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Alien-Trip Report
First of all...I'm tired! We sailed back from Morris Cove in just over 9 hours. Here's how it went: Left City Island at 3:30 dispite a lot of people suggesting we wait until the T-Storms pass. We caught good, if not strong air until we reached Oyster Bay when the wind picked up. We anchored for dinner, then Suzanne reasoned we might be better off making for Port Jeff. We enterer Port Jeff LATE, after 2:00 am I think and grabbed a mooring. Bit of a challenge due to MAJOR waves and chop in strong wind as we entered. Morning at about 8:am we went tried to find a 40 foot Heron (as mentioned in my badly dated guide) and found none! But we went into town, grabbed a few things and Suzanne got herself a McDonald's coffee. We headed out into a beautiful day and we agreed that the Thimbles still might be a bit of a haul if we wanted to swim and have a bit of fun. But as the wind increased she determined we could make it and quickly. We hit the thimbles at around. I tried many times before and after, up until 5:00 to hail Bill. I even ****ed off a few people doing it too often. Note: The wind was quite fresh and we were reefed and furled down, still at hull speed. There were VERY few boats sailing, unless I saw what was typical for the area We had a bit of a tricky time figuring out where to enter the Thimbles, finally found the anchorage indicated (between Pot and Hi, if I remember right. Steve walls with homes and A TON of boats anchored for fun. Some lucky devil had a J27 (I think) actually at his own dock between two narrow cliffs. Small cliffs...but still very pretty. There was just too many boats there and many more coming in. We toured the area...ran into a patch of sand not far past the cable run area...managed to get around it. The best places to anchor, shielded from the wind, were all full up. We had lunch and left, making for East Haven at around 3:30 or 4:00. Again, hailed Bill. Nada. I was bummed. Meeting someone there would've been fun. We hailed Morris Cove and got...A FREE MOORING! Wow! Even the kid in the launch came around and brought us ashore where they had outdoor stall shower for guests-better than our puny shower. Came back, cooked a steak for her, fish for me and watched Bowling for Columbine...a bit overated. We left at 6:am sunday and it was COLD! We had sweatshirts and foulies on! The wind was great, clipping along at about 7.5 or so...then....6.5....6. Slowing down on the GPS as the current kicked in. After 5 hours we'd made 26 miles, but the trend was slowing down. Then the wind flipped on us and died! Zikes. We motored 2 hours before catching good air again near Oyster Bay. We had a great time. Suzanne loved it....we tried to change plans to allow two more days...couldn't. Here's a pic of Alien powering toward the channel at the Thimbles. http://hometown.aol.com/bobsprit/images/thimble4.jpg More pics to come. I'm going to sleep! Capt RB |
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