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Re: Deadman’s Dinghy Ride
[Re: Manpot]
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04/05/2019 05:43 PM
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Two boats means one thing..every day will be a two boat race! Dinghy racing for sure! Or how about a dinghy jousting tournament?!?
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Re: Deadman’s Dinghy Ride
[Re: SonOfTheSea]
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04/06/2019 06:17 AM
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Depending where you're moored in GH its roughly 1.5nm...so with fair weather its not too bad. A few regular dinghy trips we do with the right weather with comparison distances below:
Dinghy Trellis to MC 0.9 Dinghy North Sound to ONB 1.9 Dinghy GH to Soggs 1.2 Dinghy Bight to Indians 1.1 Dinghy GH to Deadmans 1.5
Last edited by Christo; 04/06/2019 06:19 AM.
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Re: Deadman’s Dinghy Ride
[Re: SonOfTheSea]
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04/06/2019 09:31 AM
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We always beached and secured our dinghy then walked through the trees around past Conrads house, around sprat bay and into the resort and onto deadmans beach for a stroll . Nice little easy hike . Have not been to Peter since Irma and Willy T arrival so not sure this is feasible any longer? Will be checking it out in a few weeks. April 14 th departure can't come soon enough ...still snowing here in my part of the world!!
Kim
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Re: Deadman’s Dinghy Ride
[Re: Sandsailsun]
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04/06/2019 11:25 AM
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We always beached and secured our dinghy then walked through the trees around past Conrads house, around sprat bay and into the resort and onto deadmans beach for a stroll . Nice little easy hike . Have not been to Peter since Irma and Willy T arrival so not sure this is feasible any longer? Will be checking it out in a few weeks. April 14 th departure can't come soon enough ...still snowing here in my part of the world!! I’ve gathered from a different thread in the past that hiking through the resort area is off limits but the beach itself is okay. There hasn’t been much, if any, feedback on conditions there, so I’m sure many of us would enjoy hearing how your visit goes. Really curious to see what it looks like now!
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Re: Deadman’s Dinghy Ride
[Re: SonOfTheSea]
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04/06/2019 11:44 AM
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I can’t wait to make the usual island rounds . Been down a couple times post Irma but not sailing or on the water, except a ferry over to Anegada , since we lost Reef Song . Will post a trip report upon my return .
Kim
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Re: Deadman’s Dinghy Ride
[Re: SonOfTheSea]
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04/06/2019 06:32 PM
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Just FYI....
We have had out board motor problems with dinghys.....with the Moorings, Sunsail, and Conch. We would not want to make a dink passage at sea. We also sail the BVI in May, and have been for 35 years. May brings great sailing trade winds, 11 to 20, our of the NE, or south of NE. Wave and say Bye, Bye, if that dink motor becomes inoperative.
We would also suggest, day anchorage at Deadmans Bay , then motor over to Great Harbor and party down at the Will T with the vessel on a mooring..
We also have professionally lead flotlllas in the south pacific, and caribbean and coastal islands of so calif. . Suggest with two boats, establish your procedures. One boat will be the flotilla leader, and both boats will stay together. Or, each skipper will chart his own course, and you may plan on meeting up, if winds, and hangovers , or extended time some place really great does not interfere. Have a procedure set , either way.
With no plan, it will be a goat rope, and not good relations between the crews can occur.
The skippers of the both vessels should be highly qualified and experienced as they are responsible not only for the vessel, but for each and every person on board. The OP, is on vacation as well, and up to him if he wants to add in being group leader . One other thing is that the OP does not want to be worrying about the other vessel.
The flotillas that I lead, Tahiti, Tonga, The Windwards and the BVI as well as 10 to 12 boat training cruises SAILING newport bay to Two Harbors Catalina. ( the training cruise it was requrired to maintain group integrity.and That was sailing from about 10am until near midnight...no motoring ).
For all flotillas . we had pre cruise meetings, chart meetings, etc, and usually what occured, on he international sailing vacatiions is that the very highly experienced skippers charted their own courses. The fist timers to bare boat international sailing stayed with me for as long as they wished. But, they had to communicate their intentions.
There you go... just FYI.
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Re: Deadman’s Dinghy Ride
[Re: Sandsailsun]
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04/06/2019 09:28 PM
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We always beached and secured our dinghy then walked through the trees around past Conrads house, around sprat bay and into the resort and onto deadmans beach for a stroll . Nice little easy hike . Have not been to Peter since Irma and Willy T arrival so not sure this is feasible any longer? Will be checking it out in a few weeks. April 14 th departure can't come soon enough ...still snowing here in my part of the world!! Kim, we used to do the same same thing. But, after we passed Conrad’s house we were looking across Sprat Bay and a guy in a red shirt came flying across the bay in a dinghy and wanted to know how we got there. He wanted us off the property and asked why we crossed the fence. He insisted we knocked down his fence, which we didn’t. It seemed to be several palettes maybe stood up on their sides. He was pretty rude and intimidating. So be careful anywhere on Peter other than the shoreline in GH. They don’t seem to want people anywhere on the island right now.
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Re: Deadman’s Dinghy Ride
[Re: hallucination]
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04/09/2019 05:55 PM
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When we we're down last, there is NO WAY you could walk across, a massive pileup of mangroves about 10 ft high. HiYa Kim.
Hi Robert , I am sure we will see that many many things have changed post Irma !!!
Kim
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