We booked a mooring at Brewer's Dauntless for $50, but as the forecast started to deteriorate, we tried to get a slip instead. Note: there are tornado warnings in CT for tonight. We figured it would be no fun to ride the dinghy back and forth in that. Brewer's slip price is $4.00/foot. Yikes. Oh well - maybe someone will buy us dinner!
We had a couple time constraints today:
- Slack current in the Race was not until 11:00
- The weather was forecast to turn to crap as the day went on
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| Leaving Lake Montauk |
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| Looking back through the channel into Lake Montauk |
Wind was up as soon as we left Montauk. We started out with a reefed main and jib. The waves were not so bad yet. Eventually we unfurled the full jib and were doing a nice 6kts on a broad reach.
Ooops... no chart
We realized that we never bought a chart book for all of Long Island Sound. Our current book only shows as far west as New London CT. So Linda bought a single chart for the sound at Star Island YC's marine store. They didn't have the whole book in stock. They mostly cater to power boaters in there so not all that surprising.
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| Linda studying the new chart |
We conquered the notorious Long island Sound Race. We arrived at it a little before slack with an opposing current of about .8kts. The wind was really up but just as we were about to cross it, the wind gusted very high. We took a quick break to re-reef the jib.
Back with our people
The further north (away from Montauk?) we got, the more sail boats we saw in the sound. In fact on our second day at Montauk YC, we were the only sail boat in the whole place.
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| Some crappy weather up ahead? |
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| The Old Lyme RR bridge |
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| Linda poses with her dear brother |
Full photo album of this trip
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