[C320-list] ICW & Great Loop questions

[Robert Seastream]

Please do email your logs, and thanks.  There's likely much I can  
learn from them.
My email address follows:
robert.seastream at comcast.net
Just in case the entire association isn't as interested as myself.

Regards,

Bob Seastream
Intuition # 906


On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:59 PM, CDickhut2 at aol.com wrote:

> Bob -
> Been there done that, have the T shirt. In 2005 -2006 we went from   
> Buffalo,
> NY to Charleston, SC via the ICW. I read the article in Sail  
> magazine  & it
> brought back some GREAT memories. Several of the places mentioned  
> we  visited &
> for the most pat I agree with the article. Why go inside and not   
> outside? If
> you want to get to Florida in a hurry, go outside or better yet  
> take  I-95.I
> With the ICW it is the journey not the destination. Places to see,  
> towns  to
> visit, great anchorages and most of all the people you meet. Not  
> only fellow
> sailors but local people were some of the kindest folks we have ever  
> met. We
> were warmly greeted wherever we went. Still keep in touch with many  
> of them. I
> would be happy to e-mail you the logs of our trip if you are  
> interested. Aside
> from cruising guides and chart books I can suggest two books which  
> make
> interesting reading.
> 1. "Honey, Lets get a Boat" A Cruising Adventure of America's Great  
> Loop,  by
> Ron & Eva Stob
> 2. "A Year in Paradise: How We Lived Our Dream" by Stephen Wright   
> Watterson
>
> The ICW trip was my dream.
>
> Capt Chuck Dickhut
> USCG Master
> S/V Obsession
> Catalina 320 #114
>
>
>
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