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jschmucker2
Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 28
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:16 pm Post subject: Sailing sites around Provincetown, MA? |
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I'm spending a few days in Provincetown and am looking for some good launches on the bay side. Your own "sensor notes" and any other tips are much appreciated.
My girlfriend is sometimes upwind challenged, so having a downwind exit point for a given wind direction would be good. |
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rationalnational
Joined: 20 Apr 2001 Posts: 163
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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I would pm sailingjoe. I've heard he has a lot of close friends in P-town. he would know where all the "hot" spots are. |
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outcast
Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 2724
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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Personally, Wellfleet harbour would be worth the trip as it's very calm water and enclosed especially up by Great Island.
In P-town., the best spot would be right in the harbour if you can deal with boat traffic but the water will be colder and more current than wellfleet _________________ https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=zw0MgkO7VXw |
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Aranel
Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 78
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:12 am Post subject: |
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I think any of the beaches on the bay side will do fine. I've done many a sail from Corn Hill Beach in Truro, but the beach conditions are similar everywhere on the Bay. Watch the tide because low tide can get really low: it's ankle-deep wading for a couple hundred yards out. Not many windsurfers off the beach, but there are a few.
I did a long report about this at my blog:
http://hudsonwindsurfer.blogspot.com/2009/08/belated-cape-cod-vacation-report.html
Unfortunately there are no windsurfing pictures because I had to always go out alone. (My kids are pretty cute, though.) Hope this helps.
-Ian |
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PtownMike
Joined: 06 Oct 2015 Posts: 1
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:54 am Post subject: Ptown sailing sites |
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I sail Ptown harbor all the time. The best launch is the west end boat ramp. From there you can blast to Long Point if the prevailing SW blows. The boat ramp is at about 51 Commercial Street. You can also launch down at Beach Point, near the Truro/Ptown line, but it is very weedy.
If you get blown down wind from the boat ramp, pull in next to the Coast Guard pier, my cottage is on a pier there. Someone will help u out. |
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sailingjoe
Joined: 06 Aug 2008 Posts: 1087
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 4:35 am Post subject: |
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How about Race Pt.? I've always been curious about the windsurfing there. I used to land at the airport and walk into town. Of course it got it's name from yatch racing in the late 19th century. |
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pueno
Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 2807
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 7:48 am Post subject: |
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sailing wrote: | How about Race Pt.? I've always been curious about the windsurfing there. I used to land at the airport and walk into town. Of course it got it's name from yatch racing in the late 19th century. |
Brucie, Ptown's perfect for you.
Go, stay, don't come back.
BTW..... what's a "yatch"? Is it a Ptown yacht? |
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rationalnational
Joined: 20 Apr 2001 Posts: 163
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 10:33 am Post subject: |
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rationalnational wrote: | I would pm sailingjoe. I've heard he has a lot of close friends in P-town. he would know where all the "hot" spots are. |
Bruce why are you so full of shiite ? You have been visiting your boyfriends there for years.
And no Brucie, Race Point isn't named for "yacht" racing you stupid dweeb.
A Race is a fast moving current of water around or between land masses.
you are such a tool sometimes we don't know why we bother reminding you.
How many times have you committed suicide in your life ? Do it again it's not working |
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