Day 1, June 28. Piscataqua
It's a new summer, time for a new adventure. Last year we missed sailing from home (Durham, NH) to Narraganset Bay RI due to late spring weather, and coming back, hurricanes were churning up the coast, so we trailered home. This year's adventure will be to complete the journey and then some. We're off to a slow start.
The weather gods can be fickle. Eclipse has been prepped and ready, but winds have been from the East which brings fog, or southwest, which is on our nose. Instead we drove up into the White Mountains and did a two night backpacking trip.
But finally, Friday looked good. So we launched Thursday evening, tied up to the dock there for the night, and watched the forecast deteriorate. Friday morning brought thick fog, so we didn't bother getting going until late morning, motored out to the mouth of the Oyster River, and tried to sail with no wind, which didn't work well at all.
Instead we dropped anchor in a cove for lunch, reading and napping until the tides changed. Finally a bit of wind picked up, so we sailed down to Great Bay, and returned to the cove for the night as the wind died again.
The forecast for the next two days is for thunderstorms, so we'll not likely to be going anywhere soon.
No comments:
Post a Comment