Martha’s Vineyard

Left Hadley Harbor at 9AM.

Martha’s Vineyard is a large island, with several harbors. We plan to visit two of them: Lake Tashmoo, and Vineyard Haven, on the way to Edgartown, the tourist Mecca!

Both Lake Tashmoo and Vineyard Haven looked pretty, but rather quiet, so we continued on to Edgartown, arriving around 11AM.

Here we are passing the iconic Edgartown Harbor Light at the harbor entrance.

This is so exciting! I can’t believe I’m here on my own boat. What a birthday present!

Since we plan to stay just a couple of days, we elected to pay an outrageous fee to tie up to a pier, rather than pick up a mooring. Glad we did. It gave us a lot of flexibility.

Spent part of the afternoon dealing with paperwork: the sale of my old boat was being finalized, The broker – Tom Lippincott – had to send some papers to the local notary, and I had to sign them and get the hard copies back to the broker in Rock Hall.

It seems he sold Whistler in 4 minutes. He had no sooner published the photos to Yacht World, than the buyer called! “Is Whistler still available?” I guess so, I just posted it 4 minutes ago!” “Well I want to buy her!” Hah!

Tuesday morning we were up early for a walk to the lighthouse and an early morning swim.

The harbor is foggy. I hope it clears up later…I’m hoping to leave for Nantucket if I get the paperwork done.

Here’s a great shot of a cat boat emerging from the mist:

The houses here are also gorgeous!

Well, it took just 30 minutes to complete our business at the bank! Unfortunately, it then took 30 minutes to walk to the post office. And then it took 2 hours in line at the post office! Gotta love Covid! Or maybe it’s always like this?

Here’s the cute little bank:

And here’s part of the line at the post office! Everyone masked and 6′ apart!

Finally underway to Nantucket at 11:15.