Northwest Boating Information Resources

thunderbird1

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I recall a post from SRO days describing a message board focused on northwest boating. Todd? Do any of you Northwest folks know of local online resources which supplement CSR? I'm particularly interested in resources focused on Oregon and Washington boating.
 
I've got some on another puter. I'll see if I can dig those up tomorrow and post them here!
 
Thunderbird, you may want to PM todd as well. There was a NW - SRO board if I am not mistaken but I can not seem to locate it now. Good luck :thumbsup:

Wesley
 
Thanks Sundancer, I looked all over for nwsearayowners.com and could not find it. :thumbsup:

Todd, the site says it is dry dock. :huh: PM if you get a chance

Wesley
 
FB:

No problem! Always here to help a bro boater!
 
Yep. I have been considering posting a forum like we have here. I own www.nwsearayowners.com but like Wesley said we're in Drydock. If I know there's more interest we may launch it this spring. So Sundancer is right mine if one of the "totally worthless ones" :smt001 But let me get on it. Otherwise for now T-Bird or Sundancer let me know where you want to go up here I have some great secret and fun places. Or come on up let's Rendezvous
 
Todd:

If we head over that direction, I'll definitely let you know. You've got some great pictures of places that are beautiful and remote. That's MY kind of boating. I'll just need some map coordinates or directions and some advice about mooring and anchoring with a big tidal swing! We're so lucky to have such great boating in the NW and yet, I've only experienced a tiny percentage! Worse yet, none of my boats have ever been in salt water! :smt009
 
Sundancer said:
Todd:

If we head over that direction, I'll definitely let you know. You've got some great pictures of places that are beautiful and remote. That's MY kind of boating. I'll just need some map coordinates or directions and some advice about mooring and anchoring with a big tidal swing! We're so lucky to have such great boating in the NW and yet, I've only experienced a tiny percentage! Worse yet, none of my boats have ever been in salt water! :smt009
Please do let us know. I met Dan Budd "Budd's Outlet " you may remember from SRO up at Lopez island. He and his wife and I think Brother in law and wife were great. It's fun to meeto fellow SeaRay Owners, swap stories and special spots.
 
Sundancer said:
Todd:

If we head over that direction, I'll definitely let you know. You've got some great pictures of places that are beautiful and remote. That's MY kind of boating. I'll just need some map coordinates or directions and some advice about mooring and anchoring with a big tidal swing! We're so lucky to have such great boating in the NW and yet, I've only experienced a tiny percentage! Worse yet, none of my boats have ever been in salt water! :smt009

We used to tow our 310 Sea Ray from Couer d'alene to Edmonds, sling the boat in and head North. Edmonds had space to park the truck and trailer and at the end of the trip they hauled the boat back out and placed it on the trailer. Moorage is not a problem if you plan ahead. We navigated with a Marine Atlas and placemats (not recommended). In those days we didn't have a dink so we didn't anchor much. Now we rarely go to a dock. We towed over from Couer d'alene for several years then when we got our first 40 footer we moved the boat over for the winter and decided to leave the boat in Seattle and haven't looked back yet. We live in Yakima so it was an easy transition to make. North Idaho is a nice place to boat but Puget Sound and points north are infinitely better.

Dan
 
Sundancer said:
Todd:

If we head over that direction, I'll definitely let you know. You've got some great pictures of places that are beautiful and remote. That's MY kind of boating. I'll just need some map coordinates or directions and some advice about mooring and anchoring with a big tidal swing! :smt009

In summer of 2005 we spent 6 days in the San Juans, being shown around by Jim Hutchins. He has spent years in the area and knows it like the back of his hand. I realized I could not navigate without a chartplotter if I did not have him to follow. Too many islands that all took the same, too much workload not knowing the area.

Anyway, we had only his local knowledge, neither of us had very good charts. We went everywhere unscheduled, and tied up to something, a dock, mooring bouy, whatever, every day. We never had any concern for tides; we were never anchored out. We were never in what I would consider shallow water.

I also expected there to be places where we would have to contend with tidal currents, but I never detected any. We never ran below 30 MPH though, he slowed down to about 32 normally so I could keep up with his 280. The only exception to this was running into the wind, crossing from the north end of San Juan Island over towards Victoria. In that stretch we did have to slow down for rough water.

We did have to stop or alter route for fog twice, we did not have radar.

I learned I would not go back without a good chartplotter. I would like to have radar, but I have no radar arch on my 270. For the hour or two we lost due to fog, any significant expense for radar probably won''t pay. I also made it a point to try and stay out of the ferry lanes, or at least stay out of their way. I have had the engine die in my 270, I would not want that to happen with a ferry bearing down.
 

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