Long Island Sound at Night

Diane called ahead and made a mooring reservation at Manhasset Bay Yacht Club as we figured we'd spend the night there before continuing on.  However, the weather forecast for the next day was for no wind and the chance of thunderstorms by afternoon.  By now, the weather had mostly cleared and there was no indication of any more rain overnight and light winds forecast.  So, we decided to continue on our way, motoring through the night on LIS.  I set a waypoint for the Race, uncertain whether or not we would exit trough there of go north of Fisher's Island.  That would depend on what time we would reach The Race.

The forecast light winds did not greet us at the start of LIS and instead we had 15 knots against the ebb current.  We found ourselves motoring into steep waves and had to slow down and alter course to the left to stop the slamming.  However, I could see on SailFlow that weather stations were reporting light winds throughout the LIS except for right where we were.  After a few hours of slogging (including during dinner), things finally settled down and we had flat seas through much of LIS.

Sunrise in LIS

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We reached The Race very near the end of the ebb with very little current flowing with us.

Exiting the LIS, I set the next waypoint for Cuttyhunk.  It seemed we had gotten north of the storms and would spend the night at anchor on on a mooring in Cuttyhunk.  In the afternoon, after passing Narragansett Bay, a sea breeze came up and we sailed the last 10 miles to Cuttyhunk.  We pulled into the marina dock at 17:30 (along the dock face, between the dock and the pilings for the slips, perpendicular to the slips that were empty) and Diane jumped off to put in an order for lobsters before the lobster shack closed.

We also had some Cuttyhunk oysters

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Even though we weren't in Maine yet, the oysters were delicious!