Harbor Antics
August 21st 2020
One of the great things about spending time in a harbor is that you get to watch all the activity. Boats arrive and depart. You can watch other boaters take their dinghy to shore with or without a dog. As we were enjoying our pre-dinner rest in the cockpit, the very large sailboat that had been in the harbor earlier returned to it’s mooring. They motored right past our stern to pick up the mooring pennant. We speculated that the driver was the owner and the guy fishing for the lines was “crew”. The boat is called “Angel” with a home-port of Georgetown. It flies a flag we can’t identify with a union jack in one corner. Too bad there are so many “Georgetowns”...
Tonight’s observations included several re-anchorings. The first was a boat to our port side whose owner was confronted by a man in a kayak. The paddler complained that the sailboat was anchored “too close” to his moored day-sailer. The opinion on our vessel was that the sailboat was in a perfectly acceptable position. Those people were much nicer than we are; they moved their boat to a new location. Somewhat later as a thunderstorm approached a cruising boat made a series of attempts to re-locate. We wondered what was going on there....
In addition to the actual activity, we found that this harbor (Pulpit harbor on North Haven) has a strange current pattern that leads to the boats lying perpendicular to the wind and sailing around the anchor in many different ways. At some points we were quite concerned that we were too close to the boat on our starboard side. Suddenly it seemed to “set sail” and crossed our anchor chain to lie in an entirely different spot. Did I mention that the owner of this boat took a shower in the cockpit? I had to avert my eyes. There’s always something happening. Eventually, though, it gets too dark to spy on your neighbors!
Gloria
44 09.225 N, 68 53.054 W
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