Heading South
September 1, 2013
So, here we are at the west end of Long Island Sound. We were here in late June going the other way, basically east. It was a wonderful experience sailing to through New England, especially during the hot days back home.
Long Island Sound’s western terminus is the Throng’s Neck Bridge a few miles from this place. In the next day or so, we will sail under that bridge into the East River of New York City and down to Sandy Hook, NJ. That marks the point where we basically turn south. We are only a few hundred miles from where Why Knot will spend the winter. While we have had a great time the last four months, we look forward to seeing friends and family back home. Strange as it is, we have yet to see much of the Chesapeake Bay. There is much to see there and we look forward to coming back to sail more of the Bay and perhaps to sail back to New England next year.
Some of our sailing friends will sail farther south and at least one crew is bound for the warm Caribbean Sea for the winter. We met Coral Bay whose crew lives only 12 miles from our home in Texas. The crew of The Pearl sail out of Port Lavaca about 50 miles from our home port and near where I spent some of my youth. We met a fellow from Austin, about 35 miles from our home. The Texas count is not big but what a great thing to meet them in Maine.
We have a few thousand photo to share with our friends and family back home. We promise to break up the slide shown into three hour presentations complete with wild tales. I think about six will do it.