Drive time to the Boat
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Driving time
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It takes me about 65 minutes to drive from my home in Fairfax Station VA to my marina in Annapolis MD --- mostly highways so I can usually make pretty good time. If I attempt the trip during high-traffic times the trip takes about 90 minutes.
It takes me about 65 minutes to drive from my home in Fairfax Station VA to my marina in Annapolis MD --- mostly highways so I can usually make pretty good time. If I attempt the trip during high-traffic times the trip takes about 90 minutes.
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Its a five minute walk from my house and once there, its less than ten minutes to leave the dock.
FYI-Its my habit to always leave the boat in instant readyness to leave the dock.
Many years back, the ability to get underway quickly saved me thousands of dollars in damage, from a boat on fire next to us.
Rit
FYI-Its my habit to always leave the boat in instant readyness to leave the dock.
Many years back, the ability to get underway quickly saved me thousands of dollars in damage, from a boat on fire next to us.
Rit
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Time To Get Underway
I never really timed myself as I usually take my time and savor the ritual of getting Sirius ready. I guess I could do it in 5-10 minutes if in extremis.
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A long way from home
4.5 hour ride. Worth the drive. Looks like I am of the 5% - 3 to 5 hour group
The last couple of hours are very rural with few cars, (so few, the drivers wave as they pass). The area is so seemly empty of humanity that it made my visiting Bergen County, NJ sister and her husband nervous, fearing that they had come to the end of the Earth. It is not quite the end of the Earth, but you can certainly see it by looking north.
Would I like to be closer? Sure! But I like to sail at the ends of the Earth, not live there.
Sail on
John Danicic
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The last couple of hours are very rural with few cars, (so few, the drivers wave as they pass). The area is so seemly empty of humanity that it made my visiting Bergen County, NJ sister and her husband nervous, fearing that they had come to the end of the Earth. It is not quite the end of the Earth, but you can certainly see it by looking north.
Would I like to be closer? Sure! But I like to sail at the ends of the Earth, not live there.
Sail on
John Danicic
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It Depends Where We Start
If we are at our cottage on Protection Island in Nanaimo, B.C., it takes 10 minutes to walk across the island to the passenger ferry, a 10 minute ferry ride to town, and a 15 min drive to the boat.
If we start from our home in Ashland, Oregon, it takes five hours to drive to our son's home in Portland where we spend the night. The next day takes about 12 hours (including a two-hour ferry trip across the Strait of Georgia).
The time to take off is wholly dependent upon how much stuff we need to lug down to the boat - so it ranges from a few minutes for a day sail to a couple of days for a trip of a few months.
Before moving the boat to Canada, we were a three hour beautiful drive to the boat on the Oregon Coast.
If we start from our home in Ashland, Oregon, it takes five hours to drive to our son's home in Portland where we spend the night. The next day takes about 12 hours (including a two-hour ferry trip across the Strait of Georgia).
The time to take off is wholly dependent upon how much stuff we need to lug down to the boat - so it ranges from a few minutes for a day sail to a couple of days for a trip of a few months.
Before moving the boat to Canada, we were a three hour beautiful drive to the boat on the Oregon Coast.
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Ashland OR and Ladysmith, BC
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Getting Underway - Checklist
We have a checklist for getting underway and another for leaving the boat. I would guess that typically we take about 10 minutes to get underway. Our current drive is about 25 minutes, much better than our old drive of 2+ hours!
Rich Abato
Nordic Tug 34 Tanuki
Previous Owner Of CD36 Mahalo #163
Southern Maine
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Poll
Well, I am a bit curious to ask, so 1100 people have viewed this thread with 51 post (now 52) and only 81 people have voted in the Poll. Just in case you dont realize it, you need to click on my original post and the poll should be right there at the top.
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Re: Poll
Because the "poll" is no longer working. And no, I can't fix it.barfwinkle wrote:Well, I am a bit curious to ask, so 1100 people have viewed this thread with 51 post (now 52) and only 81 people have voted in the Poll. Just in case you dont realize it, you need to click on my original post and the poll should be right there at the top.
Have a great day.
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Opps
I guess I only gave it 7 days or so huh! Sorry.....
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Live on boat and we can be off of the dock in about 15 minutes. Now if we want to sail the typhoon it is a 15 minute walk to the other side of the marina. but can be off the dock in no time at all.
Kevin
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Raven in Noank is a very consistent 50 minuets from the house. She is sitting in her winter slip right now and I will be traveling down to check on her tomorrow.
We kept her in Mattapoistte this summer and that was a 1 Hr and 50 Min drive. We thought we would be doing a bunch of week long trips. We did manage a few but we got a late start to the season and stuff just seemed to get in the way. I think we are going to try again next year. That distance pretty much eliminates days sails and even weekends.
I envy everyone of you that can look out from your home to see your boat, Steve.
We kept her in Mattapoistte this summer and that was a 1 Hr and 50 Min drive. We thought we would be doing a bunch of week long trips. We did manage a few but we got a late start to the season and stuff just seemed to get in the way. I think we are going to try again next year. That distance pretty much eliminates days sails and even weekends.
I envy everyone of you that can look out from your home to see your boat, Steve.
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