how far is claudios from the mouth of the river,

Innerage it is about 15 miles, it is only 8 miles fro the ct river to plum gut. Plum gut is the only tough part it is not long but can get nasty, I used go through with my 22' checkmate. Pick your day and you will be fine. Once you turn to the inside of LI it is protected and relatively flat all the way to Claudios

Not sure Im going on Sunday, everyone is either broken or has plans for Fathers day. Its a big deal for me to go there so I think Ill wait for when LOTS of us can go together.........Justin, Im not positive about this yet, but I will let you know incase you want to run over with someone!

agreed. you can make it on most days. just have to keep an eye on the weather.

hmmm...i guess we can hope for a run on saturday? anyone interested in that?

Brian, as long as the wind stays down (check the forecast carefully) you'll be fine. As stated, Plum Gut can get nasty if the wind and tide are working against you. It's only about a 3/4 mile area or so (guessing) you need to worry about... but I've wondered if I was going to be meeting my maker coming through there on a bad day in a 18' boat and it wasn't a good feeling. As a general rule, I look at the conditions coming out of the mouth of the CT river and then in my mind double the size of the water and that's typically what can/will be ahead in the Gut. Again, just watch the wind as it can kick up in the afternoon and make the return trip a handful.

I'm hoping to get everything back to put the boat back together by the end of the weekend, so I'm likely out until the weekend of 6/25-6/26 and even then I have plans I cant get out of for 6/25. :(

Although, I better be out for the week/weekend of 7/1!!!

damn scot...for anyone interested we will be in Naragansette Bay RI the entire week of 4th of July. Probably newport, bristol, block island, and providence areas. Anyone down for that?

I'll be in Block for that weekend...probably Newport as well, depends on the day...

You should run to Block with me Scott...maybe we can get Frank in for a day :)

Justin/Pat,

If I get everything back together and TESTED, I might be interested in swinging up there as I'll be off. We'll see. I just want to make sure everything is all set before heading out of state, if you know what I mean.