In case any one was wondering the last place we stayed was in Newport RI. This has to be the sailing capital of the US. There were tons of beautiful sailboats everywhere. We watched 12 meter yachts racing and just some gorgeous yachts at anchor.
   We fueled up (6gal)and took on water for the tanks and then departed around 9:15. There was very little wind if any, so we resigned ourselves to motoring. About 10 mile out we were passed by a Nonsuch with his sails up and so I rolled out the jenny. What a difference!! We were going along at 4 knots and being bounced all around by the swells and then boom away we went at 5.5 knots. With  the sails full it really made the boat behave better. We arrived in Cutty Hunk at 3:30.
    This is the last of the Elizabethan Island chain and is a real gem. There are cars but there is only like 2 miles of road on the island. everyone drives around in golf carts or ATV's. We met a guy from Randolf VT who's family has a house on the island.
    We got out and walked around and hiked up to a look out with a beautiful 360 view. We had been there before with the kids. This is an old gun emplacement left over from WW 2 to keep a lookout f

or German U boats.
   When we got back to the boat I saw that Jim H. in his boat Xena had arrived. He is bringing his boat to Maine also and he is from Vermont.

Friday June 24th  We left around 8:30 and entered Buzzard's Bay. the wind was NE 10-15 which was right where we wanted to go. We ended up beating all day into the wind. It really reminded us of lake Champlain. Beating into the short steep waves because of the tide reminded us of heading to Valcour. It was a beautiful day though and the wind was perfect. Once the tide changed the waves got much smaller. Its really incredible the color of the water. Its this intense emerald green.
   We tried tacking for a mile on either side of the rhumb line and that kept us moving pretty good. On some tacks in the morning we got a good boost from the tide but on the other tack not so much. anyway we did 27.3 nm in 6.5 hours to go 14 nm. Finally at Cleveland Ledge ( the control point for the Cape Cod Canal) we took down the sails and started motoring. Of course this was directly against the full ebb tide so we crawled to a mere 2 kts over the ground. anyway we finally got into Onset marine and picked up a mooring. Jim H pulled in right behind us. We are going to spend an extra day here.