Thimble Shoal Cruise, Sat Oct 2nd, 2010

Nice Saturday afternoon, warm (around 70), sunny and a NE breeze around 10 knots - pretty good for a relaxing cruise. The boat had not sailed since Earl (a month ago), due to our travels (Chicago - J/105 NA's & Rochester - M24 NA's), so Silver Fox was all buttoned away. We had to bring down sails, and take the boat out of hibernation, which took about an hour.

We headed out of the cut at the beginning of an ebb, but still flooding outside. The end of the flood here runs from south (the beach) North up the Bay, and thus was under us and we were making good speed over 6kn on the GPS. With good progress we decided to continue to Thimble Shoal light as it was a reach out and would be a reach back home too.

It was puffy, and the puffs must have been about 5 minutes apart, and were oscillating (may have been velocity too though).

Its a 12 mile round trip, and took us 3 hours door to door. Put the boat away as the sun set on a very relaxing and enjoyable afternoon.