What's On Your Boating Bucket List?

I want to take a 30-40 trimaran rag bote singlehanded around Cape Horn and then up to Alaska. Time is running out on that one, so maybe next lifetime.
 
I want to pull into Key West on my own boat some day along with the Tween Waters Inn marina on Captiva and Harbor Town on Hilton Head Island
 
ANYTIME said:
I want to live to be 150 years old. So far, I am on track. :smt001

I want to own a Nordhavn 43 ft trawler and do some blue water travelling in convoy with others of a like mind. It is too far for a solo trip in a motor boat :smt101. I am investing $5.00/week towards this goal (in lottery tickets :smt043).
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Nordhavn 43 or 47.... you betcha:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
yeah I was going to say gary's boat, but its all dirty and nothing works on it.
 
I have a series of "One Month in the XYZ" trips I want to do.

1. Great Lakes
2. Bahamas
3. Gulf Coast
4. and... Greece

I wouldn't mind doing the 65 Nordhavn thing either (shut up Skip). I'm also not against going back to sailing and getting out of this stinkboat club. Too much mechanical crap to break here. (ha ha ha ha)
 
1. Trailer the boat to LA and run to Catalina
2. Go from Anacortes, WA to Sitka, AK via the Inside Passage
3. Own a 340DA
4. Make it to one of The East Coast Rendezvouseseses
5. Show off the clean waters of my neck O' the waters to any of you who have never seen it
 
Gary got me thinking I ought to expand my list to Europe. How about a European Loop, say starting on the Rhine River somewhere in Holland, go up to the Rhine-Danube Canal, and down the Danube to the Black Sea. Along the way we'll visit Dusseldorf, Cologne, Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade, perhaps with side trips to cities such as Strasbourg and Frankfurt. Once we reach the Black Sea, we can sail (in the figurative sense, it sounds better than using 'diesel' as a verb) up to the Sea of Azov to the mouth of the Don River at Rostov, perhaps with a visit to some of the interesting towns along the Black Sea coast as we go.

Then it's up the Don to the canal that connects to the mighty Volga River at Volgograd. If the Rhine is Europe's Mississippi River, the Volga is Europe's Amazon. Up the Volga through the heart of Russia. North of Moscow, we'll move into a chain of canals and lakes that take us to the Baltic Sea at St. Petersburg.

The Baltic gives us a great many opportunities to explore, including ports and cities in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Germany. We can either take the Kiel Canal to the North Sea, or the longer route through the Kattegat and visit Norway as well.

Then we'll enter the excellent canal system of Holland and enjoy that country's hospitality as we meander back to the Rhine above Rotterdam.

I don't think we'll ship a boat over from the U.S., but rather will buy something appropriate there, and sell it when we're done maybe a couple of years later. Of course we'll have a couple of bikes and a scooter aboard for exploring and shopping on land, and for exploring further afield we can rent a car or go by train.
 
I finally had a chance to see the movie....saw it on the boat this weekend. (the weather was crap again) I'm truely blessed (borrowed from Skip) to be a 24 yr survivor....makes me think that I already am living my bucket list!
 
When i was in the navy, I was on the USS NIMITZ, Aircraft carrier. It is a massive ship. I worked topside launching jets off the flight deck. I would love to learn how to sail and take about a 3 month sail boat trip, around the gulf maybe into the atlantic
 
330DA said:
Stray Cat,
The decommisioned USS Yorktown is berthed in Charleston, SC. There is a great tour and, yes, you can sit in the Captain's chair. There is also a large USCG cutter and a submarine.
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We moved here 5 years ago and other than getting invited into the C-17 simulator at the CHS Air Force base on 3 occassions, the Yorktown tour was the most fun we have had in that type of exploration. Just this past Saturday, we played tour guide for a few of my wife's friends from up North and went along side of the Yorktown. Each time we see it, espicially from the water, it is still just as impressive as the first time we laid eyes on it.

I highly reccomend visiting the Yorktown.
 
Some include Sea Rays, others do not:

1) Own a 300SLX with twin engines.
2) As we boat on inland lakes, own a houseboat so I can live on the water on my weekends and go out on the runabout during the days.
3) Take my jet ski somewhere to jump surf in the ocean.
4) Take an extended boat trip on the ocean in someone elses/rented cruiser-type boat, as I have too big of a family to comfortably fit even in some of the larger Sea Rays so I will most likely never buy anything other than day boats.
5) Wakeboard. Yes, I've tried a bunch of times and can water ski very well, but I haven't gotten the hang of this just yet. Getting close though.
 
Be able to put a full tank in the boat for less than my monthly home mortgage. I have about 24 yrs left on the mortgage so maybe then :huh: SB
 
Take my boat out and anchor it in those beautiful turquoise waters of the Carribean. Then float around with a drink in my hand and NOT be afraid of sharks.
 
Thinking I would join you guys on the new Grand Banks Owners Club site. The wife and I both love the looks of those boats. Once that is accomplished we will set out and not look back till we run out of vertical stabilization.

Here are some more flat top floating musems the Midway and the Intrepid.

The Midway is home ported in San Diego and the Intrepid is in New York.
http://www.midway.org/site/pp.asp?c=eeIGLLOrGpF&b=3038957
http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/intrepidmuseum/index.php?MERCURYSID=51ee9e622c2282b7a9fca5f142aec252
 
Wow, this is a great thread!

I'd like a 34-55' ocean-going live-aboard boat, so I can cruise from my house in the Florida Keys to all those islands in the Caribbean (from the far western ones to the far eastern/southern ones). Get out to the Cayman Islands and do some diving, maybe even Belize? End up looking like Captain Ron!

I guess I don't know about this "great loop"? Is it up thru Lake Champlain, into the Richeleau, out the St. Lawrence, down the Seacoast to NYC? It sounds like fun, so does the trip down the atlantic seacoast, visiting all the sights along the way, DC, Newport News, Hilton Head, etc.
 
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