Yesterday Bill started feeling like his throat was getting sore. We have all kinds of remedies for all kinds of problems on board so we started with those. We even entertained some cruisers we knew who had anchored next to us yesterday afternoon. While they were on board the harbormaster came by and told us we were anchored outside the anchorage and we would have to move. Bill tried to get him to say we could stay there since we were leaving in the morning but it didn’t work. After our guests left we re-anchored, just a few feet further up than we originally were.

This morning Bill wasn’t feeling any better. How fortunate we were to be anchored very close to a drug store. We got in the dinghy and went to buy out the sore throat section of Walgreens, along with some comfort food. On our way to the dinghy dock Bill noticed our anchor float, the one we use to mark where the anchor is in busy harbors, was missing. We were hoping maybe someone hit it and it broke off and floated away. Since it was low tide the only other option was that it was under the huge fishing boat anchored in front of us. We tried not to think about it while we were on shore. On the way back the anchor float reappeared, extremely close to the huge fishing boat. Uh oh… We got all ready to go and then Bill saw that the anchor float was now on the other side of the fishing boat. We better get rolling before it goes back under the boat. I am generally on the wheel while we pull the anchor up. I’ve gotten pretty good at driving the boat even in tight places, I was a bit nervous here though. In the end we got to within a foot of the fishing boat before the anchor came up and I could veer away from it. Just a little bit of excitement to start our sailing day.

Bill was feeling even worse by then so we decided that, even though it was probably a decent sailing day, we would motor to Scituate. Bill stayed below most of the time, trying to rest. It was an easy trip, even though the water was a bit lumpy. We went by Boston as you can see, if you look really hard, over my right shoulder in the picture above. OK, so we didn’t go by very close.

Now we are in Scituate, Massachusetts. We are on a mooring but that doesn’t mean it’s very calm. The mooring does come with launch service though. That means no dinghy for a couple of days. We will stay here tomorrow night too. We are having guests come tomorrow, a couple of women we met on Cadillac Mountain in Maine. Bill is still not feeling very well but luckily there is a drug store right at the dock here too. We’ve already gone and bought even more sore throat remedies. Let’s hope one of them works!