Personally, I would not consider a raft for that trip - if you are able to plan based on weather rather than a fixed schedule, know and have maintained your boat well and the dinghy is inflated, not rolled up in a locker somewhere. A stop in NYC would mean coastal sailing all the way.
+1 on jacklines, harnesses and life jackets. You may also want to check sleeping arrangements (lee cloths) if you don't sail overnight often and extra diesel in case of no wind. I made that trip a few years back (not my boat) and we entered Great Salt Pond with the dinghy strapped to the quarter as a tug... Tim Mojito C&C 35-3 Branford, CT On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > An EPIRB is nice, but a PLB is certainly good enough to get help. > > As for the raft – if it were a race you would need one. The first time I > did that route our “raft” was a Dyer dinghy on the cabin top. This was in > 1976 when safety was not really a thing like it is now. We would have been > totally f’d if the boat had sunk in anything but flat calm. > > I would think through the following: > > 1. Fire > > 2. Extreme weather > > 3. Getting run over > > 4. Structural failure/massive leak > > > > Think about how well the dinghy would do for these problems. I think #2 is > not real likely, but 1 and 3 would not be good unless the dinghy was ready > to go. > > > > Joe Della Barba > > Coquina > > > > *From:* CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] *On Behalf Of *Daniel > Sheer via CnC-List > *Sent:* Thursday, March 12, 2015 2:44 PM > *To:* Cnc-list CNC Boat Owners > *Subject:* Stus-List Appropriate safety gear for a trip to Boston > > > > Advice please. I'm taklng Pegathy from Baltimore to Boston and back in > June. I've got an 8 foot inflatable, a gps based plb (McMurdo FastFind > 210), and a new VHF with an AIS receiver. The only offshore planned is from > Cape May to Block Island. Everything else will be close to shore. Do I need > to bother with a life raft and/or a real epirb? > > > > Dan Sheer > > Pegathy LF 38 > > Rock Creek off the Patapsco > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Email address: > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > To change your list preferences, including unsubscribing -- go to the > bottom of page at: > http://cnc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/cnc-list_cnc-list.com > > >
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