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- Thread starter El and Bill
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I have to envy your experiences. Doing half your travels is still a goal for me and I am still running my own business with no debt but very little free time (at 52 years old).
My wife is apprehensive about such a nomadic life and has two (first two of many I am sure) questions.
What about church and getting to mass?
How do you find pickelball opportunities?
My wife is apprehensive about such a nomadic life and has two (first two of many I am sure) questions.
What about church and getting to mass?
How do you find pickelball opportunities?
journey on
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We took Our Journey, a sailboat, from the C-D Canal down the Delaware River through the Cape May Canal. The ferry docks right at the west entrance to the canal. Since Our Journey got through, it's an easy shot for a C-Dory and avoids rounding Cape May.
For anything inside the Delaware Bay, the canal offers a good entrance or exit, either for crossing the bay or going upstream between the C&D Canal. It was put in during WWII to avoid U-boat attacks off the Cape.
Once you're in the harbour, you can go up the coast either inside (on a C-Dory) or outside (on a sailboat.)
Boris
For anything inside the Delaware Bay, the canal offers a good entrance or exit, either for crossing the bay or going upstream between the C&D Canal. It was put in during WWII to avoid U-boat attacks off the Cape.
Once you're in the harbour, you can go up the coast either inside (on a C-Dory) or outside (on a sailboat.)
Boris
Robert H. Wilkinson
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Yankee 1 - if you head north a bit to the 1000 Islands(St. Lawrence River) you can go to church on your boat. At the Gananoque Marina on Sundays there is a group that walks around the harbour offering people a free boat ride to their church - which is on an island! Don't know what kind of church it is but I guess once they got you there - you'd have to listen or swim! :shock:
Regards, Rob
Regards, Rob
El and Bill
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Bob - what a great idea -- hitch a ride on a boat to a church on an island!
And, Yankee 1 -- when cruising, figure where you will likely be on a Sunday morning (and, if weather might be a factor, where you will likely be on that Saturday morning, google search the catholic church in town and the time for mass, see how long a walk it might be from the marina in town to church, and with good weather enjoy a nice stroll.
You will likely meet folks in church and they could be interested in chatting with a cruising couple (we have been asked to join for lunch by friendly church folk). If the church is too distant, see if the town before, along your route, has a better walk. OR -- on the web, we have communicated with the pastor or a church contact listed, and asked if someone would offer us a ride to and from the service. Sure have met some great folks this way.
Now -- to Pickleball -- hmm -- http://www.usapa.org/whatis_pball/ might be a help, otherwise we'd better see if some other pickle ball players in the pub can respond to your question -- we don't know.
But - back to your wife's question about church. We have found finding and attending a Sunday service, while cruising, has been one of the delights of cruising. Have met such good people and shared such good times -- sometimes, folks have 'adopted' us -- showing us their town, near-by sights or historical places, and sharing evening discussions, often with neighbors included, of their lives. We've had great evenings hosting those folks on the boat and playing UNO aboard with their kids. And sometimes taking them out for an afternoon cruise of their harbor or river.
And, Yankee 1 -- when cruising, figure where you will likely be on a Sunday morning (and, if weather might be a factor, where you will likely be on that Saturday morning, google search the catholic church in town and the time for mass, see how long a walk it might be from the marina in town to church, and with good weather enjoy a nice stroll.
You will likely meet folks in church and they could be interested in chatting with a cruising couple (we have been asked to join for lunch by friendly church folk). If the church is too distant, see if the town before, along your route, has a better walk. OR -- on the web, we have communicated with the pastor or a church contact listed, and asked if someone would offer us a ride to and from the service. Sure have met some great folks this way.
Now -- to Pickleball -- hmm -- http://www.usapa.org/whatis_pball/ might be a help, otherwise we'd better see if some other pickle ball players in the pub can respond to your question -- we don't know.
But - back to your wife's question about church. We have found finding and attending a Sunday service, while cruising, has been one of the delights of cruising. Have met such good people and shared such good times -- sometimes, folks have 'adopted' us -- showing us their town, near-by sights or historical places, and sharing evening discussions, often with neighbors included, of their lives. We've had great evenings hosting those folks on the boat and playing UNO aboard with their kids. And sometimes taking them out for an afternoon cruise of their harbor or river.
If you have a church preference, look them up, call, and often times they will come and pick you up at the dock. I have done that several times and it always turns out well. When I call, I also ask if there is a pot luck lunch after service. If so, I bring something along for that too. 
Harvey
SleepyC:moon
Harvey
SleepyC:moon
Stan, Our 2 cents, in 2002 we did the "Loop" in our 42' Grand Banks. Everyone said we could NOT do the ICW in NJ because our draft was over 4'. Well we did it! There were some shallow places & very narrow channels, got stuck in the MUCK once & had to wait for a raising tide. Hind sight we should of moved in tune with the tides, but we did it & had a great time in NJ. The only time of the whole loop trip that we went into the ocean was around Sandy Hook, very easy passage. I would do the trip in a C-Dory anytime. Roy