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15-10-2010, 04:50
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#46
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Centreville, VA
Boat: Lagoon 410 ELECTRIC!
Posts: 367
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Def,
I'm with you, I'm about 1 1/2 hours away out side of DC and spend just about every weekend on the boat. It's just far enough away to feel like I'm getting away from it all yet close enough to home if there is a real emergency. If I was real close I wonder if I would enjoy it as much. Now in Solomons MD I'm a 20 min. sail to the Bay and have a hole new group of boat friends to play with.
Steve in Solomons MD
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15-10-2010, 05:25
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#47
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Hudson Valley N.Y.
Boat: contessa 32
Posts: 826
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15 minutes from house to cockpit,not the best sailing here in the hudson valley, but the landscape is unsurpassed.
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15-10-2010, 05:49
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#48
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Naples, FL
Boat: Leopard Catamaran
Posts: 2,572
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Quote:
Originally Posted by senormechanico
I knew I'd been on the boat too long (not really possible) when I got in my car one misty morning and reached to the dashboard to turn on the radar...
...and how hard it was to push myself to go more than 25 mph...
...and how much concentration it took to keep the car between those white lines...
...when I got to a mall parking lot and marveled at how the car just STAYED in one place all by itself without an anchor...
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Thats great!
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15-10-2010, 09:46
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#49
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2003
Boat: Dragonfly 1000 trimaran
Posts: 7,155
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Quote:
Originally Posted by capn_billl
Thats great!
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And a true story. No exaggeration.
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The question is not, "Who will let me?"
The question is,"Who is going to stop me?"
Ayn Rand
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15-10-2010, 10:09
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#50
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: We're technically refugees from our home in Yemen now living in Lebenon
Boat: 1978 CT48
Posts: 5,964
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35 min to airport
1-1/2 hours at the airport
3 to 5 hour flight depending on which day I go.
30 min for Immigration
35 min to the house
15 min to the boat.
Between 6 1/2 and 8 1/2 hours.
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S/V Arctic Lady
I love my boat, I can't afford not to!
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15-10-2010, 10:13
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#51
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Fernandina Beach, FL
Boat: Island Packet 380 - Delta Blues
Posts: 353
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I used to live about an hour and 15 from the boat. Decided to move close to the boat, and now I commute an hour and 15 to work. Best decision I ever made.
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15-10-2010, 10:18
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#52
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Elvish meaning 'Far-Wanderer'
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Boat - Greece - Me - Michigan
Boat: 56' Fountaine Pajot Marquises
Posts: 3,489
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2.5 hours for my powerboat in Michigan and 8 hours for the sailboat in St. Martin. I'm on both regularly and enjoy what both offer.
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Our course is set for an uncharted sea
Dante
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15-10-2010, 11:10
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#53
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
Posts: 12,822
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As James the OP said, this is not for cruisers to gloat. But I am amazed theres been 50+ replies to this thread in 24 hours... and that so many have so far to go... 2 hours drive or more is a sterling effort!!
no matter how far, its worth it
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15-10-2010, 11:15
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#54
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Spencerport, NY, USA
Boat: 1974 Paceship PY23
Posts: 26
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35 minutes one way. When selecting my marina, it had to be within 45 minutes.
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1974 Paceship PY23 "Barely Awake"
Hull # 001
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15-10-2010, 12:51
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#55
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Chesapeake Bay
Boat: 22' Avalon Pontoon - The WINE BARge
Posts: 164
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkJ
But I am amazed theres been 50+ replies to this thread in 24 hours...
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Mark, Most of us are probably just so happy there's a question we can actually answer with certainty!
Kitty
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15-10-2010, 12:57
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#56
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Toronto, Canada
Boat: Mirage 27 in Toronto; Wright 10 in Auckland
Posts: 771
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Five minutes if I get the lights, seven if not.
We do a lot of short sails -- couple of hours in the evening -- because we can be off the dock 15 minutes after leaving home.
Connemara
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15-10-2010, 13:40
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#57
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Eternal Member
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Boat: Vancouver 36 cutter????
Posts: 620
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3 hours and $6 in tolls one way.
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USCG/MCA IV/M.I./C.I. 500-ton Oceans
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15-10-2010, 14:08
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#58
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Halifax
Posts: 451
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Quote:
Originally Posted by g0twind
35 minutes one way. When selecting my marina, it had to be within 45 minutes.
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Hull 1, wow!!! you better take good care of that girl- she`s a treasure!
Oh yeah- about a 5 minute walk.
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15-10-2010, 14:46
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#59
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Northern NSW Australia
Boat: Custom
Posts: 749
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OK just suggested to wife we should move closer to the marina, apparently she will miss me!
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James
"I get knocked down but I get up again" eventually.
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15-10-2010, 14:51
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#60
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Thibodaux, Louisiana
Boat: Monk 36 Trawler
Posts: 679
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35-40 min
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