Mary and James, welcome aboard.
Moorglade's Voyage
Ted Wilson
Sun 5 Aug 2012 22:30
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Sunday morning was sunny and calm with a light sea
breeze forecast for the afternoon. Kirsty had arranged to meet Mary, an American
friend she had worked with in Ethiopia, and her partner James at the Yacht Club
at 10:00 so we could enjoy a leisurely start to the day. When it was time to go
ashore the outboard behaved itself and refrained from creating an oilslick
around one of the posher yacht clubs in the US. (a little oil goes a long way on
a calm sea). The rendezvous worked well and we all strolled around the quiet
town and out to Fort Sewall before returning to the dinghy by the harbour road
for the short ride out to Moorglade.
The passage from Marblehead to our destination at
Salem is a very short one, but as Mary and James were not sailors we headed off
shore between Marblehead Neck and Children's Island, sailed Northeast for a few
miles giving time for lunch round the cockpit table before heading
back up the Salem Channel into Salem Harbour. The weather had been very pleasant
during the day but as we approached the harbour darker clouds and rising wind
threatened. We took a mooring off Hawthorne Cove Marina. Once secured we sampled
some of James' very palatable and rather alcoholic Mystic brewery beer. After a
quick shower we all went ashore in the marina launch, it was quite choppy and
with four it would have been a long wet ride in the dinghy, to join up with
friends of Mary's, who live in Salem, for an excellent dinner. Mary and James
took the train back home to Boston and the launch was waiting ready to take
Kirsty and I back on board. Luckily we had stayed dry despite the threatening
clouds.
 Marblehead Harbour looking towards the Yacht
Club
The top of the harbour is a narrow strip of land running out to the
Neck.
Most of the yachts are behind us
 Breakfast in the
cockpit
Kirsty Mary and James in Marblehead.
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