Well, I was wondering if it would really happen.
We got things more or less straightened out for work to begin on the house, loaded up Boheme and we’re on our way south. Stress levels have reached 11, and it was leave or explode.
We left our dock yesterday for the harbor, woke at 4, off the [...]
Irene passed overhead, with a day of high wind (but little rain) in the SW quadrant. Then we got the sun.
After some cleanup in the house (a lot more to come), we decided to take the Pudgy off Bohème and have a look. Time is limited because, even though there is much to do, it [...]
Sailing season is once again interrupted by a storm. Irene is headed up the coast, and the media hype puts it to be “the storm of a lifetime”. I’m skeptical.
We’ve moved Bohème to the pond, where she should be nice and snug. The Pudgy (still in need of a name) is still over at the [...]
While on our cruise, we twice encountered this odd little boat.
In Scituate, we saw it tied to the dinghy dock and wondered, “what is that odd little boat”? Later we saw two substantial fellows step into the boat and walk around (in the rather small space of a dinghy), then motor off. It surely did [...]
Gee. I just looked at the site and see that I haven’t even finished the cruise.
Well, after Shelter Island, we spend a night at in Milford at the Yacht Club. The club restaurant was closed, and it rained like crazy, so there isn’t that much to say about the stay other than that we had [...]
Talk about sparse posting… We are now just into the lower bay on our way home. Early start from Port Washington, which we got to via Milford, Northport and Oyster Bay. We really poked our way down the sound.
Not much wind, a bit of rain, and a generally unspectacular end to a lazy cruise. Still, [...]
Sorry for the sparse updates this summer. I did say we were taking it easy.
After Marion, we spent a night at Cuttyhunk, then over to Newport. The trip to Newport would probably have been nice, but I spent most of the time below, on line and on the phone dealing with a disaster back at [...]
Well, the hopes for better weather in Cape Cod Bay just didn’t pan out. Winds were lighter than expected, and we had rain pretty much every night. We didn’t need to go to Maine to be cold… the weather was rather cool most of the time. Better than sweltering back home…
So, back through the canal, [...]
Today, the weather looked pretty good. No wind to speak of, no fog, we’re set to leave towards the canal.
Rounding East Chop, things changed a bit. Twenty two knot breeze, two foot chop, spray. Great.
Add to that a passage through Woods Hole agains a 4 knot current and 18 knot breeze, and it makes for [...]
We were scheduled to leave today for the canal, but although it is pretty calm (and very foggy) here in Edgartown, it is blowing 15-20 from the SW outside, with the promise to increase to 20-25.
We’d be sheltered by the land for most of the trip, but would have a bumpy crossing of Vineyard Sound [...]