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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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#56 ·
I'm glad you asked in minutes, I really struggle with archaic measurement system like cubits, feet and miles. BTW I have small feet so does that make me further away?
 
#57 ·
time as an accurate measure of distance

In cursing boats you don't think about the physical distance in a comparative sense, but rather how long it will take to get there (or how much time you will have to enjoy getting there). In the same way different boats travel at different speeds, so do different boat owners.
Among physicists there is a tangible measurement of distance, a nanosecond, the distance it takes light to travel in one nanosecond (one billionth of a second) = 29.98cm/11.803in.
 
#60 ·
Night0wl,

That picture is just awesome. You really have it good.

It's winter time now, so our boat is 25 minutes away on the hard. I try to get there every week to monitor the battery voltages among other things.

I'm planning to lauch in early April (not late June like last year). If we get in well before everyone else, maybe we'll have a few weeks before we get kicked out to go to our summer cruising grounds, which are 100 miles away.

Regards,
Brad
p.s. Bump!
 
#62 ·
There's more to it than just how long it takes to get to the boat. There's also how long it takes to get the boat to where you can actually sail. We had a choice -- put the boat at a marina 5-15 minutes from our house but then spend 1.5 to 2 hours motoring out to the bay or put the boat in a marina an hour or so from our house but once we leave the marina we're out sailing.
We chose the latter.
 
#64 ·
Very true.. we were in a similar situation.. though the driving time was similar (15-30 minutes) , we are now literally 5 minutes from sailing, whereas before we had a tidal narrows that meant either 30 or 60 minutes to the bay depending on current - and at some times there was no getting in or out (currents 7-9 knots) and even with manageable currents the wind over the flow made for dangerous seas at times.

Much happier now, despite more city driving to get to the boat.
 
#63 · (Edited)
Summer = Two moorings depending upon my mood or weather.

Mooring #1 - 30 yard walk from house to beach/dinghy, then about 100 yards across the water.

Mooring #2 - .9 miles to to the yacht club then about 130 yards on the launch.

We can sail off the mooring as both moorings are in the heart of Casco Bay, which is prime sailing waters..


Winter = 2.3 miles to boat yard.

Some winters I bring her home so 25 feet...
 
#66 ·
5 minutes on foot, to my community beach/jetty.
10 minutes of prep to get underway.
15 minutes of motoring to get where a skilled sailor can cut the engine if the wind is blowing from the right direction, 30 minutes if it's not.

I couldn't imagine berthing anywhere else.
 
#67 · (Edited by Moderator)
I have to chime in. I can see my boat from my apartment. I can be in my living room and decide to go for a sail and be on the Bay under sail in 15 minutes. If the wind is right I can sail out of my slip and out of the creek. If I am really lucky I can sail back into the slip too. Every day I am still in awe at what a great find this place is.
 
#71 ·
Lucky me! The dock is just behind the apartment complex. I look out the window, see a breeze in the trees and on Medicine Lake, call a friend, and be ready to go before they show up with breakfast! I'm also the only sailboat at dock so they let me have the end where I can easily dock from either direction instead of entering a slip. I think I'm spoiled with my first sailboat!
 
#74 ·
Bump.

There's a good thread on this that someone just bumped, but the poll result here are so revealing that I thought I'd bump this too.

Regards,
Brad
 
#75 ·
Although we are just over an hour away from our slip, it is not a long distance relative to our typical work commutes. But there is a glimmer of the work commute ending in a few more years with the free time expanding - and the grandkids could spend more time with us...
 
#76 ·
Just spent over a week on the boat. That was excellent. 0 feet away from the boat. We did some sailing too.

Regards,
Brad
 
#80 ·
In the summer she's on a trailer mast up at the Marina ready to sail, 2 hrs away...

In the winter she's in the barn mast down ready to work on 2 minutes away....
 
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