Cold Duck
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jul 8, 2022
- Messages
- 423
- Vessel Name
- Cold Duck
- Vessel Make
- MS 350 Trawler, 1997
Last week I was sitting in a hot tub on the aft deck of a 120 passenger motor sailor anchored 200yds off a sandy beach of Bora Bora sipping some kind of rum concoction (or maybe 3). I know some of you would rather have a root canal than take a cruise ship, but my MS350 was not going to get here on her on bottom. I started to think what it would be like to have my MS350 anchored in this lagoon and cruise the area for a month or two. Thus started the Fantasy. If I could take my coastal cruiser and "plop" it down at any Island(s) Paradise, where would I go, and why? I started to think of some of the possible islands, starting in Europe we have Greek Islands, Azores, then Falklands, all of the Carribean, moving to Pacific, the PNW, Baja islands of the Sea of Cortez, Hawaii, further south Galapagos, Easter, Marqueseas, Tonga, Tahiti, Fiji, Cooks, Micronesia, Palau, Philippines, Viet Nam, Tialand, Indonesia and thousand more. Well, I had to come up with criteria for my Island Paradise, your criteria will probably be different, but mine starts off with Weather, a tropical clime, lots of Clear, warm water to anchor and cruise. It would have lush Green Island(s), off the beaten path with excellent Scuba locations. It would be in a geopolitically stable area (I'm too old to spend a year or two as a hostage or wake up at 2am being bordered by pirates). Only 1000s of Islands fit my criteria, easy to choose, right? So I put the question to the first mate. Without hesitation she picked the Islands of Palau, funny that was my first choice also. So that is my Fantasy Island group I would drop my MS350 for a month (or two, I am greedy) to cruise and enjoy, a place that otherwise, for a variety of reasons, my trawler would never see on her own bottom. So, what is your "Fantasy Island" and why would you pick it? With 1000s of islands out there, there should be some interesting choices. Obviously, you don't need to have a Mainship to play. You long rangers can play but let's not turn this into a discussion on how small a trawler can be to get there on its own bottom. As I said, for a variety of reasons, this will never happen for most TF members. Let's hear your favorite "Fantasy Islands".