CSR Gathering, Cape May Edition

i smell a new blog!!!!
 
No blog Ron...when I went to take a picture of the strainer....the battery in the camera was dead too....

While I was down in the ER cleaning the strainers, I noticed my Racor vacuum gauges were reading a tad high (~6 whatever the scale is). Yesterday morning, I didn't want to tease the 'gods' so I changed them at the dock here in Schooners.


I had the dinghy out for about an hour and half...it ran perfectly..... but we came on a women who fell in the water and we had to help in a rescue. We got her around to the swimplatform of another boat in the marina and she climbed up the ladder.

I'm getting ready to head home in a few hours. Need to get to work tomorrow. It looks like I'm racing a line Thunder Storms and some rain. I want to get out in the Ocean before they hit the Jersey Coast....famous last words! I've got about 1/2 ride till out the Cape May Inlet and then the LEI is about a 2.5 hour ocean ride.....inside on the ICW another 1.5 hours and I'm home. Total run is 91 sM.

Tim, Ryan, Todd, Mark....it was great to meet you guys and your families. Hope to meet again. Diner at Beach Creek was great....
 
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Dom-
Great to meet you and Linda as well! Thanks for the recommendation of Schooners, this is a much better location than Canyon Club.
I have some great pics that I will post once I get back to civilization.
Also, Jack wanted me to remind you that the Phillies are now only a half a game behind the Muts, and he's also really sorry to hear that Umeniyora (or however that is spelled:smt100) is out for the year.:smt089
Have a safe trip home!
 
festivus44 said:
....Also, Jack wanted me to remind you that the Phillies are now only a half a game behind the Muts,......!
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This would be a good time for a father/son talk about Ahead vs Behind.....:grin:
 
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Four Suns said:
How come you go in LEI instead of Barnegat Bay inlet?
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I usually just pick between the two...it's generally 1/2 dozen of one or 6 of the other...

The LEI route is a little more scenic, plus I had two other issues....They are in the process of dredging the Oyster Creek Channel (the acces channel to the Barnegat inlet) and I was running my fuel tanks low...sort of on purpose, and coming in LEI gave me the option to fuel up if I needed.

BTW...The fuel delivery guy just left about a half hour ago.....3.799/gallon delivered to the dock. I put 251 miles on this last fill (192 just this past weekend along with ~60 miles of back and forth to a local anchorage). Mostly on plane cruising...and over a 100 miles of swelling ocean. I took 231 gallons of fuel....that's 1.09 sMPG....Not bad......:thumbsup:
 
osd9 said:
OK...I'm a day late, but we made it. Ran into all kinds of issues, including some homesite things that I needed to work out.

We're in C45.....and just got back from a delicious Italian dinner at Russo's.

We left the home dock at 8:30AM. On the way out of my development, I ran over a submerged day stick. When I went to back off of the stick, I ran over a mounded shoal of sand/muck. I got on plane, and ran for about 1/8 of a mile and the port motor was climbing towards 200def F. I came down from plane, and shut down the port motor, and had the admiral go in a circle....which was easy on just one motor.....while I went down into the ER. No water leaking anywhere...that's good....but I pull the strainer on the port motor and I've never seen so much mud in a strainier. It was like making a sand castle. I knew this wasn't going to be a quickie, so I came back up and set the anchor. About 45 minutes later, both strainers were squeaky clean and I confirmed good water flow and normal temps....180deg F. I go to pull up the anchor and somethings not right. I finally get the anchor to break water, and I've somehow managed to snag an errant, none marked/ line of crab pots....15 minutes later, I got the anchor secured and washed down and I'm on my way to Wildwood. I decide to stay in the ICW to LEI instead of going out of Barnegat inlet just to keep an eye on the temps a little longer. We hit the first no wake zone off of LBI and the Green heads are swarming.....we must have killed 200 green heads. As we're just about to get on plane south of Beach Haven Yacht club, I hear some poor soul calling Sea Tow...he ran aground at the infamous ICW 116....I thinking the way my luck is going, I better keep a good eye out in the area. We break the LEI and I set two waypoints on the plotter and engage the AP.....everything is going just great and I'm making 22 knots at 2285RPMs....Sweeeeet!

I get to my slip in Schooners and start to wash down and the admiral comes up to tell me that there is water all over the carpet by the galley sink......I look under the cabinet and the P-pipe came off while she was washing some fruit. I put that back together and get out my shop vac to dry out the rug....while I'm there, I figure I better check the sumps....sure enough, the aft sump is on the blink. I pull out my spare sump box...yes I have a spare sump....and wire in the new box....Rugs are drying and the new sump is working so I go back topside and finish washing the hull.

I just finished checking everything and everything is working.....again.

See you guys tomorrow morning..
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Dom,
That's some eventfull day you had there. I'm glad to hear that you've got everything under the control. :thumbsup:
 
gerryb said:
My 8 year old daughter and I are going to be there Friday thru Sunday morning this weekend. (Wife is taking our older daughter back to Univ of Pitt so it's just the two of us. The ever wise and cautious admiral has some 'concern' about just the two of us going on the run from great Egg Inlet down to Cape May inlet alone.) We'll be near the fuel dock with the smaller boats but look forward to meeting some of you this weekend.
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Gerry....did you make it down? We never got to meet!
 
osd9 said:
Gerry....did you make it down? We never got to meet!
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We did make it down but only for one night. And the two eight year old girls who made the trip with me wanted to go to the boardwalk all day long. They really had fun so I'm not complaining. I did a short walk and saw your boat but no one was aboard. Say Festivus and Sea Drive as I was pulling out yesterday afternoon and went over to say hello, but again, no one home! Did see about six cans of sun tan spray on the aft transom on Festivus and almost took a picture but the fuel dock guy was calling. $150 later and I was back on the outside heading home. Sorry I didn't get a chance to meet everyone this go around! Next year we'll be back.

For the record, Schooner has more to offer than Canyon Club if traveling with young kids.

Wish I had an extra 10' for the 2-4 foot waves we had each way...not fun. The TV mount gave-up somewhere along the way back. And the sirius receiver is now acting up as well so I bought one used on ebay earlier today for $35. But the engines ran flawlessly and we made it back safe.

I may start another thread on what others do when traveling alone with small kids - no other adult available should anything go wrong.
 
Gerryb, sorry we missed you... actually, all the cans you saw were bug spray to ward off those green head flies. Damn, those things hurt!

Searaymark- nice to meet you!

I'm too lazy to post all the pics, but feel free to browse at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tarmand/
I think the one of Ryan slaloming through the reeds is calendar-worthy!
 
Hey Guys, It was nice to meet you all and I hope you enjoyed Schooners enough to return sometime soon. I wish I had more time to hang out on Sunday but the wife is usually in a hurry to get home for some reason.:huh:I had a chance to chat with Dom for a little bit and we probably could have gone on for hours talking about Sea Ray's if I had more time. Hope to see you guys again. Mark
 
GerryB, I was looking for you on Saturday but couldn't remember the name of your boat. What dock were you on? Sorry I missed you. Mark
 
Everyone,

We had a GREAT time!

It was nice to meet you Dom, Mark and GerryB, sorry we did not get to catch up...

Tim - Thanks for everything!

Schooners - was a good call, thanks to all who chimed in!
 
We did make it to the Canyon Club on Aug. 9 and 10. It wasn't bad for us because a good friend of mine and his wife came to visit and shoufered us around and into town. We got to go to the Lobster House, I got the 3 lb der and could not eat it all. Then, we were takin to the "Ugly Mug". That was nice... They had a band called "The Loop" and we were doing the "Delmarva Loop" trip. Sweet trip!
Thanks for the advice.
Lee
 
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