CT Shoreline Boaters
- Thread starter Rick D
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- Dec 16, 2003
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Keep our boat in Norwich in the summer and Portland, CT in the winter. We cruise eastern Long Island Sound and east into Rhode Island.
Bill
Bill
Finished our second season, season 3 starting this year. We are also on C dock. First year we were on the end of the T dock, Independence stayed in Florida. Last year we were in the second to last slip on the left side.
We like it there, travel from Wallingford. When we were looking for a boat we figured we would end up in Branford, as we looked around, I like having the option of going up river or being in the sound in 15 minutes. Being east is a big plus.
Marina is very well kept and staff and dockmates are wonderful.
My wife says a pool would make it perfect.
Mike
We like it there, travel from Wallingford. When we were looking for a boat we figured we would end up in Branford, as we looked around, I like having the option of going up river or being in the sound in 15 minutes. Being east is a big plus.
Marina is very well kept and staff and dockmates are wonderful.
My wife says a pool would make it perfect.
Mike
Small world, I was on the outside of John & Barbara on Sea P A.,I also grew up in Wallingford. It`s a great marina, great location, with a lot of good people,never would of left but we bought property on the river and keep the boat home. Nice arrangement but we do miss the friends, we stopped in one nite last summer for a visit, heard about Rick C. passing, too bad, a great guy going way too soon. "Red haired John" and i always enjoyed bustin` em off on each other... ask him about the guy who used to always get his boat wet. (Not me)
Alan
Alan
A lot you guys from CT river area... I need to get down there more this year. I hope to take at one ride up the CT river to Portland and have already declared my intentions with my wife that we are going to Block this year (she just rolled her eyes).
Thought about slipping this year at Haddam, but the people over at RBM have been good to me so I feel I owe it to them for at least this next year. Then maybe the year after, after, give Haddam a try.
--Rick
Thought about slipping this year at Haddam, but the people over at RBM have been good to me so I feel I owe it to them for at least this next year. Then maybe the year after, after, give Haddam a try.
--Rick
The river offers a lot of boating, advantage is you can pretty much always go boating, not much of an issue with "too rough, too foggy, too windy", lots of places to stop, swim, eat, etc. the disadvantage to being this far up (Haddam) is when to want to go out, add about 40 miles to get to the sound and back. there are a lot of marinas south that offer the best of both worlds.
We looked at Chester and Essex, and decided that Old Saybrook gave us the best of both, head up the river or 10 minutes into LI Sound. Can't go wrong either way, if the sound is a little snotty, up the river we go, dock and lunch at the Blue Oar, or into Hamburg Cove.
Mike
Mike
Oh yea...almost forgot about the fresh water...0 growth on the bottom and almost never (o.k., 5 years) need to change zincs.The only bottom painting I`ve done in seven years is straiten the water line and touch up. Aftercoolers came right apart and were really clean after not being serviced in 6 seasons.