Day two in Mystic was just as enjoyable as day one! My boyfriend and I spent a good part of the day walking around the seaport and checking out what the museum had to offer, including the figureheads gallery, the Charles Morgan Restoration project, the junior sailing program, the old fishing vessels, not to mention the awesome Rosenfeld Collection. One of the premier nautical photographers,...
The highlight of the cruise was definitely Mystic. We stopped here after Stonington, making the oh so excruciatingly long hour and a half or so trip from Stonington to the Mystic River. Ok, it was probably the shortest leg of the trip, but the tricky part was making it UP the river to the Old Mystic Seaport, which was hosting us overnight at the Maritime Museum docks. I guess they only let a...
Well we weren't able to avoid the fog. We motored all morning from Galilee to Stonington. We had high hopes of the fog lifting, but of course it didn't until we were secured to a mooring. It was a quiet day in Stonington harbor, mostly spent swimming off the boat and cruising around in the dinghy for a little harbor tour! In the evening, we made it onto land for a terrific shower and some ice...
So this part of the Cruise has an interesting story attached... and I'm not sure if I should call this the Second Port of Call? It wasn't on the itinerary, more of an emergency stop...Well anyway, after waking up at the crack of dawn from Dutch Harbor, we set off out of Narragansett Bay and turned West towards our next scheduled stop: Stonington, CT. The fog was some of the thickest I had seen in...
At the beginning of August, an annual event took place: the Wickford Yacht Club Cruise. This highly anticipated club event is a week long trip taken by WYC members, as we all chug along together, under power, sail, or power-sail, to various locations along the southern New England coast. In the past, from what my parents have recalled, the cruise took years to leave Narragansett Bay and for quite...
