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Comment by Gary B on August 10, 2009 at 4:03pm

z- you are right, if all goes well! If so, you're welcome to come and share the deck! :) Anyone else too - we'll make it a party! If Dalton et al are interested, maybe a raft-up? It can be a busy place, and I'm not sure of what is necessary to have your boat there. Dalton - do you have to have a Newport moorage or anything? I'm a member of Sail Newport, so that might be helpful.

Comment by zeehag on August 10, 2009 at 3:05pm

gary--by next yr, ye should be able to take your new boat there!!!--ye think??!!!!!!
would be awesome!!!!

Comment by Gary B on August 10, 2009 at 1:41pm

Nice way to spend a couple of weekends - I think I'm going to have to schedule those dates for next year - need crew? :) I spent the last week going through ancient family stuff to clean out a storage unit. But this weekend I took a whirlwind tour of the Olympic Peninsula.

Comment by zeehag on August 8, 2009 at 10:26am

dalton--sounds like THE place to be!!!!! gooood stuff--have fun and fair winds....

Comment by Dalton Williams on August 8, 2009 at 9:54am

A beautiful Saturday morniing here in Newport, RI. I hope everyone has a great weekend! I am going to listne to some Jazz at the Jazz Festival and do some boat work installin some new equipment.

Last weekend here was the Newport Folk Festival and I got to see Pete Seegart (of Peter Paul & Mary), Judy Collins and Joan Biaez! What a great treat all while sitting in Quietly's cockpit anchored just off the stage. What a weekend!!!

Comment by Capt Tom on July 7, 2009 at 9:09pm

On my trip down from Boston last Fall I anchored in more than a few places and found them most welcoming (e.g. Rhone River area, etc.) I'd have to check my log book for details such as Lat/Lon, but I even dropped the hook off Pawtuxet (?) and went ashore with Olivia.

Now I was NOT staying multiple nights so that may be a different matter.

Hope it goes well, and I will be returning to the area next summer if I don'r head to the Bahamas .

Capt Tom Blue

Comment by zeehag on July 7, 2009 at 1:50pm

lightning storms are here lol....is unwise to sail in them without a larger boat as a budddy--keep them close to you at all times---remember --you are the only lightning rod in town, and the stuff has to come down somewhere-----go figger----

Comment by Gary B on July 6, 2009 at 8:07am

Dalton,
My boat is on the hard in Dighton MA (up the river from Fall River, in the NE corner of the Bay), and I would be very happy to get together on weekends (I'm still working during the week and it's a bit far to try to do Newport after work.) In fact, I'll buy you a beer and you can tell me about the islands - I have it in my plan to sail there in a few years. Things on my agenda include checking out the big used boat parts store in the Wickford/Cranston area (don't know the name or exact location yet), another is to visit the Jamestown Distributors store - I think it is in Bristol. I have an F250 so if there's anything big you want to haul around, give me a holler as well. I can probably even loan you a blanket if you need one!

Comment by Dalton Williams on July 5, 2009 at 8:36am

Those of you who know me will be amused to know that Quietly and I sailed in to Newport Rhode Island at 10:30 last evening (July 3rd) from the Caribbean.

It has been 7 years (Nov 2002) since Quietly and I have been in the US waters! It seam surreal and I admit a HUGE culture shock after living in the Islands for so long.

Among other things I have completely forgotten that you must have a car! I have become so accustomed to excelent local busses that run every five minutes that I was shocked to learn I would have to take a taxi to go to Wall*Mart to purchase some long pants and a blanket.

I can't believe it is this cold! I actually had to pull my sleeping bag out because I was freezing! No more sleeping under a single sheet with 75 degree evenings!

I wanted to do something different for this hurricane season that yet another summer in Grenada & Trinidad. So sailing New England came to mind and with the help of Britt on Sea Otter and new friends from Find A Crew I headed north. I will spend the summer sailing the south half of Maine and working my way to Mass then back to RI and Conn and a stop at the West 79 St Marina in New York City on my way to Annapolis and then Washington DC to anchor out behind the Jefferson Memorial in October. Then finally I will and then head south again come fall to either the Caribbean or perhaps the Bahamas where I have never been.

Anyone around the Newport Rhode Island area who would like to get together to show this nautical gypsy around?

Best wishes to all!!!
Dalton
SV Quietly

Comment by Capt. Adam on July 5, 2009 at 2:27am

Anybody in the Seattle area!?

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