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John Welsford's avatar

Years ago I was waiting for the Cook Strait ferry with my 20 footer on the trailer behind me, the ferry is a 20k ton monster that travels between our south and north islands. It was late, the ferry was not going to run until morning, and it was in the depths of winter and howling down with rain.

Being late the town was shut, no food, nothing. The car behind mine had what looked like a young mum and dad, a small child and a baby, crammed in with a heap of luggage. They were going to have to spend a very uncomfortable night in there so I tapped on the window, pointed to my boat, explained that I had room on board and could heat up something to eat.

They accepted the invitation, hot soup and bread, mum 'n dad with baby took the big vee double forward, the child got one quarter berth and I the other. I had enough blankets to keep everyone warm.

It was a nice night, they were very pleasant people and the child though it was a great adventure, I was happy to help.

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David Mcdonald's avatar

I would like to see more of this topic in Small Craft. I would also like to travel with a Catalina 22 for vacations. We made a trip to finger lakes without the boat to see how to do an east coast trip. September was the off season and with school in there was slip space but the camp ground was full of glampers. We had a tent and everyone looked at us like we were nuts but for us it was a stop over for a VRBO on Cape Cod. KOA stop on the way to NY was great off season it was almost empty that night we rented a cabin and we had the sleeping bags and pillows. Lessons learned don’t drive major highways 75, 81, 95 are loaded with 18 wheelers and they ride the line in the center of the lane. We came back from Massachusetts on the NY turn pike, trucks don’t like to pay the tolls. We dropped down to Cincinnati then headed south to the land between the lakes and checked out and stayed at the KOA there, it was nice. I would route the trip with KOA in mind and use the smaller Hwys, rig the the boat for plug in power and look at small A/C and way to vent out the hatch for southern trips. Next trip to checkout the route for us is to Door County Wisconsin and see what hwy 57 north is like to travel.

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