| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 404.1 | Robinhood | SWSNOD::RPGDOC | Dennis the Menace | Thu Sep 11 1986 17:54 | 14 |
| RE: "Robinhood Marine"
It's been more than a decade since I've sailed out of there, so
I don't know how their facilities have expanded.
They are located in a tidal estuary up the Sasanoa River off the
Sheepscott, just above Five Islands. There can be a wicked strong
current coming through Goose Rock Passage and there is a reversing
falls called the Hellgate upriver towards the Kennebec below Bath.
From Robinhood Cove you are within easy sailing distance of Boothbay
or Casco Bay. By car it's almost 1/2 an hour drive down the Arrowsic
Peninsula from Bath, with only a small village at Robinhood itself.
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| 404.2 | Casco Bay, Go for it!! | CASADM::THOMAS | | Thu Sep 11 1986 18:21 | 32 |
| re S. Portland
don't know anything about that marina but that puts you right in
Casco Bay and there aint no better place to base a boat and still
live in the civilized world!!! We sailed there for 4 years and
loved every minute of it.
Travel to Casco Bay is fairly straightforward and painless except
for an occasional sunday night traffic jam on I95.
Handy's is just north of Portland in Falmouth foreside. The anchorage
is fairly open though so I won't recommend it too strongly. Sothf
Freeport has Ring's and Harraseeket Marine in a real protected
anchorage. We had a mooring with Harraseeket and were happy with
them although I can't speak for the new management.
There's a neat anchorage behind the Goslings at the southern end
of Lower Gooose that is great for little kids and adult kids as
well. Don't try to enter from the South... you have t go all the
way around to the side and give the northernmost island a wide berth.
There's a reef that runs quite aways back to the North.
You'll love Casco Bay.. and if you don't you're a Philistine :-)
Ed
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| 404.3 | | BAXTA::BELTON_TRAVI | | Fri Sep 12 1986 08:45 | 20 |
| Portland Harbor has been cleaned up enough in recent years so that
it is now tolerable, and of course you are minutes away from the
beauty of Casco Bay described by .2 if you go to Springpoint.
I'm going to the boatshow there this weekend and will try to get
their rates/availability. Many marinas on Casco Bay are filling
up; there are waiting lists in So. Freeport.
Robinhood would be at least an hour past Portland, plus you would
have to contend with the Bath bridge on Friday afternoons; long
waits to get across. Aside to potential Cape Dory owners: Robinhood
is now owned by the Prez of CD Yachts, Andy Valvolotis (sp).
I have not seen the CD26, but based on my experiences with the CD22
(described in note 166) it should be a fine family boat.
If you are interested in more detail about sailing in Casco Bay
I can give it.
Travis
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| 404.4 | Love the area; not the boat | WHY::FANEUF | | Fri Sep 12 1986 10:25 | 19 |
| Reply to both questions:
I chartered a CD26 several years ago. I found it a comfortable,
well-built boat, but an indifferent sailer. I believe there are
two choices of rig (regular and 'tall'); the better informed can
correct me. Anyway, we had the smaller, and the boat was a
poor windward performer. The rig produced little power, to the extent
that we could not successfully tack it in a light breezes (~10 kts)
and a chop (3-4 feet), and had to gybe instead. A very annoying
experience; left me with no inclination to charter again or own
one.
All the previous comments on Casco Bay etc. are true; but the best
part is that you can keep right on sailing east to Penobscot, Blue
Hill, and Frenchman's bays. Now THAT IS paradise.
Ross Faneuf
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| 404.5 | | MTBLUE::BELTON_TRAVI | | Mon Sep 22 1986 08:33 | 3 |
| A friend who keeps his CD28 at Springpoint says that there are only
slips there (no moorings) and that he pays $1100 for his slip.
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