Point Judith with photos

Millybrown
Mark Hillmann
Sun 2 Nov 2008 00:29
We ran and reached in plenty of wind all day yesterday.  I thought of carrying on through the night, then of going back into Newport, but ended up in Point Judith just before Newport.  It was getting dark and unlit buoys in the dark, as well as occasional lobster floats made me stop.
 
We wound into Point Judith, another well protected river and tied up at a pontoon.  Then supper and sleep. 
 
 We were out again before sunrise this morning; although not too early at this time of year. 
 
 By the time I was in the outer harbour the sun had risen.  It is very quick down here, at the same latitude as Portugal.  Why do we get frost in the mornings?
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Here we are running downwind with the staysail poled out to windward, giving wind across the genoa which flapped uselessly before.
 
Note the bright cloudless sunshine too.  It is so clear that morning and evening you can see the waves against the horizon. The horizon is all waves.  Refraction also makes trees and islands beyond the horizon, float above the sea.
 
Round the UK and in daytime here, the horizon is flat at sea with occasional waves above it.  
 

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