Sailing away from it all to Martha's Vinyard.
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Fri 9 Sep 2011 12:31
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THURSDAY 8th SEPTEMBER
2011
( Barometer 1003 )
Ohhhh, Its blooming freezing today, as well as
being wet, wet, and wetter still, Gawd, the rain all night
was like something from a Biblical Tempest, so we
decided to remain at anchor in this beautifull tiny harbor
of Pocassit for a couple of hours and see what
happens to the weather,
Skipper got into the Generator again and byepassed
the heat switch on the exhause pipe in an effort to trace the
reason
for the generator missfiring or almost cutting
out when the engine gets hot, we have already replaced the one on the
manifold,
The second mate cooked eggs on toast for breckfast
and this was greatly recieved,
10.45hrs the rain stopped so we raised the
anchor and nibbled our way out the narrow and shallow
entrance and
back to the main entrance to the Cape Cod Canal.
There was a good stiff 18knot breeze blowing over
our port quarter so we set the sails and sailed the 7 miles
to Woods Hole, another Canal type passage
through the Islands and into Vineyard sound.
From woods hole we had to motor across to Edgartown
, another 8 miles before picking up a prearranged
mooring,
The weather , which was sunny and warm for the
entire trip across, suddenly reverted back to being miserable,
it got windy and cold and damp, so we ran the
generator and turned on the airconditioning to keep us nice and
warm.
The generator seems to be working well again , no
spluttering,
Skipper unstrapped the dingy and went to lower the
thing into the water when BANG, ohhhh my gawd, the wire on the stb
davitt snapped, the outboard and transome of the
dingy fell into the sea and were completly submerged,
Thats not good for the outboard, so skipper
immidiatly had to organise a marine operator to collect the dingy tomorrow
morning
and overhaul the whole engine,
Later ,we got the harbor ferry ashore, Second Mate
went for a walk while skipper went to the Yacht club and relaxed with a
G&T
as a skipper should,,,,,,
Later still, we returned to " A Lady" , had dinner
and went to the scratchers,
Thats it for today,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
Skipper )
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