Well, to update you on our whereabouts we are now on Nantucket Island off of Cape Cod. Rick and I left St John USVI’s on Friday May 3 and did 3 overnights (4 hours shift intervals) just the two of us and arrived on the Turks and Caicos on Monday morning, May 6th. From there we motored sailed through the Bahamas for 3 more nights and arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Friday May 10th.

While in Fort Lauderdale we had the boat pulled out of the water to repair a prop that had been damaged. We were also honored to have Lindsay fly down to help us sail up to the Cape. We more than welcomed the extra help plus the excellent company. Once we left Florida on May 27th, we were originally heading for Charleston SC but they did not have any open slips or moorings and the weather looked good so we continued on to Southport NC. We made really good time and arrived on Wednesday May 29th at around noon. We stayed at the Southport Marina, which turned out to be the nicest marina we have ever stayed at. It was great to dine on land and sleep a whole night.

On Thursday May 30th we had a good weather window and headed directly for Nantucket Island. The winds were low so we motored sailed and it took us 3 night and 4 days (arriving June 2nd). It was beautiful weather until about 5 miles outside of Nantucket Harbor at which time the winds picked up to around 35-40 knots right on our nose. It was very hard to see the channel into the harbor but we made it. Because of the wind and current we had a bit of a time getting into the marina slip at the Boat Basin but finally made it without hitting anything. Whew!

We are still on Nantucket today June 4th planning on leaving tomorrow for Provincetown, MA. It should take us about 8-10 hours depending on the wind. By tomorrow night we will be in Ptown Harbor where we will stay for the summer.

As a side note we are happy to say will be staying on our boat much more this summer than last summer as we sold our house on the Cape in N. Truro this spring.