Cape Cod Boaters

[bushway9172]

Getting anxious to get back on the boat! Hoping for an early April launch. Any Cape Cod (or Boston) boaters planning any trips?

We haven't ventured too far with Legal Limit yet, but would love to get to Newport and Mystic at some point. We're not too sure if this would be too big of a trip for us, depending on conditions of course. Our farthest trip so far has been Nantucket (30 miles each way), but would love to venture farther (maybe even up to Boston at some point). :thumbsup:

 

[JV II]

See my post in Northeast forum. Going to Nantucket via the Vineyard in August. Hope to do 2 big trips this year. Not sure of the 2nd. Maybe MV a second time. Definitely Newburyport.

 

[bushway9172]

Okay thanks!

 

[Greg]

Well, I'm not a Cape Cod or Boston Boater, But I am planning a trip up that way this summer. We will be leaving from our home port on the Hudson River and making our way out through Long Island sound, up through the canal into Cape Cod Bay and hopefully to Boston. I haven't mapped out all of my stops yet, but maybe Newport, Battleship Cove, P-Town, Plymouth, Boston, Greenport. We did Mystic, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Block Island a couple years ago, so we will probably skip those.

Right now it looks like we'll be leaving on August 14th for two weeks.

 

[Henry Boyd]

See my post in Northeast forum. Going to Nantucket via the Vineyard in August. Hope to do 2 big trips this year. Not sure of the 2nd. Maybe MV a second time. Definitely Newburyport.

Newburyport is a great town with just about everything within walking distance of the various marinas.

There is one caution. The navigable channel in the mouth of the Merrimack River is narrow, coming or going in the wrong state of tide ranges from scary to outright dangerous. The Coast Guard has been known to close the mouth of the river in bad conditions. Even in good conditions there are always lots of idiots anchored in the channel fishing at the river mouth.

If you haven't made the trip before, the best time to arrive and depart is at, and just after low tide. At this time you will only have the river current to deal with and not a rapidly rising, or falling, tide.

Henry

 

[JV II]

Newburyport is a great town with just about everything within walking distance of the various marinas.

There is one caution. The navigable channel in the mouth of the Merrimack River is narrow, coming or going in the wrong state of tide ranges from scary to outright dangerous. The Coast Guard has been known to close the mouth of the river in bad conditions. Even in good conditions there are always lots of idiots anchored in the channel fishing at the river mouth.

If you haven't made the trip before, the best time to arrive and depart is at, and just after low tide. At this time you will only have the river current to deal with and not a rapidly rising, or falling, tide.

Henry

Thanks Henry. I'm going to have to carefully plan that trip. I did not know all that.

 

[wetpaint]

Here is my plans for the spring

http://cruisingwetpaint.blogspot.com/2009/12/spring-2010-trip.html

 

[charlg]

I'll be taking the trip from Boston to the Cape in August. We are staying for two weeks (on land), but I need to find a slip, or mooring, for the two weeks. I am hoping to get to the Vineyard this year while we're there.

 

[JV II]

Here is my plans for the spring

http://cruisingwetpaint.blogspot.com/2009/12/spring-2010-trip.html

What kind of advance reservation are needed for Block Island? Can one get a mooring there with a month's notice? Can you just arrive and hook? Any slips?

 

[Ididntdoit]

What kind of advance reservation are needed for Block Island? Can one get a mooring there with a month's notice? Can you just arrive and hook? Any slips?

Moorings are first come first served an fill up early - the anchorage is huge (most people anchor) be careful when it blows as many people do not get a good hook/let out enough scope and drag.
Marinas have been a little easier to get into on short notice in this economy - theres Paynes (lowest price - fixed docks) the boat basin and Champlins (very busy, with rafting on busy weekends) - be careful of minimum stays on holiday weekends too
Let us know when your thinking of going - maybe we can all meet there and raft up

 

[wetpaint]

I love Block Island in early June......Very quiet and no lines for the mudslides!