Light air sailing Sunday August 9th 2020
There’s a strange thing about light air sailing. It seems that you just amble along watching the boats come and go around you. Vessels approach ever so slowly. You have time to figure out if all will be well or not. Until you arrive at your destination.
Suddenly everything seems to be happening too fast. The entrance to the harbor is hideously narrow. There are boats emerging one after another. You need to get the sail down without running into these other vessels. Once inside the harbor, (that you remember as a sleepy little place) there are dozens of boats and it looks nothing like the place you visited previously. Finally there is a spot to anchor and the hook is down. What a relief.
That was today’s sail from Cuttyhunk to Hadley Harbor (just to the west of Woods Hole). Except for the frantic start that involved another parade of boats leaving the mooring field and some tight quarters putting up the sail. Now we are relaxing and preparing for a transit of the Cape Cod Canal. Let’s hope that goes better than our last trip through where we had to be towed out of the Canal when the seal on our propeller shaft collapsed!
Gloria
41 30.855 N, 70 42.080 W
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