September 19th- North Cove/ Old Saybrook, CT to Mattituck, NY

We really enjoyed Old Saybrook on “shore leave”. The town has just about everything you need within walking distance. We only needed AAA batteries and a little water. Later on in the day we had sun downers with some sailing friends that we met on our last Southern Odyssey. They suggested Mattituck as a nice anchorage. We headed over to Mattituck on Long Island.

Mattituck looks challenging to enter when looking at a chart. It appears to be a little dug out hole up a creek. The creek is actually well marked and the “hole” is a good sized basin. Beautiful scenery. One passing shower to wash some of the salt off the decks.

Some scenes from Mattituck.

The Creek-

Happy about the easily accessible dinghy dock.

Evergreen anchored in Mattituck Basin.

September 20th- Mattituck to Northport Bay, NY

Plan A was Port Jefferson but we were feeling inspired to continue on. The north shore of Long Island is dotted with many anchorages. We decided on the area around Huntington Bay to end the day. A little further up the Bay is Northport Bay. This anchorage boasts good protection and a really nice beach. Ollie got a good workout on his commando raids (he needed it).

Happy pirate cooling off after some intense ball action.

This little island is called Sand City Island.

Evergreen anchored in Northport Bay.

September 21st- Northport Bay to Port Washington, NY

With approaching weather coming we decided that Port Washington would be a good place to spend a few days. I had high hopes of sailing up Long Island Sound but it wasn’t to be. We had light, flukey, winds mostly on the nose. Today I observed my first sunrise in a long time. We caught the morning flood up the bay and sailed/ drifted along at 2 knots for a while. Eventually, we fired up the diesel engine.

You can just barely see NYC off in the distance.

Due to all of this engine work we have used up much of our diesel fuel. We decided to fuel up in Port Washington so as to be prepared for the NJ coast and Delaware Bay. The significance of this is we’ve NEVER docked Evergreen. Ok, we have piloted her onto a truck for haulout. That takes some skill. Our docking went well as did the fuel up. Lynne and I were very organized and proud of our accomplishment. While Evergreen is larger than Catalpa, she maneuvers well and stops. We then grabbed a mooring for the night.

September 22nd- Port Washington, NY

Today we’re hanging around Evergreen waiting for the rain to cease. Lynne managed to get Ollie to shore (between squalls) on the Port Washington Water Taxi. I managed to donate our grill lighter and canvas bucket to Neptune. I was very attached to the canvas bucket but sometimes the sea takes things. We’ll stay here a while. We need a few items in town. One of Lynne’s favorite farmer’s markets is on Saturday so we’ll be here at least until then. Looking forward to fresh bread, ravioli, and produce.

Rainy day.