CODA :Sailing to Vermont

6 June 2023

Wickford Shipyard

Wickford, Rhode Island 

CODA ready for her first sail.

Marc-  CODA is our new to us Cabo Rico 40 and this is our first sail.  Bob Kirbach, a Vermonter with many years of sailing experience and super nice guy, has agreed to be crew.

We filled up on 100 gallons of diesel for $500 dollars.  Previous owner had left the fuel tanks low but the holding tank nearly full.  We motored out of the harbor and set the genoa all without issues for a nice trip out of Narragansett Bay.  At Point Judith we met contrary current and headwinds for the next 24 miles to Fishers Island, New York.  Anchored.

Watch Hill Passage at Watch Hill Light.  Taylor Swift's house in the background on the bluff.

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7 June 2023

West Harbor, Fishers Island, New York

Bob at the helm.

Marc-  Quiet night at anchor. I made scrambled eggs in the microwave since our stove is not working.  The toaster and the coffee maker were fine.  We were off at 06:45 and proceeded West without seeing a single submarine.  We did see a mast sticking our of the water but it belonged to a sunken boat.  Long Island Sound was fine despite West winds of 10 to 15 knots on the nose so to speak.  We decided to call it a day after hearing the weather broadcast of Southwest winds building to 20 knots and plumes of Quebec smoke turning the skies a bit toxic.  We called a Branford marina I had been to in the past with my parents and booked a dock for the night.  After we settled in and had lunch, we exited the cabin into toxic smoke.  Ouch......  we went back in for the masks and then went for a walk.  

Special mention to Bob for doing the lions share of helmsmenship and for precision docking. 

Irving and Electra Johnson's Yankee.

The sun poking through the toxic smoke from Quebec forest fires.