Re: [Cal_Boats] replacing antenna wiring (Chris) Powerboaters

In a message dated 12/7/2010 2:31:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, cc… [at] lsnm.org writes: <Now it's a bit impolite to take up that much space on busy weekends.> We once ran out of fuel coming in from Annapolis Race Week which is over the Labor Day Weekend and had to sail around Annapolis Harbor for about an hour waiting for a spot to open up at a fuel dock. All the stinkpotters with zillion gallon tanks were fueling up for the weekend and the fuel dock was not anxious to let us cut in to fill up the 19 gallon tank on our CS 30 and possibly tie up the dock trying to restart the diesel. This is one of the busiest weekends of the year and the mooring field was completely full, the surrounding buildings created all manner of wind shifts and the powerboaters, water taxis were all scooting around and not really thinking about right of way in the harbor so needless to say it was a pretty stressful hour of quick tacks and layline practice to miss moored boats LOL. Paul

I sail in South San Francisco Bay which is about 10 miles wide and I am sometimes the only boat sailing in it. In fact, I am usually the only boat sailing in it. Most people want to just b-line to the busy part of the bay just as I did for many years until I realized I was leaving the good area for the bad. We don't even get commercial traffic down here. The power boats are fishing boats and just sit in one spot for the most part serving as a useful marker of the less windy spots. Allen On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:44 AM, <pw… [at] aol.com> wrote: > > > In a message dated 12/7/2010 2:31:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, > cc… [at] lsnm.org writes: > > <Now it's a bit impolite to take up that much space on busy weekends.> > > We once ran out of fuel coming in from Annapolis Race Week which is over > the Labor Day Weekend and had to sail around Annapolis Harbor for about an > hour waiting for a spot to open up at a fuel dock. All the stinkpotters > with zillion gallon tanks were fueling up for the weekend and the fuel dock > was not anxious to let us cut in to fill up the 19 gallon tank on our CS 30 > and possibly tie up the dock trying to restart the diesel. This is one of > the busiest weekends of the year and the mooring field was completely full, > the surrounding buildings created all manner of wind shifts and the > powerboaters, water taxis were all scooting around and not really thinking > about right of way in the harbor so needless to say it was a pretty > stressful hour of quick tacks and layline practice to miss moored boats LOL. > > Paul > > >

On 12/7/2010 2:44 PM, pw… [at] aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 12/7/2010 2:31:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, > cc… [at] lsnm.org writes: > > <Now it's a bit impolite to take up that much space on busy weekends.> > > We once ran out of fuel coming in from Annapolis Race Week which is > over the Labor Day Weekend and had to sail around Annapolis Harbor for > about an hour waiting for a spot to open up at a fuel dock. All the > stinkpotters with zillion gallon tanks were fueling up for the weekend > and the fuel dock was not anxious to let us cut in to fill up the 19 > gallon tank on our CS 30 and possibly tie up the dock trying to > restart the diesel. This is one of the busiest weekends of the year > and the mooring field was completely full, the surrounding buildings > created all manner of wind shifts and the powerboaters, water taxis > were all scooting around and not really thinking about right of way in > the harbor so needless to say it was a pretty stressful hour of quick > tacks and layline practice to miss moored boats LOL. You should have anchored and got on the VHF and asked a powerboater to go over and buy you a jug of diesel fuel. It gives them something useful to do. Chris Campbell