{"id":176,"date":"2015-05-10T21:40:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T01:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/?p=176"},"modified":"2015-05-10T22:17:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T02:17:20","slug":"delivering-kinship-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Delivering Kinship – Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Delivery<\/p>\n

For Ontarians, buying a boat in the US often means hiring a trucking company to bring the boat home. \u00a0Good boat shippers make this process easy but the costs are significant. \u00a0Before the buying Kinship our plan was to take Penny for a 3 week holiday on Lake Ontario. \u00a0So, spend a fortune bringing the boat home on a truck, or take a couple of weeks off to bring Kinship home on her keel?<\/p>\n

So, on May 16th we set sail for Annapolis on our way back to Kingston. \u00a0We will sail up the Chesapeake bay, through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to Delaware Bay. \u00a0Out into the Atlantic for an overnight coastal passage to New York City. \u00a0A day in New York to rest and relax, then off up the Hudson to Catskill to lower the mast. \u00a0Up to Troy to the Eire Canal to Oswego, up goes the mast, then a day sail across Lake Ontario to Kingston.<\/p>\n

There is a little bit of everything on this trip. \u00a0A little bit of sailing the Chesapeake, a little bit of Atlantic coastal sailing and a week of docking practice on the canal system. \u00a0We have 2 couples, all NSC members joining us until New York so we have experienced crew for the overnight passage. \u00a0They have all sailed a Saga 43 so we have a great team for the trip.<\/p>\n

Planning the trip has been quite an exercise, in theory, I am a qualified tidal day skipper, but this qualification was taken in the late 70s as a teenager. \u00a0We did some tidal sailing in New Zealand a couple of years ago, but it hardly counts. \u00a0The currents and tides in Delaware Bay are significant and need planning to ensure we have access to the planned moorings and to ensure we don’t end up in a shipping lane bucking the tide.<\/p>\n

The passage to New York needs a backup route in case New Jersey turns into a lee shore. \u00a0There are few safe ports on the NJ coast in a strong wind with a easterly component, you have to commit to New York, or wait for a better day.<\/p>\n

Skipper Bob<\/a>\u00a0has a great guide for the New York Canal System, we used this to plan the timing of our route from Troy to Oswego.<\/p>\n

The Shards<\/a> did an episode on sailing from Oswego to New York, this was handy as it shows how to get through the locks and showed a lot of the lovely scenery.<\/p>\n

The plan is now a detailed float plan and we are almost ready to slip the lines and leave. \u00a0Next up, is the boat ready?<\/p>\n

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For Ontarians, buying a boat in the US often means hiring a trucking company to bring the boat home. \u00a0Good boat shippers make this process easy but the costs are significant. \u00a0Before the buying Kinship our plan was to take Penny for a 3 week holiday on Lake Ontario. \u00a0So, spend a fortune bringing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"amp_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eglin.net\/2bikes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}