After five days in Newport weather improved and it was time to move on. With winter getting closer and frequency of gales increasing there was no longer time for Martha`s Vineyard or Nantucket. We had been looking forward to Martha´s Vineyard where Jaws was filmed and doing some research we found that white sharks are in fact quite common in these waters.

Marinebiologists have placed underwater cameras in the Cape Cod area and almost daily is a white shark filmed at this time of the year.

Nevertheless we headed to Onset Harbour to be ready for the Cape Cod Canal the following morning. The canal has currents reaching 4kts so you want to time the 1 hour passage with slack water if possible. We entered the canal slighly after 8 in the morning and after passing the first bridge we ran into thick fog. It was a bit of a challenge to pass the canal on radar but once out in the Atlantic on the other side all fog cleared and the passage up to Boston was a pleasure. 

Still in day light we tied up to a mooring at Waterboat Marina just in the center of Boston. To spend some days in the capital of New England was something we both had been looking forward to and working friends from our time in the Falkland Islands were in Boston which meant drink on Dora Mac and dinner in town was on the schedule.