A Day In Bristol

Bristol, Rhode Island, N 41 40.010 W 71 17.186

Yesterday's favorable impressions of Bristol were reinforced today when we went ashore.

We left our dinghy at the city dock just behind the harbor master's boat and walked down to the Herreshoff museum. The road along the way was lined with wonderful 19th century homes and the stripe down the middle of the road was red white and blue. Down at the museum the first thing we saw was an America's cup 12 meter boat on the front lawn. It was the America 3.

We spent the whole morning in the Herreshoff museum. It was delightful. The wooden boats, both power and sail, were wonderfully beautiful. The stories were interesting. The history was impressive. We were interested in everything we saw. Part of the museum was the America's Cup Hall of Fame. Needless to say, that was very interesting too.

After the museum we walked downtown for lunch, a visit to the library and to a botanical garden. When we were done and it was time to row back out to Tarwathie, there was a stiff breeze. It took me a half hour of strenuous rowing to get back aboard. We're not likely to go ashore again today because of that.

Horrors! While we were ashore, Tarwathie dragged her anchor 150 feet. I had 120 feet of chain out which should have been adequate for the 21 feet depth at high tide. We also had set the anchor well according to our S.O.P. Despite that she dragged anyhow. First time she dragged since Lake Champlain last summer. Now I have 200 feet of chain out and we haven't moved an inch since. Oh well. Tomorrow our goal is Buzzard's bay.

----------
radio email processed by SailMail
for information see: http://www.sailmail.com