Tuesday August 21

Sailed from Padanaram Harbor to Onset. Big day for us as we’ve never traveled down that side of the bay. Nice sailing. Wind was behind us so we poled out the jib and tied out the main, wing on wing. Made it as far as the entrance to Hog Island channel, which is the entrance to the Cape Cod canal. The harbor patrol came out to inform us that we needed to turn on our motor. He also advised us to drop sail if we were going to stay in the channel. We followed advise. This part of the trip was a bit stressful. We were going into Onset due to the canal current was running against us. Plan being to leave tommorow morning with a fair current. Getting into Onset with an opposing current was tough. Barely made 1.5 knots going in.

Got into Onset tired. Went to Mark Anthoney’s for dinner. I had pizza. Lynne had a lobster roll. Great place. Nice town. Going back.