Sandwiched

Ellen authorized a late start so today we slept in until 5:30 before departing Scituate. Met a boat last night, they left 45 minutes before we did, so we spent the day pretending we were pirates trying to overtake them and capture their treasure. The boat was named Jade, appropriately. 

This is the treasure ship Jade. (Obviously, I got the wifi working again.)

After a few hours of glorious sailing, we caught them. Cupcake was in her element. Small craft warning, so we reefed the main and went charging through fairly flat seas in winds that probably didn’t get above 20 knots. At one point we saw 8 knots on the gps. Spent a good portion of the morning flying along at 6.1+. 

Downside? Between the humidity (it is in the high 80s here in Sandwich) and the cold water (50s!) moisture is condensing on the inside of the hull in all the dark dank lockers. Oh, we also overfilled both water tanks, it seems. So some of our homemade water found its way...everywhere durning the brisk excursion today. Fortunately we love drying everything we own and repacking it. Also, it’s a good thing Ellen has a ziplock bag fetish and puts just about all our stuff in those plastic wonders.

Anyway, we are at a crazy expensive dock in Sandwich, waiting for the current through the Cape Cod Canal to turn in our favor tomorrow morning. Hope to be in Woods Hole tomorrow mid-day to visit Freeport friends. Then we plan to anchor, finally, and relax while we wait for favorable weather for the trip to Block Island. About 16 years ago we spent some time in Hadley Harbor and are looking forward to stopping in that lovely spot. 

Went to the Cape Cod Canal Visitors Center and learned all about the big project. We have great pictures but I don’t know how to post them from this iPad. For some reason the WiFi on the laptop stopped working. Now I need to get myself a dongle. (Edit: it's working again.)

Cruising tip of the day: an hour by car takes a day by boat.