29 October 2016 | Georgia, USA
29 October 2016 | Georgia, USA
08 October 2016 | Brunswick, Georgia, USA
07 October 2016 | Hotel on West Side of Hwy I-95, Brunswick, GA, USA
07 October 2016 | Brunswick, Georgia, USA
06 October 2016 | Brunswick, Georgia, USA
05 October 2016 | Brunswick, Georgia, USA
04 October 2016 | Photo off Outer Banks near Cape Lookout, North Carolina.
27 September 2016 | Piankatank River, Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, USA
22 September 2016 | Current Position - Sassafras River, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, USA
16 September 2016 | Orient, Long Island, New York, USA
11 September 2016 | Ebenecook Harbor near Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA
07 September 2016 | Penobscot Bay, Maine, USA
05 September 2016 | Penobscot Bay, Maine, USA
04 September 2016 | North Haven, Vinalhaven, Maine, USA
28 August 2016 | Castine, Maine, USA
27 August 2016 | Belfast, Maine, USA
12 August 2016 | Mount Washington, New Hampshire, USA
06 August 2016 | Canada/USA Border Crossing
04 August 2016 | La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada
Learning Curve
03 June 2016 | Noyack Bay, nr Sag Harbor, Long Island, New York, USA
Vicki – 14c (57f), Overcast, Light Drizzle, Fog Patches
We’re heading out today under cold, overcast skies and drizzle from our quiet anchorage at Noyack Bay. In the distance I can barely see a fishing vessel as it motors into a fog bank on the Block Island Sound. The visibility is around ½ mile which I consider to be excellent when it comes to fog but it’s eerie seeing vessels one minute then next thing, they are gone. It is fairly rare to see fog back home in Australia but after 5 seasons (4 in the USA), we are more used to it. Thank goodness for radar!
We spent time in the quaint towns of Greenport and Sag Harbor in the last couple of days. While having lunch on the beach at Sag Harbor, we thought we saw Vanish motoring into the marina without us! However, it turned out to be another Marlow called Paws For Life which we had seen last year in Belfast, Maine. We briefly said hello from our dinghy but would love to catch up if we see them further north.
The season feels so different already with just Maynard and I. He taught our last couple of crew members how to operate the boat his way and now it’s my turn. When we owned Cruz Control, our Santa Cruz 52 sailing yacht, we worked wordlessly while handling the anchor or deploying the dinghy or raising sails or performing sail changes. We are now getting back to how we were for 15 years on Cruz. Maynard is an excellent teacher so it won’t be long before we are again the two person team that we were. It has taken Maynard a few years to learn what he knows about Vanish so I feel very lucky to be his student. Vanish is 82 feet LOA and Cruz Control was 52 feet but the techniques are basically the same. We each have certain jobs we perform and no doubt will improve upon this season.
Last night we studied our charts and found a new anchorage that we haven’t tried before in Rhode Island which looks very protected for the 25 kn SW-SE weather so this is where we are heading. This morning a tropical system called Invest 93L has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. It looks like we’ll have to keep our heads about us this year so that we’re not involved in any really bad weather. We’ve already experienced much more wind than other years as it seems that fronts are coming through every few days. Hopefully it will calm down soon and summer will begin.