As we came out of Provincetown Harbor we saw the lead boats in the Beringer Overnight Race race just arriving. I think they were becalmed a while overnight. They had left Boston at 7 pm yesterday.
We followed the curve of the hook at the end of Cape Cod around to Race Point Light. Ahead were a lot of fishing boats on our course at the south edge of Stellwagon Bank, just NW of the end of Cape Cod. As we neared the fishing fleet, I thought I saw a bit of smoke appear just above the water between two fishing boats. When a dark shape appeared under the “smoke” I realized I had seen a whale blow.
There turned out to be several whales in the area. We rolled in the big jib and out the little jib to have maneuverability as we spent some time whale watching from Owl Moon. They put on quite a show. A couple of times one rolled onto its side and waved with its flipper.
It was another beautiful day on the water. We sailed all the way to Gloucester. First on a close reach and then the wind shifted SE and we went dead downwind wing and wing, with the little jib out as well.
We arrived Gloucester at 3:30 pm where we had a mooring reserved in the inner harbor. I called the harbor harbor launch to find out where our mooring was and he led us to a mooring where a power boat was towed and I could see him having a conversation with those aboard. Uh oh! He soon radioed to tell us that the boat was on our mooring and would be leaving soon.
After an afternoon nap and happy hour appetizers aboard, we called the launch to go ashore. Fortunately for us, we called early to go in and walk around a bit before our 7pm dinner reservation at Rudder Restaurant. The launch took 30 minutes to get to us and then we made a couple of stops before arriving the dock of the restaurant just before 7. There are moorings and an anchorage in the outer harbor, about 2 nm from us that the single launch also serves and he was delayed serving requests from out there.
The restaurant was packed and noisy, food was good.
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