SAILING YACHT PERSEPHONE

The 19th looked none-too-promising, and I put on a warm sweater and foul weather gear as we left Seal Bay. We were sad not to see it on a sunny day, as there is so much there to explore, but there’s always next year! We made our way through Fox Islands Thoroughfare and out to…

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After the cruise broke up, we had hoped to continue east with a goal of reaching lovely remote Roque Island. We were there two years ago and swore not to go back unless there was going to be good weather! However, with fog and strong Southwesterly winds in the forecast, we decided to start working…

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We moved on to Hell’s Half Acre, which is one of our favorite anchorages, in a little slot between two tiny islands. It looks quite exposed at high tide, but at low tide you feel quite protected. After the fleet had cocktails on the beach, most people went back to their boats, but we stayed…

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Last year, we got some scratches in the side of our boat, which the boatyard never got around to painting this spring. No problem – a little bit of nail polish in a similar color, and you can’t tell the difference from more than 2 feet away!

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With strong winds forecast for the first two days of the cruise, our original itinerary was abandoned and boats dispersed. We picked up a mooring in North Haven, which is a small island community with a couple of gift stores and art galleries, a brew pub which was unfortunately closed the day we were there,…

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We left Marblehead soon after 5am on Friday July 8 on our way to Maine. The weather was clear with a good following wind – we have no idea how much wind there was since our wind instruments are currently not working! As we also needed to adjust the battens in our mainsail, we motor…

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