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Pat Anderson

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OK, here is the program. Cruise Inside Passage to SE Alaska. Pat and Patty take off from Bellingham or Blaine more or less the last week or ten days in June 2006, with a friend who has made the cruise before, headed for Meyers Chuck, where our friend has a relative. Anchor every night, not trying to cover huge distances, just get there in time for the Fourth of July and enjoy the scenery. Pat and Patty and friend fly back (from Ketchikan? Or from where?), and somebody, oh let's just assume a certain Brat couple from Alexandria, VA, fly IN to SE Alaska to enjoy the Fourth with us and then cruise the boat back to Bellingham or Blaine, at whatever pace suits them...Suggestions? Must see/do? Realistic time frame? Any other boats up for the trip?
 
Pat... You are killing me..... Yes, I am interested in this trip too. Sherryl does not retire until Aug07 or 08....but she can certainly hop a jet. We took an inside passage cruise years ago and to date was and still is one of my favorite ones....of about 8 or 9 cruises. I bet Halcyon would like this too, and I know they have cruised the waters before too. :thup It takes me about a week to get what ever boat I have up there cross country... but for sure I am interested. See you in a couple of days.
Byrdman
 
Ok Pat there ya go!! Laurie and I were talking last might about clearing our vacation calender for 2006.. We don't want to do any big projects i.e. go to Great Britain, a PrincessCruise,or Tall Ships deals that cost big $ or lots of vacation time burned up.
We want to spend more time with our C-Dory Friends Cruising next year. And because I may end up as a Rear-Commodore at TOA, that will take some time allotments too.
That being said now YOU come up with a great plan for a Fly-Cruise!! We are going to work on this and am looking forward to discussing it!
 
CRUISE WITH DAYDREAM!! Get your name on the list, now, space is going fast ...

We need a sign-up page, Mike -- we'll log on right after Robbi ... just how many folks can a CD 25 carry?? Maybe she can pull a barge and the excess can sit in their boats, on their trailers, on the barge ... like those RV folks do on the Mississippi ...
 
The first option to cruise Daydream south belongs to Tom and Kathy Callahan, and it is under serious consideration in Alexandria, as I understand it!

Another option for the return trip would be to take the Alaska State Ferry from Ketchikan to Bellingham as a foot passenger...does anybody know how long that takes or how much it costs?
 
This is the old adage about good deeds coming back to you ten-fold. This is a wonderful possibility for summer 2006. It is also the germ of a great idea that I hadn't even considered when we offered the Otter to Pat and Patty for a Chesapeake cruise: C-Dory "Buddies" who live in different parts of the country, exchanging cruising time on their boats. (To all you folks drooling about this Daydream trip: Go find your own buddy! We got dibs!) But seriously, what a great concept. It allows the "traveler" to cruise in distant waters without having to make a long, long trailer trip, and it allows the "local" to do a long one-way trip and know that his boat will be returned by a careful pilot with lots of experience on C-Dorys. For those of us with limited vacation time, that is a huge bonus. (Of course, this means that we may just have to upgrade to a 25-footer in the interest of parity with our buddy!)

The atlas and the calendar are out in the Callahan home. Hope we can make this a reality!

Cheers,
 
Pat

This is a trip that we have been talking seriously about for 2006. We would be up for a two month or longer voyage. New TC255 coming whenever they get to #4. We would cruise both directions. Will follow this thred with special interest. Always hoped to be somewhere memorable when I turned 60. This would be as good as it gets.

Brent and Dixie
Cygnet
 
AK ferry between Ketchikan and Bellingham takes about 2 1/2 days, I think. You would leave on a Wednesday and arrive on a Friday or something like that. Passenger only, no stateroom, is $210 this year for summer fares. I have been looking into taking my kids up on the ferry, with a vehicle, and driving back on the ALCAN.

Julie
 
Tom and Kathy, You better take them up on this. :smilep A cruise of a lifetime, and you two are (in Tom's words) the "studs" to do it!!! A good deed comes back around. Hope that you can put a plan together.

Pat and Patti, You are too cool! Robbi
 
Tom, In talking with Laurie about this idea, she first thought "someone bringing back our boat?, "without us?" Then she remebered that this is the C-Brat Family and that as long as the boats kind of stick together on the return trip, it might be a pretty good idea Pat And Patty came up with... So looks like if you can pass the Tom on Otter test and Pat's test,and Laurie's test we would be up for this idea too...now taking applications hehheh
 
OK, lets bring this back up to the top!

Slight change of dates, cruise up to SE Alaska will be earlier in June due to Callahans' need to be back in VA by a certain date in July for a wedding or some such foolishness...anyway, we are flexible, whatever dates it takes to make it work. I get to pick my vacation dates, dang it!

Now, I don't know about who else is doing this one way or both ways, but how about people who want to be "Boat Buddies" for this gig to Alaska chiming in here...Who of our Left Coast buds want to run up? Trip up is now looking like the departure the second week in June 2006, two weeks.

Equally important, who of our Right Coast / mid-continent buds wants to cruise a Left Coast bud's C-Dory back down? Dun and Becky on Cresent Girl? George and Penny on Wanderer? Tom on Sally's Sister? TJ and Jen on C's the Day? John and Liz on Lizzy Ann? Nick and Marcia on Valkyrie? I don't want to slight any of my Eastern Shore friends, but I was mostly asleep as the pix attest, so please forgive me if I didn't mention your name...My point is, hey, would you like to be half of some "Boat Buddy" team to bring a C-Dory back from SE Alaska to Puget Sound?

This has the potential to be the coolest CBGT ever, we are doing it even if it is only us, but imagine doing this cruise with a little group of your new best friends! If you can't get excited about this, you ought to go buy a Bayliner or something!
 
I will eventually make this trip. I took the ferry many times in the late 70's and through the 80's. 48 hours from Seattle to Petersburg, including the stops at Ketchikan and Wrangell. Chop off an hour or two since they leave from Bellingham now. $210 is the going rate to Ketchikan, $320 to go all of the way to Skagway. Next year may be too early for me...

here is a link to the AK Marine HWY fares, etc:

http://www.dot.state.ak.us/amhs/schedre ... 5fares.htm
 
WOW! How did I miss this thread? :shock: What a great idea. Kind of like Wife (or husband) swapping...only with C-Dorys. Does your boat have to have a female (or male) name???? OK, I'd better stop before I get in trouble.

Seriously, I'm interested. Always wanted to do that trip, but the thought of 3000+ miles of asphalt isn't appealing. I'll have to get out the thinking cap, and the charts, and cogitate a bit. :idea:

GREAT IDEA! Then you left coasters could try some New England hospitality as well.

Dun (CTYankee)
 
Pat and Patty,

I have this thread marked for watching.

We're thinking that we may??? be out in the NW next summer. Penny and I are looking into cruising some of the inside passage.
 
Katy and I want to go. All we need is a boat. It's a little far out on the calendar to carve in stone, but we are filing our good intentions.

Best regards,
Scaley
 
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