After enjoying a breakfast with the CT crowd at the little restaurant at Brewer's marina in Essex, we headed on down the river with an unknown destination for the day. We planned on sailing somewhere around Fisher's island - maybe Fishers itself or Mystic.
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| They dropped the bridge for the Amtrak as we approached |
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| A green can in the CT river current |
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| Saybrook light as we approach the sound |
We found ourselves in a light breeze and opposing the strong current in these parts for most of the trip. The good news is we charged up the batteries, and made lots of hot water. The bad news is we did this by running the engine quite a bit.
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| This power boat had a sail up at the same time our sailboat was motoring! |
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| Finally some breeze. |
Lord Dumpling
Just north of Fishers are a pair of islands called North and South Dumpling islands. North Dumpling island is inhabited and owned by Dean Kamen - the inventor of the Segway.
More about that here
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| Dean Kamen's Island |
As we got near Fishers, we started picking up a nice breeze. This was around 14:30 and the current was now past peak against us so things slowly improved. We decided we would just stay the night in the harbor at Fishers but the sailing started getting so good, we just wanted to keep going. It was getting late though so we started calling around for a mooring for the night. The only place that answered the phone was Haring's Marina in Noank. $30 for a mooring. Sold!
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| Entering Noank. LOTS of sailboats in here |
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| Classic Southern CT |
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| Linda waiting in line for her CT Lobster Roll |
And what a nice surprise Noank is. This is about the most beautiful harbor I've been in so far. And it's very dominated with sailboats. What an awesome home base this would be for a sailor with so many great destinations within a day sail. Maybe we'll do some realestate searches.
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