Flew into Boston... Wow thats a lot of boats

[ocgrant]

So flew into Boston tonight and landing at Logan I look out the window and I have never seen a mooring field that big in my life.... How do you know where you parked your boat?

 

[Henry Boyd]

So flew into Boston tonight and landing at Logan I look out the window and I have never seen a mooring field that big in my life.... How do you know where you parked your boat?
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That’s Salem Harbor and that’s about normal, to the East is Marblehead Harbor that is more crowded. Marblehead is a big sailing town, and one of the local bragging points is to be able to say you have traversed the harbor under sail.

 

[Carpediem44DB]

So flew into Boston tonight and landing at Logan I look out the window and I have never seen a mooring field that big in my life.... How do you know where you parked your boat?
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to find your boat you leave an I pad on board and then use your I phone "find my IPad" app
Carpe Diem

 

[Henry Boyd]

In this part of New England most of the moorings are privately owned and the locations assigned by the local harbormasters. So your mooring is in the same spot every year.

Most of these will have the top part of the ground tackle removed and replaced with a winter “ball” that’s usually a 6” pvc foam filled pipe with a threaded rod through it. If it gets surrounded by ice the pipe will pull out of the ice before it shifts the anchor. I have two 1600 pound granite blocks on our mooring at the house. I lost one early on that was carried away by an out going ice floe before I learned the pipe trick.

 

[ocgrant]

In this part of New England most of the moorings are privately owned and the locations assigned by the local harbormasters. So your mooring is in the same spot every year.

Most of these will have the top part of the ground tackle removed and replaced with a winter “ball” that’s usually a 6” pvc foam filled pipe with a threaded rod through it. If it gets surrounded by ice the pipe will pull out of the ice before it shifts the anchor. I have two 1600 pound granite blocks on our mooring at the house. I lost one early on that was carried away by an out going ice floe before I learned the pipe trick.

Henry,
Wow..thats crazy. so how do you get out to your boat? Is there a shore boat service that takes you out?

 

[HawkX66]

I love Salem Harbor/Marblehead Neck. All except for having to look at the plant... The Rockmore for lunch is always great.

 

[Henry Boyd]

Henry,
Wow..thats crazy. so how do you get out to your boat? Is there a shore boat service that takes you out?

Yacht clubs and some municipalities run water taxi services, but mostly personal dinghies. If you don’t need to take it with you (like with our 280) you just leave it on the mooring. Not having to deal with getting all the people and stuff from shore to boat and back again was one of best changes we made when we moved to the marina.

 

[JimG]

How do you know where you parked your boat?

I guess you would see allot of the same boats and eventually develop a roadway to your boat based on familiarity... but I see what you're saying.
Thanks for sharing!