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
Thunderfog
12 September 2015 | Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, USA
Vicki – Weather: Air 20 C/68 F, Sea 22.5 C/72 F, Clear
The trip down from Boston to the east end of the Cape Cod Canal was uneventful with calm seas. The Canal runs in a SW to NE direction. The wind was calm until we approached the entrance. We soon found that the wind was funnelling down the Canal at 25 kn from the SW. We noticed a flock of around 7,000 or more white-throated swifts swooping en masse as they caught insects in the air in the lee of the trees near the beach. In May this year a North Atlantic Right Whale was spotted by a pedestrian early in the morning happily swimming the 7 mile length of the canal at its own pace. The Canal was closed for 45 minutes until it exited to join a pod of 40 other whales waiting out to sea. It will be interesting to see if it now chooses this route every year on its annual migration.
We anchored at Mattapoisett Harbor off Buzzards Bay, just south of the Canal. In the morning we awoke to dense fog and as we picked our way past fishing vessels, stray lobster buoys and channel markers, we heard loud rumbling in the distance; our first ever thunderfog! Of course, we couldn't see anything with our eyes, but the radar showed line after line of approaching storms. My SkyScan lightning detector was busy showing a rainbow of colours telling us the distance to each strike from 40 to less than 3 miles away. As the rain began to hit us, the fog lifted slightly so that we had around 500 meters of visibility. As the rain increased, the fog continued to lift but we were still experiencing the same low visibility due to the amount of rain. This was some of the heaviest rain we've seen while at sea on Vanish.
We arrived at Orient, New York on the NE end of Long Island where we stayed for a few days. We knew Sag Harbour in the Hamptons had a marina for megayachts and superyachts so we took the dinghy 10 miles to town to check it all out. Other than seeing a BMW mini on the top deck of a megayacht instead of the usual dinghy, we found it wasn't our kind of town so we then went over to Greenport in the dinghy to the Mitchell Marina. We loved Greenport and would happily spend more time there. In fact, we felt we could easily have spent a few weeks in the Great Peconic Bay, Noyack Bay and Shelter Island Sound area on Long Island. Summer In New York and Maine on a boat, any boat, is a privilege and something we appreciate beyond words.
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