Trip dates:
Saturday, July 3, 2021 to Saturday, August 7, 2021
Trip length:
36 days
Type of watercraft:
Sail
Block Island Anchorage, Great Salt Pond
Marshall Point Light, Maine
Monroe Island, Owls Head Pass, Maine
Owls Head Lighthouse, Maine
Pulpit Harbor lobsterman
Freshly caught/bought lobster
Freshly caught/bought/steamed lobster
Pulpit Rock which guards the entrance to Pulpit Harbor
1300 mile round trip, solo cruise to Maine:
- Rhode River to Chesapeake City
- Chesapeake City to Cape May, NJ
- Cape May, NJ to Atlantic Highlands, NJ
- Atlantic Highlands, NJ to Shinnecock, NY
- Shinnecock, NY to Block Island (sheltered for TS Elsa)
- Block Island to (private coordinates) conducted burial at sea
- Block Island to New Bedford for propeller replacement (4 days)
- New Bedford to Rockland, ME
- Rockland, ME daysail to Monroe Island, Owl's Head Pass
- Rockland, ME to Rockport, ME (marine life sighting trip)
- Rockland, ME to Pulpit Harbor (North Haven Is., ME)
- Pulpit Harbor to Camden, ME
- Camden, ME to Rockland, ME
- Rockland, ME to Port Clyde, ME
- Port Clyde, ME to Onset, MA
- Onset, MA to Cuttyhunk Is.
- Cuttyhunk Island to Block Island
- Block Island to Atlantic Highlands, NJ
- Atlantic Highlands, NJ to Cape May, NJ
- Cape May, NJ to Chesapeake City
- Chesapeake City to Rhode River
Marine life observed:
- Atlantic bottlenose dolphins (Delaware Bay through NJ coast)
- Small shark (unknown species, commerical traffic scheme of Lower Bay, NY)
- Large manta ray (north of Cape Cod Bay)
- 2 Ocean sunfish (Gulf of Maine)
- Pilot whales (Monhegan Is./Penobscot Bay)
- Harbor seals (Penobscot Bay)
- Harbor porpoises (Penobscot Bay)
- 2 large Ocean sunfish (Penobscot Bay)
- Large whale (unknown species) Gulf of Maine
- Large whale (unknown species, coastal NJ)
- 2 humpback whales (south of Atlantic Highlands, NJ)