Sandy Bay, Rockport, Massachusetts
Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Mon 10 Sep 2007 15:08
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42:39.604N 70:37.132W
Here we are in Massachusetts. We sailed from
the Isles of Shoals to Rockport on Thursday (9/6). Yup, sailed
again. Lots of wind. Not from the proper direction. It was
another one of those zig zag days (yes, Skip and Bruce, zig zag). I think
it's the sidewinder snake that travels sideways towards its destination.
If so, then that is what we did on this day. Imagine sailing for hours,
watching your destination slide by. Sideways. And then you turn, and
you watch it slide by again. Sideways. And you know, as you slide by
sideways, that if you could just head straight for that destination you'd be
there in one hour instead of three...
Anyway, we arrived in Sandy Bay, which is just
outside the Rockport harbor, with plenty of time for Don to climb up the mast
using his handy-dandy top-climber to retrieve the ballooner halyard
[non-boater translation: the rope that attaches to the top of the ballooner,
which is a colorful sail not unlike a spinnaker] that mistakenly got stuck up
there during our 'let's try every sail configuration known to man' trip
from Richmond Island to the Isles of Shoals the previous day. Because the
halyard was stuck at the top of the mast, we couldn't use the electric
winch to whisk Don up. He had to do it the old fashioned way and
climb up what he usually uses as the safety line when going up the mast.
It was really windy and our mast is 65 feet above the water. Have I ever
mentioned that Don is afraid of heights? He looks pretty confident in this
picture though, doesn't he?
The second picture below is of Rockport, taken from
where we were anchored. We didn't take the time to go into town, which is
too bad because it looked really cute and we had heard good things about it, but
our stop here was short. We sailed to Provincetown (P-Town) the next
day.
Anne
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