We sat in Onset all day. It was another beautiful day and windless day. We walked into town and did some grocery shopping. I took the dinghy out for a nice sail. It was a nice quiet and relaxing day.

June 26th Sunday  We left Onset at 8:00 to catch the tide in the canal. We shot through the canal like a watermelon seed between your fingers. We exited around 9:45 and headed for Province town. It was pretty flat and no wind so we ended up just motoring across the bay. We tried to sail for a little while but there was not enough wind. We did have the jenny out which helped and added a couple of knots to our speed. The harbor was very busy as we wound our way through to a mooring.
   The town was pandemonium, there were people of all sorts just streaming around with bike walking and mopeds and cars!! There are tons of eclectic shops and restaurants. It was a pretty bumpy night as the anchorage is kind of exposed to the south and the wind had picked up considerably.
   
June 27th Monday We rented  and rode up to the Cape Cod National Seashore. This is a really beautiful place. The bike path is the best way to see it as it winds through the pine covered dunes down to these wide sandy beaches. We saw a seal swimming there and there are warnings out for Great white Sharks who feed on seals.
   Town was almost as busy as yesterday which is fun. The wind is still up so I'm expecting another bouncy night.

Friday, July 1, 2016

June 28th We left P-town about 8:30 and after tacking a few times. After leaving  bay we took off on a broad reach all the way across to Plymouth. This is whale country as this is  a sanctuary for them. I'm not sure whether I want to see an animal that is bigger than my boat. It was a nice broad reach all the way until the entrance to Plymouth harbor. The entrance is long and winding and there are many buoys. There is a cachopy of bells,gongs ,and whistles from all the buoys. we finally got tied up at the end of the breakwater and took a water taxi a long way  into the pier. We walked down to the Mayflower and the less than inspiring Plymouth Rock. This is the smallest state park in Ma. but the most visited.

June29th We wound our way back out to the ocean only to find a cloudy windless day. We did some more motor sailing and ended up in Scituate harbor. There was some confusion as the mooring the launch kid told me to pick up turned out to be a lobster pot. After more senior people arrived we were moved to the correct mooring. There we walked into a farmers market and bought some groceries.

June 30 We sailed for a couple of hours this morning into a NW 5-10 knot breeze until it died completely and we motored until the entrance to Boston harbor. This proved to be a maze of channels and islands that was very confusing. there was a bridge shown on the charts that did not exist anymore. We got to Spectacle Island marina and took a free mooring. This island was a garbage dump for Boston until the 90's when they decided to clean up the harbor. They capped it with fill from the Big Dig and made a park of it. The views are spectaclular of the city and surrounding islands. This is a seaglass collectors paradise. The beach is filled with bits of glass and pottery from the dump days. Its pretty cool to find a piece of pottery that someone used a 100 years ago.

   Other than that it was a very bumpy night. The main ferry route and not to mention every boat  in Boston seemed to go by and the wakes were exhausting. It finally calmed down only to have the jets from Logan change their course right over the top of us.

July 1 We left to a windless day but as we came around the corner of the island there was a large tanker coming out of Boston. Coasties with machine guns chased us away from it until it was passed. Following that was a Navy Cruiser coming into port for the 4th.

   Then it was a 30 mile broad reach until we turned the corner of Mass. at Cape Ann. It was a great sail past all the coast of Northern Ma. until we arrived in Rockport. We got into the harbor at low tide and it felt like being at the bottom of a bowl. The tide is 11 feet here and there were all kinds of people lining the walls looking down on you. This is a very quaint little town and we are enjoying it. We have met several other sailboats in here. I asked the harbor master about buying some diesel and he told me to go down and see Billy Lee in this derelict fishing boat. Sure enough he pumped some diesel out of his tanks. Big thunderstorms are due tonight!!