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Don't fall for the old boat yard "make work" line that you must cut
the shaft to replace a cutlas bearing on a boat with a strut, and pay up tp
$1,500.00 for the job! Call a mechanic or
go to a yard that
has the proper bearing removal/inserting tool, like a StrutPro (available
for less than the cost of a new shaft) and who will do the job during a short
haul, in less than an
hour!
Has your wind speed unit on the mast stopped rotating? Don't let the local rigger
talk you into letting him rebuild it - another "make work"
ploy. Save big bucks by just having him take it
down and then send it to the factory for repair yourself.
CATALINA 36 FLEET 5
Long Island Sound Catalina 36 Fleet 5 is a group of about 40 boats.
Membership is open to Catalina 36 owners. They sponsor rendezvous, on-land
meetings, and a summer cruise. For more information click on: http://www.catalina36.org/Fleet5/
Information on Catalina Yachts can be found at: http://www.catalinayachts.com/
LIST YOUR SAIL BOAT
FOR
SALE
HERE
Email us your desired twenty five word write up in MS Word
and we will put it up on SoundSail.com for up to one year at a cost of $50.00
Sailboat Prevail,
a CATALINA 36 was sold here.
LIST
YOUR BOAT SEARCH INFORMATION HERE
Email us your two line description of the boat you want to
buy in MS Word, and we will put it up on SoundSail.com for one year at a cost of
$50.00.
LIST
YOUR SAIL BOAT/YACHT SERVICES HERE – yards,
marinas, mechanics, riggers, surveyors, with a two lines of information for
$100.00 per year. You supply the text in an MS Word document file and we will
put it up on the site.
LIST
YOUR USED SAIL BOAT PARTS HERE
Email us a two line description in MS Word and we will put
it up on the site for one year at a cost of $50.00.
Tools: Available: SOLD!
1 - Strut-Pro cutlass bearing mechanical remover/inserting tool with tooling for
blackfish bearing - 1" diameter shaft by 4" long, used once to avoid yard "Make
Work", available @dealer discounted cost of $500.00
plus shipping. Email CaptainRon@soundSail.com
LIST
YOUR MARINE SUPPLIES HERE – marine stores and
other suppliers on items used by sailors, with a two lines of information for
$100.00 per year.
GOOD
PLACES TO GO
Watch Hill
,
RI
. The channel is well marked, there
is a large protected anchorage, a place to swim in the sound, dink & fuel
dock with ice, pump out boat, excellent restaurant, lots of shops and friendly
people. The first boat yard a short distance up the river on the right has fuel,
water & a diesel mechanic.
SAILORS
HORROR STORIES
Email us a horror story and we will list it here as a
public service announcement.
“Beware of suppliers of moorings who take your reservation but on
arrival tell you to drop the hook until they get back to you. When it happened
to us we soon discovered that we were not alone and many sail boats were
“given the hook” and joined us as the afternoon wore on. However, every
power boat that arrived and used the code words – we are coming to the dock
for fuel, and need space for the night – was immediately assigned dock space
or a mooring”.
“Don’t be intimidated by the launch operator who is selling moorings,
and has the gall to tell you to get off channel 78 because it’s a commercial
channel. Check your Sound Guide and you will see that 78 is a non-commercial
channel and that the launch driver and his shore station should be calling on
channel 9, then switching to another free COMMERCIAL channel. Needless to say we
always ignored his request and told him to get off 78! That usually keeps him
quiet for a few days.”
LETS BE THE FIRST TO PROPERLY IDENTIFY THE MAJOR SOURCE OF POLLUTION IN
THE LONG ISLAND SOUND!
Help us get out the correct information about
Long Island
Sound pollution. Boat US and others collect donations to educate boaters about
how not to pollute. We on the other hand are collecting information to educate
boaters about the many other possible sources of perhaps trillions of gallons of
pollution that enters the Sound each month. Lets face it the amount of pollution
discharged by all of the summer sail boaters combined is just a drop in the
bucket compared with other possible sources such as: commercial boats,
malfunctioning town or city sewage treatment plants, large estates with
malfunctioning septic systems, and industrial waste from the many old factory
buildings that dot the rivers feeding into the Sound. The GE plant and the
World
Trade
Center
(rumored to have had a pipe onto the river) on the
Hudson
and the
Oyster Bay
sewage plant are good examples. You may recall that a few years ago the
Oyster Bay
politicians were beating the drum about banning pleasure boaters because there
pollution was hurting the oyster beds, while at the same time the town was
spending big bucks expanding their sewage treatment plant! We wonder why? It’s
easy to bash the boaters because they don’t vote in town.
Many older towns have combination storm water and sewage pipe systems
which means that during heavy rain raw sewage bypasses the undersized treatment
plant and ends up in the sound. The same thing happens when there is a breakdown
or the plant is down for repairs! As an example of how big these numbers can be,
The New York Times reported on
May 27, 2003
that last March a sewage pipe burst at the Middlesex County Utilities
Authority’s plant and spilled 575,000,000 gallons of sewage into Raritan Bay
& Sandy Hook. As a result the Baymen’s Protective Association, the
cooperative that markets the clams from the area has lost most of its customers.
By comparison to sail boats, at say 20 gallons a weekend dump from the typical
cruising sail boat, every weekend of the sailing season of about 10 weeks per
year, means that this one spill equates to sewage from 2,875,000 sail boats per
weekend! Does anyone know the average number of cruising sail boats that are out
on the Sound on any one weekend?
Email us the location of these possible sources of pollution and we will
list them here as a reference for others who actually go out and test the water.
- Town of
Oyster Bay
, LI, NY sewage treatment plant.
- Black Rock Harbor,
Bridgeport
,
CT
sewage treatment plant
- Javitts Center, NYC discharges untreated sewage into
the Hudson River (Ocean County observer 4/13/04)
NJ to upgrade swim water standards (Asbury Park Press 3/14/04)
When fecal coliform colonies exceed 200 per 100 milliliters of water ( about
4 ounces) for two days in a row, NJ officials will ban swimming. What standard
does your local use?
The Spring Lake NJ Outfall (another term for discharge) is a problem after
heavy rains. They ban swimming when the plume from the outfall is seen moving
into a swimming area!
NJ will be required to adapt a new EPA recommended enterococci standard of
104 per 100 milliliters. Using this stand no more than 19 out of 1,000 swimmers,
or 1.9 percent would get acute gastroenteritis.
Suffolk County does not have any sewage plants discharging into the Ocean,
only the Bays & Sound. They use a different standard than NJ and you may want to
investigate what their acceptable limits are.
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