Conference unifix::sailing

    There are two phones available.  One is in the yatch club house
    (it will most likely be lock though).  The other is in front of
    the a store called the bluffhead.  Best directions is to row over
    to the fish docks, tie your skiff up and go ashore.  Start to walk
    of the point following the road, just as you leave the parking area
    look to you left infront of the stair that lead to the bluffhead
    is a phone booth.
    
    There's not much in sakonnet harbor so enjoy the quietness!
    
    Cheers,
    
    Tom
    
    PS.  I'm from that area if you need any details give me a call DTN
    296.3205.
    
    

    Thanks Tom,
    
    I spent a night in the harbor with northwest winds last fall.
    I still have some scars from hitting the overhead in the chop!
    Don

    
    
    	Next time try NAVY BEACH or Third Beach across the river
    	from the harbor. There are plenty of moorings and
    	it can be calm as a small lake.

    Sakonnet can and is a real BI*%@ in any wind from the north.  So
    far I have had over $3000.00 worth of damage to my boat in the last
    8 year.  
    
    Did you find the phone alright?
    
    RE: .3 third beach or Sachuest as we local call it (i know the chart
           shows second beach as Sachuest) is nice and flat.
    
    Cheers,
    
    Tom
    
    

    
    
    
    
    
    
    Why not use the phone buoy?  It's the second one in, past the mail buoy.
                                                                      
                                                                      
    
    
    
 

    
    
    I thought the second one in was the gulls room, the third the phone
    bouy and the fourth and over to the left was the bouys room?
    Don

    Dear Sakonnet,
    
    	Well, did not make it on Oct. 22 as proposed, but finally
    this past Saturday, Nov. 19. And that was not by design. We were
    being blown down the Sakonnet with about 15-20 for awhile. I was
    doing my usual visual check of the gear and noted that the rudder
    shaft coupling key was working its way out. Not a PM that you can
    perform when the rudder is under such stress as in those winds!
    And better to tend to it now than out in Buzzards Bay.
    
    Thus we dropped sail and headed into Sakonnet harbor. "MMMMMmmmmm"
    I mused " there's some of those barrels used to hold up fish nets".
    My golly, they look to be strung actoss the entrance to the harbor!"
    Well, they were. And there were no markings to indicate where the
    net cable was strung. We came near enough to see the cable. Then
    swung out back in the main part of the river. The only entry was
    from the South West. And that was pocked with black colored floats
    that marked the location of the nets anchors.
    
    I thought of how things could have ended up if it had been after
    dark. We have a long sloping keel (traditional Alden). Probably
    would not have affected us. Although the rudder would take a hit
    as the end of the keel passed over the cable. Had it been pitch
    dark, we would  probably not have seen it until too late. What
    came to mind was what happens to boats with dagger keels and
    rudders and exposed props and shafts............
    
    Well we made the repair in the harbor. Looked for the phone bouy
    to make an angry call to the net putter, but decided against it.
    
    Don

    RE: .7
    
    What you encountered was the toll buoy.  The cable part is called a
    toll line.  Unfortunately, it only takes exact change.  However, if you
    can take the dinghy over to the phone buoy, you can open it by placing
    a toll call.