I asked a friend who has done the trip a number of times and he agrees with
Tim. If your inflatable is on deck or davits and ready to go - equipped with a
ditch bag and radio - plus your personal locator - and a good radio with a high
antenna you should be OK. I would assume you have a good way to launch it. And
NO SCHEDULE! Have wiggle room so you don't find yourselves out there like the
two idiots who had to be rescued a couple of weeks ago when the weather
clobbered them.
All the safety stuff - jack lines, harnesses etc. is necessary... You will be
out there at night in traffic! When we did the NY to Chesapeake trip on his
boat we didn't worry about fuel (motorsailer with two huge tanks) but you
should have enough to last the longest leg you might have to motor plus a good
reserve - we motorsailed almost all the way from Staten Island to Cape May.
All of this assumes you have a C&C which is in good repair.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Goodyear via CnC-List
To: Della Barba, Joe ; cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: Stus-List Appropriate safety gear for a trip to Boston
Personally, I would not consider a raft for that trip - if you are able to
plan based on weather rather than a fixed schedule, know and have maintained
your boat well and the dinghy is inflated, not rolled up in a locker somewhere.
A stop in NYC would mean coastal sailing all the way.
+1 on jacklines, harnesses and life jackets. You may also want to check
sleeping arrangements (lee cloths) if you don't sail overnight often and extra
diesel in case of no wind. I made that trip a few years back (not my boat) and
we entered Great Salt Pond with the dinghy strapped to the quarter as a tug...
Tim
Mojito
C&C 35-3
Branford, CT
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
An EPIRB is nice, but a PLB is certainly good enough to get help.
As for the raft – if it were a race you would need one. The first time I
did that route our “raft” was a Dyer dinghy on the cabin top. This was in 1976
when safety was not really a thing like it is now. We would have been totally
f’d if the boat had sunk in anything but flat calm.
I would think through the following:
1. Fire
2. Extreme weather
3. Getting run over
4. Structural failure/massive leak
Think about how well the dinghy would do for these problems. I think #2 is
not real likely, but 1 and 3 would not be good unless the dinghy was ready to
go.
Joe Della Barba
Coquina
From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Daniel
Sheer via CnC-List
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 2:44 PM
To: Cnc-list CNC Boat Owners
Subject: Stus-List Appropriate safety gear for a trip to Boston
Advice please. I'm taklng Pegathy from Baltimore to Boston and back in
June. I've got an 8 foot inflatable, a gps based plb (McMurdo FastFind 210),
and a new VHF with an AIS receiver. The only offshore planned is from Cape May
to Block Island. Everything else will be close to shore. Do I need to bother
with a life raft and/or a real epirb?
Dan Sheer
Pegathy LF 38
Rock Creek off the Patapsco
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