Position 42:36.61N
070:39.44W
Date 2359
– Tuesday 28 June 2011 (UTC -4)
We spent Monday and Tuesday anchored in Gloucester
whilst we sorted out a yard to haul the boat in August when we are booked to return
to the UK
and to obtain a quote for possible rebuilding of the cockpit enclosure at the
same time. We hope that we have achieved both objectives. Gloucester being only 25nm from Boston and with a regular train service into
the city seems an ideal spot; it is also much less expensive than anywhere
further south.
In between we were able to explore a little more of this delightful
town. There are some interesting statues including this one commemorating
the fishermen’s wives and children, waiting the return of their men from
the sea.
And one of the artist Fitz
Henry Lane is in the garden of the house,
overlooking our anchorage, where he lived most of his life.
Dinghy trips around the harbour provided a series of interesting
aspects of this mixed harbour where serious fishing mixes with pleasure and
social boating. Fishing boats in for repair lie alongside preserved
schooners and those under serious renovation.
