July 1st, 2009The Weather is Like Life – It’s What You Make It!
Stardate 6/27/09
I know a lot of people have been complaining about the weather, but really. I look at it like, there are really only about 18 to 20 good boating weekends in New England and you have to make the most of all of them and I think Donna and I do a pretty good job. We are about 35% of the way through the boating season and we have already put about 50 hours on the boat.
So, even though the weather forecast didn’t look good for the weekend, Donna and I headed down on Friday night and spent the night. It is
always good to watch a movie on the boat and be rocked to sleep. We got up the next morning and it was beautiful. We decided to make a steam out to Stellwagon – we still haven’t done that this year. As we were heading out to sea, we were around Graves Light and I could see the fog coming at me faster than I was headed toward it. So we turned around and when to our favorite anchor spot by Peddock Island. Well, something when very right that day and we picked the perfect spot. The fog did roll in, but we were in the sun for about 6 hours. It got so foggy we couldn’t see the city but above us is was very nice.
It did start to get a bit chilly and cloudy so we headed back to the marina. When we got there, Paul, Betty Anne, Steve and Betty Anne nice and some of her friends were all there. They had said, the day was beautiful on the doc too but it looked like it was going to rain. The thing I love about the marina though, it didn’t matter. We all hung out, under the tarp on Paul’s boat and played some games, had a few drinks and a ton of laughs. I forget sometimes – its a family there – a very fun family.
Next weekend – 4th of July – I can’t wait! Until then…
Posted by Captain SteveK
July 24th, 2009 at 7:17 am
Hi – I just discovered your blog and am really enjoying it. I'm a boater out of Scituate Harbor and have been looking for blogs like yours!
I'd like to hear more about anchoring at Peddocks Island – we've been to Spectacle Island a few times, which is fun, but it'd be great to discover a spot where we could pull up and anchor right on shore and swim, play on the beach, etc. Are there good spots at Peddock for this?
Thanks again and I'm looking forward to more posts!
August 5th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
KevinB,
Just saw the comment and sorry for the delay, I am normally way better at the response, I was on vacation.
You can anchor at Peddock and my wife and I often blow up the tube and tie it off to the boat and float for hours. There is a beach near by and you could swim up to it and play.
Funny thing is, @ Peddock this weekend they had an Aquapaloza – probably 200 boats all rafted up and they had a large party boat with a band playing great music all day.
Thanks for reading the blog and there will be more posts this week.