We took our chances arriving without a reservation early in the day in Edgartown and got one of the last remaining moorings for a boat our size. 25 boats from the Eastern YC of Marblehead were here on their summer cruise. It was a lovely warm day with little portent of what was to come.

I got the growth on the hull below the waterline scrubbed with the scuba tank and Christine swam her laps. We tried Bill’s new concoction for a summer cocktail aboard the New Wave. Devilishly tasty.

Then the sky darkened and we heard thunder in the distance. These days everyone rushes to their favored electronic device and sure enough there was a big squall bearing down on us, like we needed some electrons to tell us! We hustled back to Calypso to batten all the hatches and cook the steak on the barbee. I snapped this photo just as the wind shifted 90 degrees, the flags stood out straight and the temperature dropped 10 degrees. It rained buckets for several hours during the night.