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Location for member correspondence about the IYC Club Cruises.
Please make sure you put The Cruise your posting about.
Subject: The cruise itself.
Current Cruises Planned
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Here is a list of cruises scheduled (dates are set, marinas are booked) for the remainder of 2024 and early 2025.
October 16-18, 2024 Pink Shell Jeff Ziemer
November 8-18, 2024 Tag-A-Long* Alan Grossman
January 22-24, 2025 Boca Grande Mark Kuharski**
May 29-31, 2025 Venice Doug Sheid
*this cruise is filled, but Alan is maintaining a waitlist
**we need a backup cruise director
Tentative cruises have been discussed; however, details and cruise leaders are needed.
February 2025 possibly Naples
March 2025 Marina Jack John Todd
April 2025 Tween Waters/Captiva
June 2025 Marlin Bay (Marathon, FL)
July 2025 East Coast trip Glenn Mayer
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Update to the Venice YC Tag-a-Long Cruise, November 8, November 9, 2024 as of November 1, 2024
We are reserved for VYC for the 2 evenings., listed above. There is at least one additional slip available. If interested, email me with your boat particulars or call me at cell 609-932-9219. VYC reports that the marina is in operation as is the clubhouse food service. Dock, water and power are reportedly in good order. We will do dinner at VYC on Nov 9, outside, at 6PM.
I await a return call from Bird Key, our next stop for an arrivalNovember 10, stay on Nov 10 and Nov. 11 and depart Nov 12.. Dates revised as the Field Club docks are closed and Sarasota YC has only about one half docks avai9lable and are not taking outside YCs.
I am not booking a stay at Marina Jacks but those interested can book directly.
Alan Grossman, IYC 609-932-9219 [email protected]
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Update on the November 8, 2024 Tag a Long Cruise: Two spots are available at Venice YC. Field Club is damaged and will not receive vessels. Awaiting condition info for Sarasota and Bird Key YC where we have two openings if they are receiving vessels.
Alan Grossman
cell 609-932-9219
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Palm Harbour cruise 17-19 July 2024
Five boats with 12 people enjoyed very comfortable travel conditions and nice weather, despite the typical high temperatures. We had the marina and pool to ourselves the entire time, using the nice pavilion to have our first night docktails and potluck supper. All the food was terrific. A difficult nautical quiz followed, but collectively, all the questions were answered correctly, so the champagne toast was well earned.
Thursday, the participants had orange juice and muffins, courtesy of co-leader, Diane Ising. There was a jigsaw puzzle marathon by a few, along with lots of pool time and conversation. At 5:30, we took the water taxi over to Palm Island for dinner at the Rum Bay restaurant. Some enjoyed more conversation under the pavilion until near dusk
As a way to get out and use your boat in the middle of the summer, it was a great success. If the summers stay as hot as they have been in recent years, we may shift the timing to September and hope for a little bit less heat. Palm Harbour is overdue for a complete renovation after hurricane Ian in September 2022, so we will monitor their progress.
Attendees: Collins, Kuharski, Wuckert, Swanson/Thompson, Ising (cruise leaders)
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Subject: “Any interest in a July/August 2025 Chartering Cruise & Suggested Destinations”
Please provide your thoughts and interest in joining an IYC Cruise to where? The idea is that those interested in gaming out a planned group cruise to a destination of our group’s choice. If we booked charter boats, choices of power and/or sail, captained or self piloted for about a week, is there a list of spots we could consider for the group?
Some possible suggestions I offer that I have done in the past are offered to get your mind in gear for these locations or even better spots: In the United States, the Northeast offers many possibilities from the waters in CT, RI, MA, ME. Winning spots are always to be found at any of these and chartering is pretty easily accomplished. A fun but longer trip would be on the Hudson River and possibly into Canada. An easy site is Lake Champlain with its many towns and sights.
Overseas, another possibility: Scotland offers the Caledonian Canal (Loch Ness to Inverness) as well as other possibilities . Spain is another great spot to cruise including Majorca, Minorca via Barcelona, Portugal, Shannon River in Ireland.
Charter vessels run in size from 2 to 6 people aboard, generally and larger power vessels are likely crewed. Prices, as you would expect, vary widely based on number of cabins, length, power vs sail, crewed vs self-pilot, etc
Once a few popular spots emerge from this survey of interest, I can get some tentative details of possible boats, costs, routes.
Please email your ideas via response to this post so that others can flush out additional thoughts. If you want to speak with me directly but you are encouraged to respond via the IYC Cruiser pages, my cell is 609-932-9219, email- [email protected] Thank you, Alan Grossman
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Hi, Alan,
This is an intriguing idea. Before purchasing a boat, we did several bareboat charters in the Caribbean. Now that we have a boat, we prefer to spend our available cruising funds using her rather than chartering. Hopefully, though, there will be others who share your interest.
Duane Ising
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2024 Bahamas Trip Numbers
For those who like numbersTrip duration 85 days 5 hours
Total NM traveled 1,277
Day in Marina/wall/boat-yard 27
Day at anchor 58
Total time underway 234 hours 56 minutes
Top speed 15.2 knots — conditions wind 30ish, waves aft of the stb beam 12 footers
Longest NM day 86.33. Shortest NM day 3.99
Longest time underway 14 hours-Shortest time underway 1hrWhat did we break?
Generator relay $16
GPS AIS data sender $120
Port engine head, head gasket, valves, injectors, heat exchanger, mixing elbow, bits and bobs $$$$$$$Admiral & Vice Admiral did 61 days (wow)- they have now cross the GS 8 times, the Bahamas banks 5 times and the crossing from Spanish Wells and the Abacos 2 times.
Favorite island — hard to say but Long Island and Egg Island stands out.
Weather — well this was a challenging year— fronts with gust to 35 (light gale) 7. We had 5 in the Bahamas and 2 back in the US. We had one that caught us in Norman Cay anchor with a lee shore (the beach) 315 yards away it topped out at 38knots. All the other we found hidding places or marina.
That sums it up. Cheers
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Truly Amazing has returned from the Jump on Jump off Cruise to the Bahamas as of May 22nd
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