Less Fog, No Sun, But We Have Wind!
After being fogged in and becalmed in Provincetown for a couple days, we woke up early to the sound of wind howling in the rigging. Within about 10 minutes we were cast off the mooring and heading out of the breakwater toward Wood End light.
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| Foggy Provincetown |
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| Wood End Light |
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| We broke another sail slide in Buzzards Bay. Bob does his awl to fix it |
High Winds and Generous Waves
We knew we would be sailing pretty high into a Nor'easter to make it to Rockport and that the wind would be pretty strong. We ended up having the roughest, bounciest sail of the whole trip today in Mass Bay. Originally, the plan was to sail at about 335T to the anchorage at Sandy Bay in Rockport. After a few hours in the big waves built up in this north-east wind, we started thinking that Sandy Bay would not be a comfortable place to be tonight. Plans changed: let's just go to Manchester-by-the-Sea a day early.
We wisely chose to skip breakfast today.
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| Coffee for the Captain |
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| Whale sighting very near PTown between Wood End and Race Point |
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| Linda while she was still feeling chipper |
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| With her freshly done toes (red polish did not match Linda's developing green complexion) |
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| Bob in full fowl weather gear |
Not Feeling So Good / Fujin Feels Small Today
Both captains were starting to get a little green around the gills today. Linda especially fell pretty ill during the trip. These were probably the biggest waves we had sailed in yet in Fujin. Again, our 34 footer seemed very small today in these seas. But what could have easily been a 9-10 hour trip took a mere 7.5 hours.
Land Ho!
(that's not land... and stop calling me a Ho)
Today because of the visibility, we were totally out of sight of land for most of the day. When the north shore around Manchester came into view, we both felt a little better.
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| House Island near Manchester - Seas much calmer with Cape Ann providing some protection from the NE blow |
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| Entering Manchester Harbor - Always calm and inviting |
Manchester is one of our favorite harbors. It is incredibly protected (which sounded very appealing to us at the time out in those big waves). It is also the place we went for our very first overnight sail when we were members of
Boston Sailing Center. We were tied up on the mooring by about 14:30. We did the 45 or so miles from p-town in less than 8 hours! (This is really fast for a sailboat of our size!) It was quite a rough ride, however, and we both crashed and took a three hour nap before heading in to town.
Manchester-by-the-Seas has a handful of restaurants and shops. We ended up at a new mexican place that offers some traditional style Mexican dishes (in addition to the more common American Tex-Mex burritos and enchiladas):
La Casa De Luis. Very attentive staff and conscientious owner. The sign below is from outside Cala's (another recommended restaurant that we have visited on past trips).
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| Cala's (we've visited on prior trips) |
We enjoyed a walk around the town after dinner. Bob seemed in the mood to bar hop (among the four or so choices in this sleepy town) but Linda had still not bounced back from being sea sick all day and was enjoying nursing club soda.
Friends Expected Tomorrow
We will site tight and relax here for another day/night as we come to the end of our sailing trip. Friday we look forward to meeting up with our good sailing friends, Yolande and Phill, when they sail up to Manchester from Boston. You can check out some of their adventures on Prairie Gold:
haydongold.blogspot.com/
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