Waterbury Power Squadron Rendezvous - Block Island - Aug 2-3, 2008

I am lacking photos for this page. Please email me your photos - JonesRichardWendy@Hotmail.com.
Karen Rosa , our official photographer, was off on some other adventure.

Part I: Photos of the Thimble Islands in case you have never been there before.

Doug and Dick left Captain's Cove around 6:30 pm and pulled into the Thimble Islands at 12:30 am Friday morning- no moon! We picked up a mooring - just to the east of High Island and north of buoy "CG" near the center of the chart. In fact, we were exactly where the 15' depth marker is.

Before we left Doug assured me there would be an unused mooring in that area (I was skeptical) and sure enough the first two moorings we came to were available. If no moorings were available, we could have easily anchored in that area. In fact, we did pass one anchored sailboat (with no anchor light - until he heard us coming) as we moved up the channel.

Explore NOAA online chart of the area around the Thimbles - link to.

Early Friday morning: Looking northeast up the channel.

Looking southwest down the channel. To the left is the sailboat we passed last night.

Looking toward the northwest at the break between the the two pieces of High Island. We are about 40 yards from it.

Looking south - Pot Island

x

Pot

Horse

Approaching the break between Pot and Horse Islands.

The break between Horse and the Outer Islands. Looks like another place to anchor.

A place NOT to anchor!! These are the rocks to the southwest of High Island, which are underwater at high tide!!!!!!

We have now left the mooring and are heading back out the channel.

Outer

Part II: Sailing to Block

Part III: At Block Island - New Harbor - Great Salt Pond

Part IV: Returning - Sunday afternoon

Part V: Cool boats seen on the way

Part I: The Thimble Islands
Part II: Sailing to Block I.
Part III: At Block
Part IV: Returning
Part V: Boats seen along the way

About a mile outside the Block I. harbor - boats racing to find a place to anchor.

A peaceful Saturday morning

Red "x" marks our anchorage

I was surprised that you can actually see the bottom where we anchored in about 7 ft of water.

Our raftup

Dingy ride to lunch. Crowed, right. But notice the beach at the upper left of the photo. Also a place to bring in your dingy.

We took a taxi to Old Harbor for lunch.

From left to right:
Doug, Craig, Pam, Brenda, Wendy, John.

Missing from photo:
Carl - was helping a woman thru a crises in her life.
Dick - photographer.
Mike C. - just arriving in the harbor.
Vicki & Tom - also just arriving.

After lunch walking back to New Harbor the weather started to turn - just as we saw earlier on John's Blackberry. Wow, what a handy tool.

Here we are back on the boats waiting to see what develops.

Yes indeed, that boat on the left is really dragging its anchor.

After the storm abated, Aldo was out selling his pastries. What did he yell out?

Wendy and John - thanks for the apple and blueberry pies!

Later on in the afternoon we headed to shore to meet folks of the Middletown P.S.

And along the way we checked out all the boats.

This guy probably stayed dry during the storm.

<<<< Doug checking on our anchors.

Leaving the harbor, I spotted this boat.
Is this Mike's?

Such a beautiful Sunday afternoon and a lot of moored boats in Noank harbor.

But also a number of boats enjoying an afternoon on the water.

Cautionary tale: A tree trunk also enjoying an afternoon on the water.

Sunday evening, Doug and Dick picked up a mooring in Old Saybrook, about a mile up from the mouth of the CT river. Doug first called the harbor master who said some moorings were available.

On the far right are a couple boats in that mooring field.

The hunt for crabs - pure fun. Remember when?

Satellite photo
from web