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I love to sail the San Juan Islands. Usually spend a week there every late summer. Going there Aug. 2nd-9th this year.

Rich---Hamin' X---N7ZH

I know it's going to sound really corny, but I don't have a favorite. Anywhere I get to drop anchor, lay back and enjoy the quiet of the water is a great spot. It could be the Delaware, with all of its freighters, tugs, or the back bay areas of Atlantic City, or somewhere on Lake George, but once the anchor drops into the soft stuff below, I don't care. The Admiral and myself just turn up the stereo and enjoy lunch, or just the lazy time together. Sometimes, lifes a boat


Ray

Well said, NiceAft. No matter where you are at the end of the day, a nice glass of wine and good friends on a boat.

Rich---Hamin' X---N7ZH

Cape Cod.

Marthas Vineyard - Tashmoo, Menemsha, Poge Bay

Cuttyhunk

Woods Hole

Nantucket

7 days on the beach with 10 year old twin girls - priceless.

Chesapeake Bay, a gunkholers paradise.

Lake Winnipesaukee. Heaven on earth.

Lake Winnipesaukee is my "home waters". For 30+ years, my grandfather had an island cottage on Little Bear Island, not far from where Kevin visits here. Winni has always been & still is a special place. However, my favorite waters are the coast of Maine, Casco Bay to Downeast, specifically of late: Penobscot Bay!

I'm with Cuisto on this one. The North Channel of Lake Huron has countless little, secluded bays. You can spend some nights as isolated or as neighborly as you wish. The water in those little bays is fresh, clean, and warm enough for a nice swim - in July. Just don't forget to employ the mosquito screens before dusk.

Hi kmclemore I see on the photo you have a ladder on the bow explane please. I was thinking of something like that rope ladder.

bubba wrote:Hi kmclemore I see on the photo you have a ladder on the bow explane please. I was thinking of something like that rope ladder.

Well, frankly, that was a total piece of garbage... didn't work well at all, and I ended up aggravating my knee injury with the d*mn thing. So.. don't buy one of those!

Now, as to what to do for a proper bow ladder, I'm still looking. I think I will try to find some sort of collapsible, rigid ladder... I don't want to drill holes up there if I can avoid it, and the rope ladders just don't work.

kmclemore wrote:...Well, frankly, that was a total piece of garbage... didn't work well at all, and I ended up aggravating my knee injury with the d*mn thing. ... and the rope ladders just don't work.

What have you found that does help? I am down with one marginal and one bad knee and am concerned about letting the boat get away from me, particularly during rigging and ramp activities.

I wish that I had had my camera with me when I saw the perfect bow ladder. It was built as part of the bow anchor roller and folded up with the simple pull of a lanyard. It looked to be made of aluminum and stowed on the bow under the bow pulpit and on top of the roller. It looked something like those pantograph/scissor type steps that you see on the back of slide-in pickup campers, but longer and narrower. They collapsed up into a small package and then pivoted backwards onto the deck.


Rich---Hamin' X---N7ZH

Rich, was it like this?



Also, here's some evaluative tests... oh, and they hated the d*mned rope ladder as much as I did.

http://www.boatus.com/foundation/Findings/boarding.htm

Back to Gunkholing. This weekend I have to work and cant be on the water so I am off to play bluegrass music all day at the local mall for a fund raiser. The bow ladders are something that I will try.

Wrong style, Kevin. The one that I saw had actual scissor type extension.

Rich---Hamin' X---N7ZH