Falll River to Nantucket July 29 2011

renowned scientist and explorer, Alexander Agassiz home in Newport R.I. - now a B & B castel Hill Inn.

Dan, Brian, and Nick meet David in Waterville have a swim in the eye burning pool. Then in the morning it is on to LL Bean for breakfast since it is NEVER closed.

These moose were found dead with locked horns and refurbished with other skins.

then on to Portland to pick up some charts . Then we went to West Marine in Portsmouth NH to get some electronic charts. THen it was on the Boston to get Marco at the south station arriving from London via NYC.. Next onward to Somerset and the boat arriving at 13:30. Dan and David provision and we get set to leave by sunset.

We leave J&J marine in Somerset MA at 6pm to get to the bridge after the down time for traffic.

out past battleship Cove and the USS Massachusetts and under the route Mount Hope span bridge at night. Impressive light dislay. Then down the coast to anchor at Portsmouth RI for the night. Strange clicking sound some of them at the hull.

Marco at the helm the next morning at sunrise heading to Newport. When we got there with no wind full sails we finally got a breeze so I decided to make time and continue on the Cutty Hunk.

out past Nathaniel Bowditch's house all boaters should read his biography "Carry on Mr. Bowditch" error --- This is renowned scientist and explorer, Alexander Agassiz's home but stil read about bowditch.

this is the a lighthouse at entrance to Narraganset bay by Castle Hill Inn

Dan with his photo ops.

we made it to gay head and the entrance to . The wind was too light after 9AM to make it to Cutty Hunk in time for any space. Plus I hit a fishing net fist time I had seen one. Took 15 minutes to dislodge the net . Then a while to fix the port prop as the electric motor drive belt had loosened, We were going to go into Menemsha bay but again we got there too late because it took 1 hour to take down the screecher. Once again we could not take it down normally. This is the third time (always the second time the sail is raised) the halyard jams at the top. This time we had to send Nick up the mast and cut the halyard free dropping the sail into the water. By the time we were done it was past sunset and too late to motor into the cove so we anchored 100 yds off the beach inside Gay Head and were serenaded by the clickers again. Joe Cooper from hood sails says we need a swivel at the bitter end to prevent this from happening. Too bad this was never done since 2006 when I first got the sail. Had this jammed in October in 50 knots of wind I think the mast would have come down. It was blowing 15-18 and 75 degrees this time and that was rough enough with Nick was up there. At 40 it would have been very tough and dangerous. We would have cut the halyard at the winch instead of at teh top of the mast as we did this time.

The next morning were off up the Elizabeth channel around Falmouth to Oak Bluff for provisioning. Dan, Brian and Marco provisioned while Nick and I tanked up the diesel and practiced maneuvers in the harbor. Then we picked them up at the town dock. Marge and Steve had company and could not visit . We missed some good wind and should have continued to Nantucket would have arrived at 2Pm but as it turned out with no wind we arrived at 7pm.
This is Dan checking out Chappaquiddick. Wind was down to 4 k.

No wind motoring at 4 K.

The entrance at sunset to Nantucket was a sight with boats coming out for a sunset cruise like this gaff rig and Belle.

Brandt point light at the entrance to Nantucket harbor.

This gal was on Windigo, Newport, RI with others. I got several pics and they gave me an email address which I lost so if anyone knows this boat, let me know the contact info. There is another older boat named Windigo that is in Newport and they are the only oneslisted on facebook or google search. No connection between boats as i got an email back from the other Windigo.