Deep Bay, Point au Roche State Park, New York: July 9, 2021
Marc- Last day of Cruise Week for us unfortunately. We dropped the mooring lines and left with most of the sailors heading for Burlington this morning at 09:00. The wind was out of the North at 10 knots and we set our spinnaker then raised the mainsail and mizzensail for a nice reach to Cumberland Head. We actually stayed with the racing sailors for awhile but they passed us around Colchester Reef. The winds were steady until Burlington and we were warm enough in the cockpit with the rear end of the enclosure closed off. Temperatures did get up to around 70 but the the wind increased from Shelburne Point to Thompsons Point and so did the waves (increasing to 5 feet). We traded the spinnaker for a reefed genoa at Shelburne Point. The waves made for a little rock and roll action but nothing too serious. Everything calmed down once we reached the turn after Thompson’s Point for Town Farm Bay over to our mooring at Point Bay Marina. Fortunately we arrived at 15:30 and the marina was still open for us to do our unloading at the fuel dock. Ray appeared instantly and suggested that we stay the night at the dock since they had placed a boat on our mooring. That would have been nice except I was leaving early to drive Sara over to Maine in the morning.
We all drove up to Burlington to get the Honda Civic that Sue had left on the street near our friends Jessica and Patrick’s house. All was fine on our arrival and we thank Jessica and Patrick once again for the bag of fresh vegetables that we found on their porch. Hope to see you out sailing again soon.
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