September 21, 2008
After a nice day onshore yesterday (Saturday), we decided to get up and out early to start the long trek to Long Island. Our goal was to find a place on the inside of the Island (called the Fishtail) because after careful inspection of the charts there isn't really a good anchorage on the northern shore of Long Island for quite a few miles into the Sound. The problem with that plan is that it is at least an hour to get back out into Long Island Sound. (No Pat, there isn't an outlet from the fishtail back to Long Island Sound - you have to go out the way you came in.) So we chose Orient Harbor because it was the fist anchorage we came to without going too far into the fishtail. The trip was uneventful (yeah). We made excellent time. The wind was 5 to 10 knots on the nose (bow). So we had to have our friend Yanmar help us. (For those of you who don't know Yanmar - he is the diesel engine on board). You can start to worry if I obtain a basketball, name it Wilson, and talk to it.
We did see a tall ship pass us on the way to Orient Heights. Pictures are posted on the snapfish site. If you don't have permission to view them, email Michele (mpapile@papile.net). Here is the link to snapfish photo album.
Orient Harbor is very scenic with an excellent beach; however, we are too tired to go ashore. This trip was 7 hours long. And tomorrow may be even longer as we would like to get to Port Jefferson before dark (approx. 50 miles away).
We arrived in the harbor and anchored by 4:00 p.m. We had dinner and retired early.
More to come later.
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