The last two days

We found the only bar in Massachusetts that doesn’t have a TV! After our telecon we headed to the chartroom bar to watch the England game. Alas, no TV. Of course you can stream to your phone if you have a subscription through Xfinity to ESPN– but we don’t (can’t stand overpaying for hundreds of channels of garbage). So we managed to follow the game with live updates on our phones (Gaurdian and NYtimes) as well as with text messages from my brother and one of my sister in law. It was probably better as England didn’t play well and we lost and are now out of the world cup.

We are very happy that we have dual citizenship because tonight we can cheer on the USA vs Portugal.

From the stern of Prairie Gold in Red Brook Harbor

On Friday morning we departed Red Brook harbor at low tide. Any of you have been through this area know that this can be quite intimidating. But since it was out fourth transit through the narrow channels we were fine. 

Notice the very shallow region beyond the buoy

We quickly hoisted sails and headed for the Cape Cod Canal. At 10am I had another telecon (the final one of the trip). Afterwards, Yolande commented that I had never been so quiet on a phone call before!

 A classic as leave Red Brook harbor

Entering the Cape Cod Canal (this time I got my Flood and Ebb correct) 

Passage through the canal was a breeze and we then turned north toward Scituate for our final night. We managed to sail for about half the distance then needed to turn on the engine. We arrived at Scituate, noticed wear in the sail, so did a quick patch job, then headed to land for our last dinner of the vacation – Oro.

Sunset from PG in Scituate

Saturday morning we woke to another beautiful day in all ways but one – wind. We force sailed for an hour, then motored home.

 Scituate on departure

Visibility was amazing - Boston from about 18nm

During the trip we had our GPS track running as well as monitoring distance through our through hull speedo. The former recorded 385.5 nm and the latter 380nm. I guess this means it is well calibrated. We only used about ½ a tank of diesel and did not need to refill, a good indication of how much wind we had.