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How far are you from your sailboat?

  • 0 minutes, I live aboard

    Votes: 59 10.0%
  • 1 to 14 minutes

    Votes: 178 30.1%
  • 15 to 29 minutes

    Votes: 83 14.0%
  • 30 to 44 minutes

    Votes: 59 10.0%
  • 45 to 59 minutes

    Votes: 52 8.8%
  • 60 to 74 minutes (just over an hour)

    Votes: 42 7.1%
  • 75 to 89 minutes (just over an hour and 15 minutes)

    Votes: 12 2.0%
  • 90 to 104 minutes (just over an hour and 30 minutes)

    Votes: 14 2.4%
  • 105 to 119 minutes (just over an hour and 45 minutes)

    Votes: 12 2.0%
  • 2 hours or more

    Votes: 87 14.7%

How far are you from your sailboat?

28K views 127 replies 97 participants last post by  ianjoub 
#1 ·
This is a older thread that deserves to be a Sailnet poll.

IMHO this is best measured in the time it takes to get to your boat, since traffic and mode of transportation vary widely. If you have to row out to your boat, count that time to. So it's door-to-door, or door-to-hatch if you prefer.

If you move her (as I do in the winter), use the average distance.
 
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#29 ·
With the boat very close now, I'm finding that I go there more often. Of course, she's on the hard and I'm generally working on her.

And I didn't get much done with all the snow all over.
 
#32 ·
The boat is parked in my yard right now, so it's a minute or less from the kitchen door to walk across the driveway, climb the boat stairs, and step aboard.

But it is off-season.

In season, it's a four-hour drive to where the boat is normally moored.
 
#36 ·
I voted "15-29" but that's in the summer. Right now, it's 1/2 hour to get to the Island Airport, then a 2 hour walk around Toronto Island too get to the actual boat.

Getting to the boat is one thing. Being able to use it is another. Currently sitting 100' from the water. Snow. Ice. It all sucks. Need summer badly.
 
#38 ·
I'm currently about an hour and a half away, but that's because the boat is on the hard up in Maine. In a month and a half (weather permitting), I'll be sailing her down to Boston, and then after a bit of preparation, I'll be zero minutes away, living aboard!
 
#48 ·
Hot,

7 miles of motoring is probably worth it since you can see her all the time.

Have you ever thought about keeping her loser to the ocean for a few weeks? Or do you go on enough trips that get you out there?

Regards
 
#49 ·
True, I get to drive by and check on her every time I go out, but until recently there were few other options due to a lack of launch ramps (I row out).

I have to plan around the tide quite a bit or I can spend the whole day motoring in and out, so until I retired I was pretty limited in my after work sailing. Nowadays I can pretty much go sailing when I please!:cool:

Recently friends on the other side of town have offered the use of their dinghy float, so I may move her over there when next I commission her.

No tidal currents, open water nearby, yeeehaaaa!
 
#50 ·
Walking distance -----10 minutes

Car ---5 min (it's circuitous by car but not on foot)

Scooter (if done illegally on the bike path down the hill) 2 min :)



If it weren't for the Water treament facility I'd be able to see the marina from my house.
 
#51 ·
My boat is half way between my job and my home, perfect, 10 to 15 minutes away from either location.

Even better, my boat is about 100 yards away from a floating bar called weekends which is pretty fun.
 
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