So I probably made an error by mentioning that it was calm and essentially nothing to report. Apparently that’s a good way to bring Ida as well as a bit of mayhem in our general direction.. or so it seems. So here’s the story, as we came into Port Jefferson we broke a transmission control…

Our major excitement last night was coming in to a dock we anticipated was like a “normal” dock only to find it was more like a dock for a large ferry, no decking floating on the water to jump to and tie up at, it was more like a pier for a commercial boat. Tying…

Well it just goes to show you. You never can tell… Yesterday when we left Newport it was a gorgeous day, nice sunny overhead, seemingly an easy wind. In fact going out of the harbor proper we ran across a girl’s school doing laser sailboat races. The picture included shows the boat race with the…

We’ve been out of touch for a couple of days due to the spotty nature of the internet service but now seem to have a more stable connection…at least for the moment.  It’s funny how so many places advertise that they have wi fi but the advertisement (in the form of a small icon in…

We were able to drop the mooring in Falmouth and although we left late (departure at about 10:20 we made it to Isle of Shoals anyway. Thank goodness we had a full moon since our transit time was just over 9 hours and it was completely dark by the time we got there. Isle of…