5 June, 2015. Sheffield Island, Norwalk. 41.03.00N 73.25.27W
Alcedo
David Batten
Mon 8 Jun 2015 00:23
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3rd
June. Sunshine and clouds and still very cold. We have had the
duvets out for several days and the K-Hs are very glad they have bought gillets
and jerseys. No thoughts of tanning or air conditioning. We motored
to windward again, with the Garmin autohelm doing the steering while we huddled
under the spray hood, venturing out at intervals to make sure we are not going
to hit anything. By 2.00 o’clock we are on the jetty of the Norwalk Yacht
Club with Kitty and Scott, in separate cars so the boys can go exploring with
Scott, while the girls get taken to a supermarket and wine store by Kitty for a
major stock up while we have the use of wheels to carry it back to the
boat. We can’t thank them enough for making life so easy and putting
themselves so willingly at our disposal. Then, to cap it all, we go to
their house for the most lovely supper with them and to meet Dick and Robin,
great friends of theirs that we are going to get along with, “guaranteed” and we
certainly do.
  South Norwalk from our mooring
buoy.
Norwalk Yacht Club where we were made to feel most welcome
 Looking up the river at Norwalk from the Yacht Club pontoon.
The following morning we were treated to a presentation of Scott and
Kitty’s second circumnavigation, which apart from a very impressive
demonstration of what yachting round the world should be like, inspired us to
hope that we might experience some of the wonderful places they went to and the
people they encountered. After a delightful lunch at the Rowayton Pizza,
we say a reluctant goodbye and leave the Yacht Club for Sheffield Island and an
evening walk.
  Outside the Rowayton Pizza with Scott and
Kitty.
Alcedo anchored off Sheffield Island, Norwalk in the background.
It turns out that the Island is closed to visitors, but the two young
stewards are very apologetic and say we can walk between the water and the high
tide mark, which we do until we come to a ruin and forget ourselves.
Caught red handed by the girls, we grovel and end up asking them to supper on
the boat, great fun and very nice to have some young on board.
  The skipper walking on Sheffield Island with a boat hook picked up on the
beach.
Venetia walking below the high tide mark, dressed for the cold......
  ...while Anthony is determined to pretend it is warm enough for
shorts.
One of a pair of Ospreys nesting on the Island.
 The Skipper is very happy entertaining Delanie (middle and from
Pennsylvania) and Kirkland, from South Carolina, who were stewards for the
Island this summer.
Tomorrow we are aiming for a place called Jefferson and then Duck Island,
which will give us a hitch up to Noank, where we are planning a lobster dinner
and need to arrive in good times. The wind is still dead on the nose and
very cold and the tide is against us all morning, so making progress up Long
Island Sound is not proving quick and easy.
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