All the fools were out today.

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What a great day for a cruise. We packed up the cooler with a great lunch and took off late morning. Came out of the canal in Lindenhurst and turned west in the north channel. Did a nice ride along Copiague, Amityville, and Massapequa with a little sightseeing in some of the canals, under the bridge into Wantagh Park, back around past Zachs, then dropped the anchor in Hemlock Cove for a little while to enjoy a good meal before heading back to Lindenhurst up through the Lindy cut about an hour ahead of the storm.
I couldn't help but notice how many fools were on the water today. Most were anchored in the middle of the channel fishing on a busy Sunday afternoon. I thought the booby prize was going to go to the folks on the hook on the south side of the State Boat channel just east of Tobay enjoying a good swim with the kids as they floated around and enjoyed a cold beer on a hot afternoon while all the boats passed by.
In the end they only placed second.
First prize goes to the knucklehead that was DIW alongside the second red buoy outside of the Lindenhurst pier. I was on plane coming north through the channel heading back in, just as I am approaching the guy he decides to put the boat in gear, pull left into the center of the channel right in front of me, and head back in himself. The guy never looked over his shoulder and I'm sure he still has no idea I was coming. Either that, or I guess he figures they have brakes on these things.
Good thing I was getting ready to slow down before approaching the pier and entering the canal.
He just went on his merry way back in to Surfside3, oblivious to the whole thing.
And here I was hoping that the price of gas would keep some of them home this summer.
Oh well, I guess if a fool can write a big enough check for that big shiney new boat that he has no idea how to operate, he can afford the gas for it.
Anyone else have any good funny ones they can share?
 
Maybe you should have laid on the horn as you approached him...just for fun.
 
We stayed aroound Reynolds Channel this weekend, tied up in front of the Long Beach High School, which seems to be the new "cove" due to fuel prices, but I noticed multiple no wake zone offenders, mostly jet skis, and that the big charter boats from Freeport and Point Look Out spent most of the day drifting the tight channel. Scary moment was watching boats zipping around the charters only to face a few "Teds Rental" families unknowingly fishing in the wrong spots. A 40'+ Sea Ray swamped this poor family. We just got back, did the Nautical Mile's festival, had a nice dinner, overall it was a great weekend.
 
I actually did toot the horn with two short blasts as I was approaching when he was DIW to let him know I was coming and intended to pass. I guess he took it as a signal to start moving if he heard it at all. He probably didn't hear it since he never once turned his head around. My bet is that he had the stereo so loud he didn't hear anything.
 
JVM.........Was that 40+' Carver/Silverton aft cabin still " aground " when you went thru the Lindy cut ????

One word came to mind when I seen that .................CLUELESS
 
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Originally posted by Double D

JVM.........Was that 40+' Carver/Silverton aft cabin still " aground " when you went thru the Lindy cut ????

One word came to mind when I seen that .................CLUELESS

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No, I didn't see anyone aground when I came through at about 4:00 PM. Maybe the high tide an hour or so earlier worked him free.
Where did he run aground? Was he in the channel or being bold outside the buoys?
There have been some really low tides lately. The people that run the boatyard I'm docked at told me they have had to haul six boats belonging to long time customers because of damage caused when they ran aground this past few weeks.
I took a trip through the Amity Channel Friday morning on a friends 24' center console. I had never been through there before. I know that lots of people use it, but I've also heard of lots of people running aground back in there and was never brave enough to give it a try. My friend figured that since the tide was up and we were on his center console it would be a good time to give it a try.
It was a little tricky getting in there from the west side, but it was very clearly marked once we were in there.
Friday night another friend calls me to see if I want to take a ride with him on his 24' Sea Ray. He keeps the boat on the Massapequa/Seaford border. We decide to take a trip through the cut because I had told him earlier how well marked it is inside and what a great way it was to avoid all that 5 MPH stuff. The tide was down so we decide to crawl through just to be safe. That turned out to be a good decision.
Sure enough we hit bottom right smack in the middle of it. Dead center between two buoys. The water was pretty clear back in there and we could see the little sandbar underneath us. We worked our way around it and got out of there.
That will be the last time we ever take that shortcut in anything but a really small boat at high tide.
 
It was for sure a rough day... WTF doesnt even begin........

that aft cabin at the lindy cut was still there around 2:30
 
Looks like he cut to the east side of that pole on the south end of the cut.............he was up hard.

Ain't boating fun ???????????
 
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Originally posted by Double D

Looks like he cut to the east side of that pole on the south end of the cut.............he was up hard.

Ain't boating fun ???????????

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Ouch! That's going to be expensive.
I see boats southbound through the cut turn east into the State Boat Channel and cut it to the east side of that pole all the time. I'm amazed that they make it. I know I wouldn't be so lucky.
I also see boats coming from the east turn right into the Lindy cut on the east side of that pole every once in awhile.
I always figured they must know what they're doing.
I always pass it on the west side.
 
This guy was headed east in the state channel.....then tried to go north in the cut.......why you would go on the east side of that pole is beyond me.

I always stay on the west side too.............
 
I wonder if that was the same Carver that was beached in Hemlock. That poor guy must have spent the night and woke to find himself out of the water. Took seatow hours to free him. Hemlock is a mess this year, anyone notice?
 
Where is it low? Been there 3 times already and every time it seemed fine.
 
I blew it Saturday coming south on the Babylon cut (? cut east of the Lindy) - went to the west too quick on plane and stopped short in the mud. Almost put a four-year-old guest through the windshield. She was fine.
Lifted the drive up, moved everyone (had a full boat load) up front, and floated away fine. No damage except to my ego.
Nice reminder to pay attention. Always. I think I get lazy.
 
For those concerned about the Amity Cut, I have boated through that area for over 30 years. While the buoys have gotten closer and the cut is a little more narrow, especially to the North, the key is to stay on plane. Even at low tide, you won't have trouble.

Challenge in that cut is if a sailboat is working through the northern section. Then you have to come off plane and it can get rough at low tide.
 
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For those concerned about the Amity Cut, I have boated through that area for over 30 years. While the buoys have gotten closer and the cut is a little more narrow, especially to the North, the key is to stay on plane. Even at low tide, you won't have trouble.

Challenge in that cut is if a sailboat is working through the northern section. Then you have to come off plane and it can get rough at low tide.

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You are right about staying on plane. I cut through there one Sunday evening last season on my way back to Lindenhurst from Tobay. I usually go east in the State Boat Channel then up through the Lindenhurst cut, but I wanted to get back in a hurry and avoid all thst 5 MPH stuff. That's the last time I'll do that.
I got stuck behind a very large boat that was towing an oversized dinghy behind it. I had to come off plane at the top of the Amity cut and it was pretty scary at times. I made it through OK in the end but the alarm on my depth finder was going nuts.
I kept wondering how the guy in the bigger boat ahead of me was making it through.
I don't take the Amity cut anymore unless it is at or near high tide.
 
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Originally posted by CurrentSea

Where is it low? Been there 3 times already and every time it seemed fine.

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If you enter and go all the way to the right. There are two little islands over there dividing the channel and the cove. Those islands shrunk for sure. We anchored where we always do, I took a dive off thinking we were in at least 8-9 feet, Thank God I skim when I dive because had I dove deep I'd be dead. I was skimming grass. It's changed, weird!
 
Ah! I used to go right, but it gets too bouncy and there is no beach except at dead low!
I go left now all the way in the back, so Gizmo has some beach to run around on!
Plus left you don't bounce as much.
 
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