I had a really great solo sail from Mystic to the Conn. River enroute to the USPS event. Small craft warnings were given but the wind (20 kts. gusting to 25) was from the north and that keeps the seas to reasonable levels if you are on the north side of Long Island Sound. I had a reef in the mainsail (reduced sail area) mostly because I was solo but my speed still averaged over 8 kts. and topped out at 9.9 kts. It was a very quick trip at that speed. Lots of fun!
The District 1 Poker Run went well and then we had Waterbury Squadon people aboard for an evening social. The next morning I came upon 6 empty bottles of wine on the counter so I would guess everyone had a good time, a really good time.
Unfortunately the next day we had very bad weather. Small craft warnings again, with rain. The wind was stronger and coming from the direction we were heading. This meant a very slow, uncomfortable motoring voyage with a lot of hull banging, window leaks and even a damaged cabinet door that swung freely until it broke. It took an hour and 45 minutes longer to make this return trip than the outbound trip. No fun at all. Not dangerous. Just boring and tiring. Not the note on which to end a decent boating season. Perhaps the trip at the end of October to our winter storage marina will be better. Maybe not.
Here is a photo of Piggy Sue swimming to Bassett's Island, Pocasset, Cape Cod back in August. She wrote another letter that will be in the next issue of Points East Magazine. It concerns meeting up with Shadow, the dalmation, at Hamburg Cove. Shadow is one of the dogs she dissed in her previous letter to the magazine. I don't know when it will come out. The current edition is the October/November issue.
We finally got around to putting our boat name on the sides of the boat:
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