Great South Bay - anchor up for breakfast

[PeterPalmieri]

Seeing posts by Peter with his new boat in Oakdale, Chris in Lindenhurst. I'm in Babylon, Bob Lico is in Oakdale, Craig Mac is in Bellmore? Ed Curry in Lindenhurst and there are some others.

Why don't we plan on meeting up early on a Saturday or Sunday morning, raft up for breakfast somewhere between Islip and Babylon with coffee and bagels...Maybe some of the other Long Islanders who aren't as close can hop a ride with one of the local boats...

[pschauss]

Sounds like a great idea. Saturdays work best for me.

[CHolgerson]

HI Guys,
The boat is only going to be in Lindenhurst temporarily. It is eventually going to Indian River Delaware. I am free most of the summer. Let me know when, if the boat is still here I will join you.

[kross1]

Hello All
I am fairly new to the Bertram family. We have a Bertram 28 FBC.We are out of Babylon.
Would love to see some of the Bertram's in the neighborhood.

Kenny

[bob lico]

i moved my boat to Blue Point at Nichols point. i am directly across from the new facility at watch hill. the feds pour millions into the watch hill marina and Fire Island National Seashore.the place is perfect BBQ next to the wilderness and gather up a couple dozen clams in the low water on the west side of the entrance. simply beautiful

[PeterPalmieri]

I love watch hill. That was the spot I went with my parents as a kid. Great memories spending every weekend and two weeks during the summer.

[Carl]

Other then the Horse Flies at dusk, a magnificent place. Man, those flies left welts when they flew into you, never mind the bites.
LOL. Took us a little while to figure out when to stay in the cabin or the screen room.

During the week when we had the place to ourselves,
it had to be the closest I'll get to owning an island in paradise.

Bit of a ride, but well worth it, many good years of memories were made there.

[bob lico]

carl someone gave some through to 31 Bertram when you dock boat the walkway is level with transom thru both tides. the restaurant is very clean and the food is good.new Tiki bar next to the restaurant. unique a/c keeps the boat at 68 in 90-degree weather. the compressor is silent under the head vanity, mounted on 2" rubber membrane. son install electronic bug killer and hung from the center rigger and stayed 3 days. -------paradise

[Carl]

Oh good, restaurant is open again!
Last time it was the general store, snack bar and the bar.
Mostly cooked on our BBQ's and boat...but couple times we made trek over to Davis Park restaurant.

So you clam outside the marina? Last time a gent gave us a few he got, tried to explain were he went. We gave a try then decided to just order'em and have ferry bring over...awesome clams.

If I ever get boat squared away again, Watch Hill goes back on my short list of summer vacation spots.

[bob lico]

the feds put 2.4 million into the place they also spray for greenfly, mosquitos, and most of all beach was replenished with thousands of yards of sand.was listed as one of top ten beaches in the world. about ten miles down the beach a sunken 1800 wreck that went aground surfaced on the beach due to 4 northeasterner in a row moving sand westerly. anyways very few places in the civilized world can match fire island national seashore not a structure on the beach for 32 miles. one beautiful beach facility we have here.

[PeterPalmieri]

Carl, Certainly if you guys come out this summer we can take you to all meet up over there rather then Sailors Haven, both great spots..

Bob when I was a kid the rangers would have daily activities for the kids, I think they still do this. One of those trips was to hike to the ship wreck (it was exposed in the 80s too), another was to row east in the bay and go snorkeling, obviously walk the nature trails, collect shells and watch movies at night up by the showers. We'd occasionally walk over to the Davis Park Casino for dinner, coming back at night we'd have to try and out run the bugs.

[Carl]

Carl, Certainly if you guys come out this summer we can take you to all meet up over there rather then Sailors Haven, both great spots..

Peter- We've only been to Watch Hill, walked to Davis Park.
It's been a catch 22...try someplace else and not be at Watch Hill.

Last few times out there we said we'd do Watch Hill for a couple days, then start heading back trying the other places, namely Sailors Haven for a day or so.

But pack a boat with clothes, toys, food, drink, ice, blenders, tents for a week, for 4 people and a dog...get there, unpack, setup, situate the boat for sleeping, living, cooking...we'd setup, start sinking into laid back vacation mode. That idea of repacking to move vanished.

So...we'd love to try someplace else.

[PeterPalmieri]

Sounds perfect to me

[bob lico]

the BIG if is sailors haven although beautiful in it`s unique Sunken Forest with trees and birds indigenous to sunken forest and no other place in the world has very limited docking on July ,August weekends while Watch Hill now has 275 slips (wow) and if you can dock that Bertram in an "A" slip you can have a slip any day you want. incidentally the fantastic chef they hired for the restaurant cause the Feds to change the rules. You come over to eat at the restaurant and you receive a "chit" from waitress after dinner then present to the dockmaster (Santa Claus looking old dude) and dockage is free.-------very classy!

[pschauss]

Yesterday afternoon I took my first run across the bay to Sailors Haven with my wife, daughter, her two children (10 and 2). It took my about 10 minutes to get out of the Connetquot River (no wake zone) and another 10 to get across the by. That's a good bit faster than I could ever do sailing my ODay Mariner 25+ years ago. My daughter said that she has always loved the boardwalks through the woods and wanted her children to see them.

When I initially tried to reserve a slip they told me that there was a two night minimum but they called me back and said they could waive that requirement. I'm not clear what prompted them to do that.

[PeterPalmieri]

I've never heard of the two night minimum. We generally shoot for heading over first thing Saturday morning, get there before 10AM and almost always get one of the last spots. It's a risk though, especially on Holiday weekends,

This coming Sunday we are headed to Sailors Haven and just plan on anchoring up for a partial day. If anyone wants to join