Just an update
We will be moving our 'new' Beneteau 381 from Hingham, MA to Portsmouth, RI this weekend. In the last week the 8 (eight) people who had expressed an interest have all backed out for completely understandable reasons , the most recent being the prior owner who opted out within the last hour - I am down to two confirmed and two maybes - so I am most likely two crew short for this weekend.
The plan is to spend Friday night on the boat (in Hingham, MA) and leave before 7.00am on Saturday, it's an hour motoring out of Boston harbor and then a nice sail all the way down to the East end of the canal. Once we get there (mid/late afternoon) we have options :
1. Stop for the night in Sandwich marina and go through the canal on the ebb the following morning, finishing up in Portsmouth late sunday afternoon.
2. Going through the canal after a "rest" for dinner on the 8.31pm ebb and then taking a mooring in Marion or similar around 10.00pm, finishing up the next day around mid afternoon
3. Carrying on under a forecast clear, moonlit sky, probably arriving back at about 3.00am and either anchoring out at the head of the Saknonnet (or grabbing a mooring for a few hours) and then bringing the boat inot the marina or seeing as the marina is well lit, bringing the boat in to the marina when we get there.
if you are interested, let me know
Mark
Thanks to those who did express an interest, I know how tough it is balancing priorities these days and I appreciate your offers.
CREW ? - Moving boat this next weekend from MA to RI
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So did the boat move happen? How did it go?
Tim Allen -- 1980 Peterson 34 GREYHAWK
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Well the boat is 'home' and the one word to describe the 'delivery' is COLD! Probably like September in Maine, right ?
As I think you all know I?d had issues with crew beforehand due to the prior weekends storms, family commitments and sickness (more on the sickness later), but by Friday late morning we were confirmed for a Saturday morning departure with 3 on board for the 100NM trip from Hingham to Portsmouth, RI.,
SATURDAY
Three of us - Norm, Keri (my sister in law) and I, left Hingham at 10:00am on Saturday in a forecast mid 40's day with forecast 1-2ft seas and 10-15 knot NW wind. We motored out of Hingham and followed the winding but well marked channel out through Hull gut and gradually increased our hull speed until we were running the engine at around 2,600rpm and making 7 knots (SOG). There must be an issue with the paddle wheel because I was getting zero readout (or I don't know how to initialize the system) but I was getting a good SOG readout from the chartplotter. Just another thing on the albeit short to-do list.
We raised the main just South of Boston light in 8KN of wind and picked up SOG to slightly over 8 knots on a beam reach, sheltering behind the dodger and got some nice shots of the Boston skyline behind the helmsmans shoulder. Given that we were probably going to be motor sailing all day I elected to not put up the genoa and to try and keep the boat flatter and the engine lubricated.
Spirits were good and both the crew and the new boat were beginning to gel. Norm has been sailing in this area for 25 years and was a veritable source of knowledge on local history, points to look out for and the of course the time flew by. By 11.00am we had Minots light in sight and passed by this 'lighthouse with a history' at our closest point around noon.
As our course came round closer to due south the apparent wind shifted and veered to the North we found ourselves motor sailing by the lee so we ended up tacking downwind. Despite being a mile or two out, there were plenty of lobster pots (or at least markers) and every 5-10 minutes we?d spot one that was close enough to pay heed to it. Late in the afternoon we sighted a largish cat boat off of Duxbury and I got some nice ?sky color? shots of this to the East as she passed our stern. We approached the marker on the end of the breakwater at the East end of the Cape Cod canal around 4:30pm and tucked into the canal channel against the flood to see our SOG immediately drop by half. Once in some less turbulent water we dropped the main and slipped quietly into Sandwich marina at a few minutes shy of 5:00pm. Despite calling ahead for a slip earlier in the day we couldn't raise anyone on the VHF or by phone, and we slid the boat into an empty ?double wide? 50ft slip and went ashore - I guess off season everyone knocks off early because the place was empty a veritable ghost town. As the sun set, so the temperature plummeted. I started dinner and we discussed our options :
A) To finish dinner, get warm and head out again around 8:30pm, catch the evening ebb and pick up a friend of mines (now vacant) mooring in Marion around 9:30pm
B) To stay put and head out on or just ahead of the ebb the following morning.
A review of our speed made good on day 1 said that option B was easily do-able with some daylight margin and despite the appeal of the evening sail we decided to stay put for the night. Lasagna, potatoes, veg, bread, fruit, hot coffee / tea and a beer - I cleaned up and we all hit the sack around 9:30pm.
I was also coming down with a cold and my voice was beginning to 'go' ...
SUNDAY
Gee it was cold during the night, I got up 3 or 4 times during the night (cold does that to me, makes me hit the head) and then I was first up at 6:30am the next morning. There was ice on the inside of the hatches from condensation, but it started to warm up nicely once I had the kettle on and then later the oven to toast some raisin bread (toasted canned raisin bread ? great ?stock? food to keep on board). We cleaned up, wiped down the moisture (condensation) off of the headliner and we headed out into the canal at 8:00am into the last of the flood. We were making about 2KN less (SOG) for the same rpm so there must have been at least 1.5KN of current but by 9:00am when we reached the Mass maritime academy at the west (south) end of the canal we were actually getting a 1.5 - 2.0KN lift from the current, which shows just how much of an impact that 5ft difference in tides does for it. In the canal it was surreal - the surface of the water was like glass and we were the only vessel around. Last weeks storm had taken most of the fall foliage off of the trees but it was still a gorgeous morning with a few brave locals out walking or fishing on either shore.
As we entered Buzzards bay it was like some 80?s video game. First the bay itself was totally flat calm and secondly the channel markers just lined up like some that game where your job is to steer the boat down a course ? almost like a runway, the photograph I took and will post later doesn't do it justice. The water stayed flat for the next hour or two and we checked off the waypoints as we headed Southwest, gradually hardening up towards a more westerly course. There was zero wind so the main stayed flaked on the boom.
At around 09:45am I looked at the fuel gauge and we discussed consumption - it looked like we would run out at our current rate of burn. Fairhaven, which we were by then approaching was our best option for fuel at this time of year but I had a full 5 gallon jerry can onboard and conditions were calm enough to refuel underway if I had needed to. I chose to back off the rpm to 2200rpm and we watched over the course of the next hour or two and the consumption dropped dramatically. Good point to note.
Conditions were calm and I was able to play with the electronics, setting the autopilot and watching how our COG varied from our actual heading and making corrections towards our waypoints - I had them plotted in the chart-plotter but to be truthful we did the trip pretty much through dead reckoning. We maybe saw 4 or 5 other boats all morning. Every now and then we would come up on a lobster pot and I?d either just adjust the AP a point or two or if I was not as diligent in my lookout or the pot was ?camouflaged? I?d drop into manual to avoid the thing (Gee I so hate those things). But on the whole the AP steered most of the morning an we sat back, drank coffee and enjoyed the ride.
By about 11:15am we had the last of the Elizabeth islands - Cuttyhunk, square off of our port beam and entered Rhode island sound. The temperature started to pick up, probably low 50's and the sun made a vain attempt to break through the clouds. At 1:30 we made the turn to starboard into the Sakonett and the sun finally broke through. the last hour as we came North up the river in familiar grounds were probably the best of the weekend, we let Norm helm which he enjoys tremendously and I even stripped down to just 4 layers of clothing (I think I maxed out at one point at 8 layers)!
Kathy (my wife) left the house around this time and headed down to Rhode island. We agreed she would find our assigned slip at the marina and tell us which side the tie up was and if she got down early enough she?d maybe catch us coming up the river from Foglands beach or something. We eventually came up on the East side of Gould island - just South of Tiverton basin around 3:00pm and Kathy and Sarah were on the little spit of a beach there, taking photos and waving. We motored up through the mooring field in the basin and under the bridge and hovered outside the marina (Brewers South yard) waiting to hear which side to tie up. I used this time to remind myself how the boat handles under power, how fast it would turn and how it would back down etc if need be. Once we had the word, we rigged for a port side, bow in tie up and gingerly approached the aisle to put a 39ft boat into a slip that was slightly shorter than that, with a boat next to us that was also sticking out into the aisle (39ft Pearson). I needn?t have worried, the new boat spins on its keel and almost turns in its own boat length. The fixed three blade prop provides plenty of thrust in forward and reverse and we ?slipped into the slip? quietly and without fuss.
We quickly put the boat to bed and all hopped in the car for the ride back to Hingham to retrieve our vehicles. Norm had to dash (Patriots game to watch that evening), but the rest of us had dinner at ?Stars? in Hingham and then left for home.
Today ? my cold ?broke? and I have no voice, a fever, the chills and hot sweats.
It?s good to have the boat home though.
I'll resize and uplaod the photos later today.
Roll on springtime
As I think you all know I?d had issues with crew beforehand due to the prior weekends storms, family commitments and sickness (more on the sickness later), but by Friday late morning we were confirmed for a Saturday morning departure with 3 on board for the 100NM trip from Hingham to Portsmouth, RI.,
SATURDAY
Three of us - Norm, Keri (my sister in law) and I, left Hingham at 10:00am on Saturday in a forecast mid 40's day with forecast 1-2ft seas and 10-15 knot NW wind. We motored out of Hingham and followed the winding but well marked channel out through Hull gut and gradually increased our hull speed until we were running the engine at around 2,600rpm and making 7 knots (SOG). There must be an issue with the paddle wheel because I was getting zero readout (or I don't know how to initialize the system) but I was getting a good SOG readout from the chartplotter. Just another thing on the albeit short to-do list.
We raised the main just South of Boston light in 8KN of wind and picked up SOG to slightly over 8 knots on a beam reach, sheltering behind the dodger and got some nice shots of the Boston skyline behind the helmsmans shoulder. Given that we were probably going to be motor sailing all day I elected to not put up the genoa and to try and keep the boat flatter and the engine lubricated.
Spirits were good and both the crew and the new boat were beginning to gel. Norm has been sailing in this area for 25 years and was a veritable source of knowledge on local history, points to look out for and the of course the time flew by. By 11.00am we had Minots light in sight and passed by this 'lighthouse with a history' at our closest point around noon.
As our course came round closer to due south the apparent wind shifted and veered to the North we found ourselves motor sailing by the lee so we ended up tacking downwind. Despite being a mile or two out, there were plenty of lobster pots (or at least markers) and every 5-10 minutes we?d spot one that was close enough to pay heed to it. Late in the afternoon we sighted a largish cat boat off of Duxbury and I got some nice ?sky color? shots of this to the East as she passed our stern. We approached the marker on the end of the breakwater at the East end of the Cape Cod canal around 4:30pm and tucked into the canal channel against the flood to see our SOG immediately drop by half. Once in some less turbulent water we dropped the main and slipped quietly into Sandwich marina at a few minutes shy of 5:00pm. Despite calling ahead for a slip earlier in the day we couldn't raise anyone on the VHF or by phone, and we slid the boat into an empty ?double wide? 50ft slip and went ashore - I guess off season everyone knocks off early because the place was empty a veritable ghost town. As the sun set, so the temperature plummeted. I started dinner and we discussed our options :
A) To finish dinner, get warm and head out again around 8:30pm, catch the evening ebb and pick up a friend of mines (now vacant) mooring in Marion around 9:30pm
B) To stay put and head out on or just ahead of the ebb the following morning.
A review of our speed made good on day 1 said that option B was easily do-able with some daylight margin and despite the appeal of the evening sail we decided to stay put for the night. Lasagna, potatoes, veg, bread, fruit, hot coffee / tea and a beer - I cleaned up and we all hit the sack around 9:30pm.
I was also coming down with a cold and my voice was beginning to 'go' ...
SUNDAY
Gee it was cold during the night, I got up 3 or 4 times during the night (cold does that to me, makes me hit the head) and then I was first up at 6:30am the next morning. There was ice on the inside of the hatches from condensation, but it started to warm up nicely once I had the kettle on and then later the oven to toast some raisin bread (toasted canned raisin bread ? great ?stock? food to keep on board). We cleaned up, wiped down the moisture (condensation) off of the headliner and we headed out into the canal at 8:00am into the last of the flood. We were making about 2KN less (SOG) for the same rpm so there must have been at least 1.5KN of current but by 9:00am when we reached the Mass maritime academy at the west (south) end of the canal we were actually getting a 1.5 - 2.0KN lift from the current, which shows just how much of an impact that 5ft difference in tides does for it. In the canal it was surreal - the surface of the water was like glass and we were the only vessel around. Last weeks storm had taken most of the fall foliage off of the trees but it was still a gorgeous morning with a few brave locals out walking or fishing on either shore.
As we entered Buzzards bay it was like some 80?s video game. First the bay itself was totally flat calm and secondly the channel markers just lined up like some that game where your job is to steer the boat down a course ? almost like a runway, the photograph I took and will post later doesn't do it justice. The water stayed flat for the next hour or two and we checked off the waypoints as we headed Southwest, gradually hardening up towards a more westerly course. There was zero wind so the main stayed flaked on the boom.
At around 09:45am I looked at the fuel gauge and we discussed consumption - it looked like we would run out at our current rate of burn. Fairhaven, which we were by then approaching was our best option for fuel at this time of year but I had a full 5 gallon jerry can onboard and conditions were calm enough to refuel underway if I had needed to. I chose to back off the rpm to 2200rpm and we watched over the course of the next hour or two and the consumption dropped dramatically. Good point to note.
Conditions were calm and I was able to play with the electronics, setting the autopilot and watching how our COG varied from our actual heading and making corrections towards our waypoints - I had them plotted in the chart-plotter but to be truthful we did the trip pretty much through dead reckoning. We maybe saw 4 or 5 other boats all morning. Every now and then we would come up on a lobster pot and I?d either just adjust the AP a point or two or if I was not as diligent in my lookout or the pot was ?camouflaged? I?d drop into manual to avoid the thing (Gee I so hate those things). But on the whole the AP steered most of the morning an we sat back, drank coffee and enjoyed the ride.
By about 11:15am we had the last of the Elizabeth islands - Cuttyhunk, square off of our port beam and entered Rhode island sound. The temperature started to pick up, probably low 50's and the sun made a vain attempt to break through the clouds. At 1:30 we made the turn to starboard into the Sakonett and the sun finally broke through. the last hour as we came North up the river in familiar grounds were probably the best of the weekend, we let Norm helm which he enjoys tremendously and I even stripped down to just 4 layers of clothing (I think I maxed out at one point at 8 layers)!
Kathy (my wife) left the house around this time and headed down to Rhode island. We agreed she would find our assigned slip at the marina and tell us which side the tie up was and if she got down early enough she?d maybe catch us coming up the river from Foglands beach or something. We eventually came up on the East side of Gould island - just South of Tiverton basin around 3:00pm and Kathy and Sarah were on the little spit of a beach there, taking photos and waving. We motored up through the mooring field in the basin and under the bridge and hovered outside the marina (Brewers South yard) waiting to hear which side to tie up. I used this time to remind myself how the boat handles under power, how fast it would turn and how it would back down etc if need be. Once we had the word, we rigged for a port side, bow in tie up and gingerly approached the aisle to put a 39ft boat into a slip that was slightly shorter than that, with a boat next to us that was also sticking out into the aisle (39ft Pearson). I needn?t have worried, the new boat spins on its keel and almost turns in its own boat length. The fixed three blade prop provides plenty of thrust in forward and reverse and we ?slipped into the slip? quietly and without fuss.
We quickly put the boat to bed and all hopped in the car for the ride back to Hingham to retrieve our vehicles. Norm had to dash (Patriots game to watch that evening), but the rest of us had dinner at ?Stars? in Hingham and then left for home.
Today ? my cold ?broke? and I have no voice, a fever, the chills and hot sweats.
It?s good to have the boat home though.
I'll resize and uplaod the photos later today.
Roll on springtime
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OK folks - here are the pics (about half of them anyway .. .. ..
Pics 1-4 : In Hingham on the Saturday morning, stripped of all her 'storm lines' from the prior weekend and close to ready to go
Pic 5 : Leaving Hewitts Cove marina in Hingham (9:30am)
Pic 6 :Looking forward towards Hull Gut
Pic 7 : Looking through Hull Gut at the Boston skyline
Pic 8 : Looking back at the Boston skyline as we sail out through Nantasket roads
Pic 9 : Looking South East towards Hull, the windmill apparently belongs to the high school.
Pic 10 : Looking back to Boston light as we exit Boston harbor.
Pic 11 : Moi at the helm, Boston in the background again
Pic 12 : Approaching Minots light
Pic 13 : Leaving Minots light
Pic 14-17 : That catboat with the awesome sky off of Duxbury around 3:45pm
Pic 18 : A fishing boat - some sort of 'dragger' I think, again nice color sky ...
Pic 19 : The 'custodian' of the Sandwich harbor or refuge (Sandwich marina)
Pic 20 : Into the canal, oil storage containers I assume for the power station
Pic 21-25 : Approaching the Sagamore bridge - note the tranquillity and some of the reflections
Pic 26 : Departing the bridge, standing on the seat looking over the dodger
Pic 27 : Crew and I think the Bourne bridge this time
Pic 28 : The railway bridge and the Mass Maritime Academy. Exiting the canal at the western (southern) end - transit time : 1 hour
Pic 29 : the 'runway' of buouys. Also note the glassy calm.
Pic 30 : Yours truly, ear to ear smile
Pic 31 : and how does this autopilot work now ?
Pic 32 : Cuttyhunk (behind the spreader)
Pic 33 : Approaching Sakonnet light and the mouth of the Sakonnet
Pic 34 : Norm at the helm - another big smile
Pic 35 : Closer view of Sakonnet light and the 'rocks that wreck'
Pic 36 : Rounded North into the river, now do I have to honor RN2, or not ?
Pic 37 : The building work going on in the town of Sakonnet
There are I think more photos in the other camera including maybe some short video clips that my wife took as we entered Tiverton basin, I'll post these later.
Pics 1-4 : In Hingham on the Saturday morning, stripped of all her 'storm lines' from the prior weekend and close to ready to go
Pic 5 : Leaving Hewitts Cove marina in Hingham (9:30am)
Pic 6 :Looking forward towards Hull Gut
Pic 7 : Looking through Hull Gut at the Boston skyline
Pic 8 : Looking back at the Boston skyline as we sail out through Nantasket roads
Pic 9 : Looking South East towards Hull, the windmill apparently belongs to the high school.
Pic 10 : Looking back to Boston light as we exit Boston harbor.
Pic 11 : Moi at the helm, Boston in the background again
Pic 12 : Approaching Minots light
Pic 13 : Leaving Minots light
Pic 14-17 : That catboat with the awesome sky off of Duxbury around 3:45pm
Pic 18 : A fishing boat - some sort of 'dragger' I think, again nice color sky ...
Pic 19 : The 'custodian' of the Sandwich harbor or refuge (Sandwich marina)
Pic 20 : Into the canal, oil storage containers I assume for the power station
Pic 21-25 : Approaching the Sagamore bridge - note the tranquillity and some of the reflections
Pic 26 : Departing the bridge, standing on the seat looking over the dodger
Pic 27 : Crew and I think the Bourne bridge this time
Pic 28 : The railway bridge and the Mass Maritime Academy. Exiting the canal at the western (southern) end - transit time : 1 hour
Pic 29 : the 'runway' of buouys. Also note the glassy calm.
Pic 30 : Yours truly, ear to ear smile
Pic 31 : and how does this autopilot work now ?
Pic 32 : Cuttyhunk (behind the spreader)
Pic 33 : Approaching Sakonnet light and the mouth of the Sakonnet
Pic 34 : Norm at the helm - another big smile
Pic 35 : Closer view of Sakonnet light and the 'rocks that wreck'
Pic 36 : Rounded North into the river, now do I have to honor RN2, or not ?
Pic 37 : The building work going on in the town of Sakonnet
There are I think more photos in the other camera including maybe some short video clips that my wife took as we entered Tiverton basin, I'll post these later.
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Mark,
Thanks for your great commentary and pictures. Sounds like a nice trip, with beautiful weather--even though you had to motor the whole time.
It looks like you may have caught the catboat Kathleen in your photos, which is featured in this month's Wooden Boat. She's awesome, with that 36' boom and huge sail. I love catboats.
Thanks for your great commentary and pictures. Sounds like a nice trip, with beautiful weather--even though you had to motor the whole time.
It looks like you may have caught the catboat Kathleen in your photos, which is featured in this month's Wooden Boat. She's awesome, with that 36' boom and huge sail. I love catboats.
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Yes, I just checked the article on Scuttlebutt and that's her all right.
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/06/kathleen/
BTW - this forum is much more useful and entertaining that the Beneteau mailing lists I have recently subscribed to .. .. ..
http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/06/kathleen/
BTW - this forum is much more useful and entertaining that the Beneteau mailing lists I have recently subscribed to .. .. ..