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Okay so the weather forecast for my are looks terrible for the weekend, anyone ever have this predicament. Or boat is a 2hr drive and there is a 40% chance ofrain for Saturday and 60% for Sunday and the temps are down. we have other things at the marina we can do but we haven't spent a weekend at home in 4 weeks!!!
What does everyone else do?

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2001 328 Vista "Nauta Dream 2"
AB Inflatable 10AL "Little Dreamer"
2000 248 Vista
1997 225 Sundowner


Mike

With the bowrider we stay at home and find other things to do. With small kids, the weather has to be good. When we had our cruiser we would head our regardless. If the weather was bad we could always find other things to do in the area and heading to the boat each weekend was a mini vacation to us.

We are going.........

Wife has a hair appointment after work, so we will leave London about 8pm this evening, stop at a video store in route to boat and grab a DVD movie for my 9 year son and my wife and then arrive at boat before 10pm. The movies help put some time in when the weather is crappy. Nice way to spend some relaxing time on the boat, plus my wife brings her ipad and my son has his ipod to play with. We also get about 12 TV stations that come in reasonably well if it takes a while for the weather to improve.

Hope the weather is alright to at least get a short boat ride in on Sunday before our 1 1/2 hour drive back home.

Mike.

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Current Boat
- 2001 Four Winns 328 Vista "Hour Decision"
- 2010 310 Mercury Inflatable

Previous Boats
- 30' Doral Prestancia
- 25' Doral Citation

I'm fortunate to live 15 minutes from our marina, so to go or not to go is never an issue...for me anyway. I'd much rather spend the day on the docks with foul weather and great friends than kick around at home!

I did purchase a roku for the boat. Nifty little device that lets me stream netflix and hbo go to our TV. My wife and I sat through about 3 hours of rain last Saturday watching netflix!!

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Michael Bova


"Swept Aweigh"
2003 Four Winns 328 Vista

Previous Boat
2003 Crownline 230CCR

Another nice device for those rainy days at the marina (if you have WiFi) is a slingbox. Since you are paying for TV at home , why not have everything you pay for at the boat too ! A neighbor at our former marina had one, and we watched sports and movies on it several times when it was not worth taking the boats out.

http://www.slingbox.com/go/slingbox

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One of 4 Previous (Sold) Boats:
2000 Four Winns 268 Vista

Current Boat: 2004 Chaparral 235 ssi cuddy

Yes we have wifi at our marina, we also have a playbook and you can stream everything off it and I bought a cord to hook it up to the tv I installed.

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2001 328 Vista "Nauta Dream 2"
AB Inflatable 10AL "Little Dreamer"
2000 248 Vista
1997 225 Sundowner


Mike

What? Are you afraid your boat is going to get wet?

Sorry, I couldn't resist. It's one of my favorite sayings when talking to my fellow boaters about the chances of us hitting the water when inclimate weather is forecast.

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2005 FW Horizon 250
8.1L VP DP

We always go, a bad weekend away is better than a boring weekend at home, it's a short season.

Nope not afraid of getting wet it is the 3 and 4yr old I need to keep occupied. We have a dock sale on Saturday and safety checks after so will occupy some time... We have a covered slip it is not bad when it rains. We can still sit on the dock and be dry

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2001 328 Vista "Nauta Dream 2"
AB Inflatable 10AL "Little Dreamer"
2000 248 Vista
1997 225 Sundowner


Mike

Good day to go visit the parents.

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Current Boat: 2000 Four Winns 298 Vista
Previous Boat: 2000 Carver 406MY

We go! We belong to a yacht club & there is always something going on. The club house has a bar that serves good food. Music, at times a DJ, or we watch what ever game is on. Worst case, on the boat.

I am working in my office looking at Boston Harbor getting heavy rain from my window...... I am ok with to build up a working weekend days so we can take days out on good weather day......

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08 H260 VP 8.1Gi DP.....Previous
2013 Crownline E6 Merc 8.2MAG BIIIX, DTS/SC

GO! There is no such thing as a bad day at the lake. Even if all you do is hang around with your slip neighbors and relax, its better than being at home (while wishing you went to the marina).

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Current Boat:
2004 Sea Ray 320 Sundancer "Nauti Luvin'"

Previous Boats:
1999 298 Vista "Seas The Day"
2008 H200SS "Nauti Luv"
2006 Tahoe Q4

If you look at Logan, in the back ground you will see a striped water tower. I am at the yacht club just to the left of that. It also depends how high you are too! We did plan to go up the Charles with 8 other boaters today. To visit the Newton club, but it was cancelled. Going though the locks is a fun, but the RR bridge is a pain to wait for.

I love to see the sail boaters faces when we go up. We just do head way speed, but some of them panic and don't know what to do.

Mike, as you know my boat is just a few miles south of yours. With the crappy weather and a covered slip, I was floating at 5 PM Friday. It's a no brainer. The wifey was away working all weekend and the marina was almost deserted. Keystone Light and I had a great weekend

On a side note, one of my dock neighbours has a cottage on Thorah Island. The recently overhauled island harbour was all but destroyed from the storm. All of the floating docks were ripped away and a lot of damage to all of the boats.

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07 Azure AZ200,
Previous boat,
95 278 Vista,
And a lot of others.

Ontario, Canada