Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
The Florida District website has been updated to include results from the 2005 Gator Bowl in Jacksonville. There were 18 boats entered, mostly from Florida, we missed the Carolina District. Click here for results http://www.fssa.com/fldist/news.htm
Brian is correct there are not alot of campsites close to the club. However Fort Desoto park is beautiful and has excellent camping, it is located on the Gulf of Mexico in the southwest corner of Pinellas County. I think it would be about a 20 to 30 minute drive from the club, mostly by highway. Here is a link to the website; http://www.pinellascounty.org/park/05_Ft_DeSoto.htm
I would chose this over the KOA which is located in a commercial area of St Pete although once inside the park it is not bad but no comparison to Fort Desoto.I have my Scot for less than a year and have wondered how well items stored in the boat while tailering will stay put. My method so far has been to put most of the line tails on the stbd. side of the trunk and lay the boom on top of them. I don’t worry much about scratches, and since the paint on my floor wore off years ago there isn’t much to scratch. In order to speed set up and take down I leave every item possible rigged for sailing; Spin and main sheets, vang, shrouds etc. Thanks to the recent hurricanes here in Florida I was able to perform a little test this past weekend. The boat had thousands of oak leaves and some small branches in the cockpit. I had about 20 miles to trailer and so we took off for the club. The leaves on deck blew away quickly but then it appeared the others were staying for the ride. We never exceeded 75 mph but still I was suprised that I did not see any indication of the leaves leaving in my rear view mirror. Sure enough upon arriving at the club and inspecting the boat I don’t think any leaves blew out. We did notice on previous trips that the empty beer cans have no tendency to fly out of the boat either. So the bad thing is we had to clean out the leaves but the good thing is I will no longer be concerned about securing items in the boat.
PS I bet there are some good tailering stories out there quite to the contrary.
