Murphy Strikes Back

Great Salt Pond, Block Island, RI N 41 11.588 W 71 34.950

We got here fine about an hour before dark. The guide book said that there could be as many as 1500 boats anchored here so were nervous about not finding a spot. However, there are perhaps only 300 boats here in reality, so there's lots of room. We did have to anchor in 37 feet of water, that's deeper than we're accustomed to. Oh well, no storms forecast.

My plan was to go ashore and tour the island today. But Murphy had his revenge. The wind picked up, to SW 15-20, it was the wind we wished we had to sail here from Cape may. Also, my plan was to tour the island today. It turned out that we were more tired than we thought. We ended up staying onboard, sleeping and reading books all day. Oh well, we have no deadlines, we'll stay here another day and tour the island tomorrow.

I spent half the morning splicing a nylon line that had frayed. Even though I followed the splicing instructions in the book very carefully, the result looks poor. I won't dare use that line for anything mission critical.

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