Mattapoisett Again

With six days of good weather we've been able to travel 224 miles south. We only travel in the daylight, and with the shorter days and adverse afternoon winds we've had, we are only averaging 37 miles per day. But we've seen a lot of beautiful sunrises lately.

Yesterday morning we dropped Hatch's mooring (Thank you Mr. Hatch), waved good bye to Plymouth Rock, and motored out the long channel under cloudy skies.

Plymouth Rock is under that fancy granite pavilion right on the shore.

Conditions were okay at first, then we hit a little fog for a while, but by the time we turned into the Cape Cod Canal at noon, the fog had disappeared. Our ride through the canal was sunny, fast, and uneventful, and we continued on to Mattapoisett in light headwinds and calm water. We had the anchor down by 2:30.

Since we've done lots of overnight sailing, you might wonder why we don't just leave in the dark and make more miles per day. This lobster boat with a big wad of line around his prop shows why; we need to be able to see and avoid the lobster buoys.

Some lobster boats actually have these cages around their props so lines can't get caught. I wonder if something like that would work on a sailboat?  

The weather is looking bad for the next few days, so we plan to hang out here, restock the food lockers, do some laundry, and maybe visit the Whaling Museum in New Bedford.