking for trouble no matter where you are. And cover your bikes with a tarp. Don't advertise that you have them on deck. Or, if you can manage, put them on your highest deck.</li>
<li>And speaking of bungee cords, if you do have to secure something valuable on your deck and insist on using bungee cords, use a lot of them. Part of your deterrence protocol should be to make theft as difficult and inconvenient as possible.</li>
<li>Use eyed cables and padlocks on anything you want to keep. You can buy bike cables at any big-box store, but I make my own that are longer. Every hardware store has rolls of flexible, plastic-covered steel cable of several different gauges that you can have cut to any length you want. Crimps are also available. Padlocks are cheap.</li>
<li>Put your covers on your windows so nobody can spy inside your boat. If they can't see something tempting to steal, they may not bother.</li>
<li>Most thieves are not familiar with boat interiors and wouldn't know where to look for anything valuable even if they did get inside. If you have to leave your boat, stow valuables in hiding places.</li>
<li>Lock your damn doors and hatches when you leave your boat. (I'm guilty of this one. I get sucked into the “safe marina” mindset.)</li>
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One more morsel to think about – are we boaters any more exposed and vulnerable than when we are on the hook at some isolated anchorage? Billy-Bob and Floyd have a jon boat and a shotgun, and they know where all the getaway creeks and channels are. I think I'm more worried about them. The only other time we've had any trouble was when we were boarded at night AT AN ANCHORAGE at Lake Worth in Florida.</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>N: Navigability</b> – Annapolis bills itself as the Sailing Capital of America, or the East Coast, or wherever, so it is an extremely well-maintained harbor. Plenty of water everywhere. Well marked channels. </span></span>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;">Staying in the Annapolis Mooring Field is a singularly amazing feat. It's fun, exciting, and surprisingly easy. And you're in Annapolis, fer cry-yi-yi. There's the Naval Academy, the State Capital, museums, bars, restaurants, shops, Chick and Ruth's Delly, and so much more. It is an amazing place, and being out in the mooring field is as exciting as anything you can do on your boat. And what is my favorite store? Hats In The Belfry. I buy a new hat every time we're there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Verdict – </b>IT'S ANNAPOLIS! THE COOLEST PLACE ON EARTH! AND STAYING IN THE MOORING FIELD IS FUN!</span></span></div>
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