First Sail of the Season (leg 1)

Today was the long awaited day to put sails on and bring Prairie Gold to her summer home back in Constitution Marina. We had seen that there were low winds of 5-7kts predicted, which would make adding sails in the marina an easy job. By the time Yolande and I finished putting sails on, winds were gusting to 25kts off the beam. As you can imagine this made life a little difficult. Also, low tide was at 11:05am and in Marina Bay, we had only inches to spare so we went to Capn Fishbones for a leisurely brunch. By the time we returned to Prairie Gold we decided it would be difficult to navigate slowly through the marina with the cross winds (especially since some reversing was needed) so we waited to a couple of hours. Eventually the wind died to 11 kts gusting to 20, so we decided to disembark. This had given several hours for the tide to come in and for there to be some depth going through the narrow channel, which at one point is reported to be 4ft at low tide. As we approached Spectacle island we decided to check if the sails were attached properly. We had a great sail back around to Constitution Marina. We saw only two other sailboats the whole time leading to the feeling that we had the harbor to ourselves.