BB,
meant to ask:
how is milford for a weekend stay?
thanks
gf.

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On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 11:44:35 -0400, "gonefishiing" wrote:

was anyone else out on long island sound yesterday?
it was blowing like stink all day.
just returned last night. spent the night aboard only to wake up to rain
today.

if i didn't have to be back, we could have made block island in record
time.
as it was, we spun the boat around and headed for home on a close haul
all
day.

something i have encounter a number of times on the sound: when the wind
is
out of the west--south west, it always seems to gain strength the closer
i
get to the western edge of the sound. i suspect it has to do with how
narrow
the area around throgs neck is, relative to the rest of the sound.

has anyone else experienced this


The LIS was indeed honking yesterday. We got a late start at around 11:00
AM.
The first hour or two it was blowing about 12 knots more or less, with
fairly
flat seas. By 3:00, it was blowing about 20 knots, with frequent higher
gusts,
and the seas picked up accordingly.

It was a great sail from near Milford, up to Hammonassett Beach and back
with
beautiful weather. Tons of sailboats were out. At Hammonassett Beach,
someone
was flying a giant kite that resembled an octopus. Rough guess is that,
with
tentacles, it must have been about 50 feet long and 10 feet high. There
were
other, much smaller kites doing aerobatics.

BB