A pleasant day’s sail today, at least compared with
yesterday. The forecast was for westerly
winds, and so we opted to head for Mt. Sinai Harbor on the New York side of
long Island Sound. Although further than
we had planned, with westerly winds we had a hope of fetching our destination
on one tack – a big advantage over tacking back and forth. Of course, it didn’t quite work out like
that. We had one long leg that took us
to the NY coast, and then we had to start tacking. At least we were only being bounced around a
little by the infamous Long Island Sound chop.
Towards the end of the trip, the winds dropped and we ended up motor
sailing. Then, 2 ½ miles from our
destination, the wind suddenly died, as much as to say, “you don’t need me
anymore”. Well another hour’s worth
would have been nice.
We picked up a mooring in this very crowded harbor, 40 57.74N 073 02.40W, and cleaned up the
boat, just before a shower which provided a very nice rainbow.
We took the launch ashore for a walk on the beach. At 6pm in October there were still several people
on the beach – mostly swimmers about to pack up. Not too surprising since we noticed on our
boat instruments that the water temperature was 80°F and it was a very warm and
humid day.
We returned to the boat and Teresa served Fettuccini Alfredo
with roasted chicken breast. Very
impressive - oh wait, it was warmed up leftovers from a meal out before we left
Westerly. Still very scrumptious though!
Ships Log: 6,743.9, Trip: 35.0, Trip Total: 67.7
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