We depart Block Island at sunrise bound for Cape May, NJ. This is a 200 mile offshore run past the approaches to NYC. On the trip up to Maine it was night and we sailed through a rather large fishing fleet as well as other vessels making the transit …
We depart Provincetown at 6:45 AM. Winds are fair and seas are calm. We intend on stopping at Cuttyhunk for the evening. We have a current pushing us across Cape Cod Bay and we opt to increase RPMs to run at 8 knots. The 20 miles to the entrance of the Cape Cod Canal passes …
We chase the setting moon westward. At half-full the moon’s illumination still provides a silver path directly on our course. For hours we motor along that road till the moon’s arc takes it further westward than our track. Slowly we seem to veer off course as our “road” moves to our starboard while …