Itinerary for Big Trip (LI sound / Hamptons / CT)

[rangerscott275]

please see attached! I'd love feedback!

 

[CapetaniosG]

The new Greenport marina is very nice. An up to date facility. The cost is $3.00/ft with free electric and internet. Close to everything. Greenport came back and it is now a tourist destination. The whole North Fork of LI is just as good. I'm glad I live here. The potatoe fields are almost gone and replaced with acres and acres of vinards and it is only 100 miles from NYC. Have a great time and enjoy it.

CapetaniosG
Hatteras 53MY

 

[Capt K]

In Greenport, I usually stay at Townsend Manor Marina or Brewer's Stirling Harbor Marina, but the new town marina has come out awesome. It has taken many years for them to finally pull it off, but it's great! The carousel and other things are right there.

Sounds like a great trip. Enjoy! We are at Essex Island Marina right now, in fact. We leave tomorrow for Block Island.

K

 

[Freebird]

Sounds like a great trip. Enjoy! We are at Essex Island Marina right now, in fact. We leave tomorrow for Block Island.

K

Hey Capt Krunch,

Forgit about that cruisin' up there in NY. Look at what these other fellers told me about when I told 'em I wanted to go to Grand Cayman.

 

[(Nobody You Know)]

Hey Capt'n Krunch, Traveler,

pay no 'tention to Bubba Reggie. He been boatin too long on the Tennessee and eatin all them locks and dodgin sand bars ('cept Hales Bar and Watts Bar - and other kinds of bars if you know what I mean). Head on up the Sound just like you planned.

Keep a sharp eye out for the lobster traps which are like confetti. When you set your auto pilot you effectively surrender steering. But can still dodge the traps by speeding up or slowing down either the port or starboard throttle and easily avoid them (with syncs off).

You like wines? Rent-A-weck in Greesport will come "ana gitcha" and you folks can enjoy one of LI's greatest secrets - the vinyards of Greenport. (Beats that joyjuice they brew up around K'ville, TN - but not Lynchburg, ok). Then, when you head on over to Essex (Soundings used to be headquartered there) enjoy an evening at the Griswold. Great food and great local live entertainment (yankee buddy of mine use to play in the band there).

Watch the GPS when heading on over to Sag, there's some mean ole rocks just off the Plum (Gut). Also it gets real narrow when entering the Yacht Club so be careful now ya hear. Sounds like a geat line up. Wish I was going.

Capt'n Bill

 

[Freebird]

Hey Capt'n Krunch, Traveler,

pay no 'tention to Bubba Reggie. He been boatin too long on the Tennessee and eatin all them locks and dodgin sand bars ('cept Hales Bar and Watts Bar - and other kinds of bars if you know what I mean).

Capt'n Bill

Hey Capt'n Bill,

I don't think me an you have exchanged any ideas yet. I looked up yore skirt and saw you are a NC boy too. Lessin' I'm the one who educated you, how'd you know about Hales Bar and Watts Bar? Hell far, most of the boaters at my marina never even heard of Hales Bar. You been snoopin' around here without a passport? You been down "The Gorge" in God's country where Hales Bar is? You must have ESPN or sumthin' cause I know I ain't talked about Hales Bar on this here forem. Fess up bubba, what's goin' on here?

 

[Norm Mayer]

Sounds like a great trip! You are going to love that town. I don't care how old you are, go check out that restored carousel. It is beautifully restored. One point on your itinerary I didn't understand. The time difference of estimated departure time and arival time doesn't seem to match your calculated travel time. Error? or did you build in a fudge factor?

 

[Passages]

Scott,
Wow, gotta be one of the best organized float plans I've ever seen. (Truth, I've never known anyone to put together a floatplan)

A suggestion for the run after Essex. Consider Cedar Island Marina in Clinton. It's only 5 miles short of Guilford. A nice full service marina with restaurant, pool, free shuttle from town and best of all, I work across the street and would be happy to swing by and buy you a beer.

See link:
http://www.cedarislandmarina.com/

 

[MikeP]

Scott,

In the following references I tried to save a pic of the map off Mapsource and post it but couldn't figure out how. So I just listed the grids. I also can't figure out how to plug the grids back into mapsource on the computer and have it go to that map position. Should work fine on the actual GPS unit.

Greenwich cove is a nice spot but a bit shallow at LT for a 53. It is also nearly full of moorings - I don't know where there would be room to anchor.
We used to go there all the time in our previous boat; I belonged to a club that had a mooring there but I had to leave the group because they don't allow boats over 40ft in the club. If you go in there, watch the rock at N41 00.782 W73 34.907 There is USUALLY a bouy marking it but sometimes there isn't. The rock is definitely there, bouy or not!

Re Port Jeff - I guess it depends on your druthers but I wouldn't stay at the marina. They have become too ate up with themselves. They charge dinks 6 dollars to land and 7 dollars for motorcycle parking; both were free until this season. Additionally, their boat slip rates are absurd. We prefer to anchor in this area - N40 57.962 W73 05.908 It's a 15 min dink ride. Also, a REALLY neat place to anchor at pt Jeff is here: N40 58.189 W73 06.871 this will be a considerably longer dink ride. For the second one you will wind around a little channel and anchor a few hundred feet north of a small island. Very quiet area.

Oyster Bay is also nice. Anchor here: N40 52.784 W73 30.640 a 10 min dink ride at the most.

As you can tell, we generally prefer to anchor if possible - it keeps us away from the riff raff!

 

[34Hatt]

I also agree great job on the float plan. Greenport Marina as said has come out great, and during the week it will be real nice. The orient area watch out for the pots it like a mine field some times. If you go into Orient harbor you most likely will be better off close to Bug light since it usally is a SW wind. It is nice and quite over there. I will keep a eye out for ya but during the week I am in work checking on this forum .
Have a good trip!

 

[rangerscott275]

Hey all,

thanks very much for all the advice...I'm going to call Greenport marinas now and check on availability. Also, thanks for anchoring spot tips in port jeff and the suggestion for Clinton.....I'm still working on this so I'll fill you in on any changes. (for the most part I think I'm there).

Yeah, I built in a fudge factor for time...what you don't see in the float plan that I posted are a bunch of other columns holding data like....places I'm stopping, good restraunts to try, where I"m planning on getting fuel, current pricing, good beaches, who my guests are for each leg....all that kind of stuff. That is why there is a time discrepancy.

I'm psyched! I've been going nuts trying to get the boat ready for this and a few more weeks and I'm off....just got dedicated celluar internet for laptop, and new snorkel gear and diving knife yesterday....I think outfitting is almost as much fun as going!

Thanks again for input!!

 

[labrador]

You may want to check out Northport. Great little town and you can either get a mooring or I understand the town dock can take you with electric and water ( Mike you can probably give better info as I usually either pick up a mooring or anchor there) Great resterants and very friendly town. One of my favorites

 

[Paul45c]

I'm psyched! I've been going nuts trying to get the boat ready for this and a few more weeks and I'm off....just got dedicated celluar internet for laptop, and new snorkel gear and diving knife yesterday....I think outfitting is almost as much fun as going!

It's true...if all you think about are the destinations, then doing all the work getting ready feels like, well, WORK. Heck, these days I even enjoy going through the supermarket the last night before the journey and doing the final stock-up of perishables.

Enjoy what looks like a great trip.

 

[Nonchalant1]

Neat trip!

But are those the transient prices up there?

$4.50/ft for a transient slip is $250 just t park your boat for a night??? WOW!!

Doug

 

[rangerscott275]

I know...it is soooo expensive. I would prefer to be on the hook, but since this is my first big trip, my girlfriends first boat trip, I'm picking up / dropping off a bunch of different guests, etc....I think I'm comfortable paying the money to eliminate extra stresses of trying to locate right spot, etc., and spend the time enjoy exploring new places we come to with a piece of mind that I have a space waiting for me and amenities there to greet me & my guests. I'm anchoring a few nights....good introduction to life on the hook and hopefully next trip I'll be comfortable enough to do alot more of it.

 

[rangerscott275]

Oh, and yeah....you definitely gotta have all the gear! In planning / provisioning for this trip, I've come up with 100 'would be cool' items that someday I'll build or buy or install....I think that is the best part of owning the boat....customization and all the dreaming that goes into it!

 

[nyrussell]

Scott,

Great trip it seems like. Let me know if you want to borrow a jerry can or two for the trip. Thanks for letting us use yours last week. One note, you forgot lunch at City Island ( 3 hours for us at 1250 rpm btween 6-9 knots ) LOL. Wife had a blast for our first Dock and Dine. Going to do another now it seems. Really wish we were going with ya.

Have fun and let me know if you need to borrow anything before you go.

Noel

 

[34Hatt]

Scott
I saw Hamburg cove in the plan will you be staying the night there? Rentals are $20.00 @night and a beautiful spot. You can hook to any mooring but have to move if owner shows up I find it easier to pay the 20, also you then can bring garbage to marina in the back. Also dighy ride back there and Selden Creek go all the way around the Island don't miss that one. Let me know if you need more Info it is a little farther up the river same side as Hamburg.

 

[ELECTRA VI]

I really enjoyed Essex Island marina. Stayed there in the 80's when I cruised to Block Island one summer.

 

[(Nobody You Know)]

Hey Capt'n Bill,

I don't think me an you have exchanged any ideas yet.

Freebird:

Yea I’ve been through The Gorge a couple of times (too little - Signal Mtn). That river is stunningly beautiful. You can boat right through old farms, etc. You are lucky to be there. Some 17 years ago the Admiral and I started the trailer boating arm of the Atlanta Power Squadron and towed a 26’ Sea Ray all over the south – fresh, salt, Chesapeak, Gulf, Joe Wheeler, Tellico, Appalachicola – and much more. Even Nippers (if know what I mean). Lot’s of memories, close calls, great moments, dumb mistakes (the Carver, etc.), and wonderful friends forever.

Speaking which, some keep a boat in Port Washington on LI Sound. I used to be the only southern boy who could get around the Sound w/o a chart (Passages has it right, Clinton, CT. is a very charming little place with at least one good restaurant. This little community actually resembles coastal areas in the Carolinas when you enter the small channel. In short, we’ve been to a lot of places, and still got a lot more to go. We work to fund our boating.

It’s tough to hammer this keybord about boating while my boat is 6.5 hours away in Carolina Beach (as in shag). Talk now is how to get (Nobody You Know) around Florida this winter and up the Tombigbee to Chickamaga for next summer. Only plan to live in Athens, Ga for say 3 more years and don’t want to go away wishin we had done it. Problems range from getting back and forth to work, limited & pricey FL slips, insurance, etc., etc. BTW, how does one go about enrolling in the Medical College for Freelance Gynacology?

Rangerscott,
you have allowed considerable time to make the run to Huntington. Hope you are going south and around “The Lady” and not the Harlem (logs, plywood, car bodies, pallets, dragons, etc. of all descript). Speakin of anchoring out there is a great cove just above Essex on the Connecticut (can’t remember the name). Hope you can locate it.

Wish you a safe and memorable journey.

Capt’n Bill
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“These ARE the good old days”. Jack B. Wooten, Statesville, N.C.