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• Boat Layover in Maine
  • Lots of places
    • Rockland is nice but
      • Jerry, please check your maps and charts
        • Agreed. Good spot to pick up the bus, train or airplane to points south.
        • don't need to check charts
          • Whatever you say, Jerry
        • From (say Portland, ME) Rockland is about 25 miles closer than Belfast --- BUT...
          • Google maps difference is half an hour
            • Then 20 whatever miles more is what it is ;^)
    • Another vote for Rockland
      • How did you get your Maine Cat to the west coast?
        • Ahhh, just
          • Did it go by ship?
            • Deck cargo
              • If yours is like mine, the only issue with single-handing is
                • You're right of course...
                  • I did a delivery on a Catana 47 once...
                    • Nice! That would take some stress out of things
                      • Single handing.
                        • Single handed anchoring...
                          • I figure
                          • Hmm, wireless windlass control? Mine's
                            • Ahhhh, nothing like a good 'ole Seatiger!
                              • Yup, keeps a licking and...you know the rest. The one thing I want to upgrade on it is
                                • Er, make that TAKES a licking (Somehow beer clouds your thinking, or is it typing?)
                                • Check out sl.spares@ntlworld.com
                                  • Thanks, Buk...or is it Pete...I've lost track of your name...actually, it was you who gave me his contact info earlier,
                          • Pretty much how I do it too
                            • Larry, you can get a wireless bow thruster control pretty cheap these days...
                      • The increasing use of such gizmos represents a VERY dangerous trend, IMHO...
                        • Only about a dozen??? Lots more than that! You are so right Jon
                        • The idea of relying on wireless is very scary.
                        • Everything about those scare me...
                          • I don't even like wired electronic controls
                            • Some of the latest generation electronic controls from Caterpillar or Detroit are amazingly complex...
                        • Well now, all new cars have a fly-by-wire throttle and nothing ever goes wrong with them, does it ?
      • Charlie was there last summer...