From Knubble

It may be foggy, and it may be cold, and the water temperature might still be only 45 degrees, but it's home...and we're glad to be back. Yes, we're home...I have just been so busy trying to get everything back in order that I haven't had the chance to post.

We left Plymouth, MA Saturday morning and made our way to Portsmouth, NH. It started off as a very good day...the sun was shining, the autopilot was working , and the wind and seas were quite manageable. Until we got just off of Newburyport...that's when the biggest, blackest clouds covered the sky. We were anticipating a really severe thunderstorm by the looks of things. Turns out, we got some pretty heavy rain, the winds picked up to about 20 knots, and the lightning strikes weren't TOO close...so it was better than we expected.

Sunday the winds shifted to the northeast, and the forecast was for continually building winds and seas, so we left at 6AM, hoping to get home before it got ugly. It's about a 10 hour trip from Portsmouth to Robinhood, so there was plenty of time for things to go sour. We started off with light fog, but as the morning wore on the skies cleared. The seas were comfortable, and we were having a pretty nice motor-sail up the coast. We were sticking close to shore, hoping the waves would get knocked down as the land was blocking some of the wind. Everything was great until we were about 2.5 hours from home. That's when the fog dropped on us. And I mean "Good ole Maine fog". We had about 200 yard visibility until we were half way up the Sheepscot. Then, miraculously, the sun broke out, the fog lifted, and we had a beautiful ride up the Goose Rocks Passage to our slip.

It was a long ride home, but it's definitely worth the effort. We had a great time in the Abacos this winter. Our plan is to stay home next winter, then we'll head back down in the fall of 2012...so, until then