Southport Sail

[Tomfoolery]

We're interested in making that date. It's a big trip (2 days, with just me doing the driving), maybe with our Lab, and would involve taking time to explore the area and look at retirement real estate, which is the big motivator for the admiral (the boat is just something to tow behind, and keep me happy ). We'll see.

Pencil me in as a 'maybe'.

[Doug W]

It's a big trip (2 days, with just me doing the driving)

I've submitted my time off request. We plan on arriving Friday the 6th and staying until Thursday the 12th or Friday the 13th!

Just curious, how far of a drive is it from NY? It's about 1150 miles each way for us! Hope you can make it!

Doug & Angie
Galactica

[Tomfoolery]

It's a big trip (2 days, with just me doing the driving)

I've submitted my time off request. We plan on arriving Friday the 6th and staying until Thursday the 12th or Friday the 13th!

Just curious, how far of a drive is it from NY? It's about 1150 miles each way for us! Hope you can make it!

Got me beat, by 350 miles! It's about 800 miles and about 13-1/2 hours for me, each way, though that's an optimistic elapsed time given we'd be dragging a 26X with a Highlander (plenty of power, but short and light), and we'd have to get around DC without getting stuck in all that traffic, so I'd probably go a bit more west to stay away from it.

[Tomfoolery]

I should add that the Havasu Pocket Cruisers Convention is on my bucket list. That's 2400 miles and 36 hours driving time (mapquest estimate), each way! That's a loooong drive, and I'd have to do it all. We actually have some friend who retired to Las Vegas, so like the trip the Southport (also have friends down there), there's something for the admiral, and something for me, and as far as the friends in Nevada, well lets just say I'll be doing a LOT of sailing. And sleeping on the boat.

Seems they're not doing the HPCC this year, so I don't feel bad about missing it again, but hopefully by the time I have the time to do that trip, it'll still be a thing.

[Erik Hardtle]

Ya dang pirates!

Ya hijacked my Scallywag Sail location!

How can I join sometin' that ya backstabbin' bunch of louts stole from me! And then to give it some wimpy name!

Grow a pair of Cannonballs and give it good name! I might be willin' to barter with ya for me Scallywag Sail name...

I might even gives ya the honor of sailin' with a real pirate... me!

(I don't know why... it's a priate thing)

[cptron]

I'll take those cannon balls that I grow and aim for ye mast. Once demasted I will tow you home like a whipped pup. Let it be known that if we allow you to sail with us you will have to prove that your can measure up or we keel haul ya.
Remember. YOU SAIL WITH US; YOU SAIL WITH THE BEST.

Sorry, couldnt let it go unchallenged. You know the pirate thing.

Ya dang pirates!

Ya hijacked my Scallywag Sail location!

How can I join sometin' that ya backstabbin' bunch of louts stole from me! And then to give it some wimpy name!

Grow a pair of Cannonballs and give it good name! I might be willin' to barter with ya for me Scallywag Sail name...

I might even gives ya the honor of sailin' with a real pirate... me!

(I don't know why... it's a priate thing)

[Doug W]

Argh! Know ye that Galactica sails a 10 gauge cannon and she be known to sail into an anchorage barking her mighty roar! Don't ye know, matey! Arghhhh!

[Doug W]

Looking at various Marinas, I see this beautiful BLUE sitting serenely on Southport's Indigo Plantation Marina's website.

Doug & Angie

[cptron]

Looking at various Marinas, I see this beautiful BLUE sitting serenely on Southport's Indigo Plantation Marina's website.

Yes I know those people very well. They bought that boat after going out sailing with the admiral and I. They are very nice people and am hoping to get them to join in this year.

[fishheadbarandgrill]

Ron, isn't that the folks with the furling main that joined up with us as we returned to Southport?

Bob

[cptron]

Ron, isn't that the folks with the furling main that joined up with us as we returned to Southport?

Bob

Yes it is. I lost his number when I got a my new phone but there is still plenty of time to catch up with him to see if he can join us this year.

[Doug W]

I hope that they can join us, I'd love to check out his furling main and see how it sails!

Doug

[cptron]

I am going to need for people to start sending me their info so I can make arrangements with the dockmaster.
Boat Name:
Captain:
Crew:
Planned Arrival date:(if comeing for longer than the weekend)

[Tomfoolery]

I am going to need for people to start sending me their info so I can make arrangements with the dockmaster.
Boat Name: TOMFOOLERY
Captain: Tom
Crew: Jeri (wife, er, admiral - yeah, that's right - Tom and Jeri )
Planned Arrival date:(if comeing for longer than the weekend) Don't know - it's a 2-day drive, each way, so would like to have a week there, with the boat in the water.

Boat Name: TOMFOOLERY
Captain: Tom
Crew: Jeri (wife, er, admiral - yeah, that's right - Tom and Jeri )
Planned Arrival date:(if comeing for longer than the weekend) Don't know - it's a 2-day drive, each way, so would like to have a week there, with the boat in the water.

I'll need a place to leave the trailer, as we'll also be looking around the area for retirement real estate, and to visit friends in the area (Wilmington, mainly).

That is, if we can make it at all, but we're working to make that happen. Too soon to be 100% sure.

[fishheadbarandgrill]

I recommend the Southport Marina on W.West Street. You can launch from their ramp and you can park your vehicle and trailer in their lot. That's what everyone did last year. I can't imagine them not allowing you to disengage your tow vehicle from the trailer for house hunting and such... presuming you'll be keeping the boat in the marina. Unlike the state run Wildlife Access ramps which don't allow trailer only parking...

Bob