Nantucket

This trip was fraught with anxiety.

• It’s the first time we were traveling for more than an hour outside the sight of land 
• Visibility was restricted by haze.
• Seas were sloppy: 2′-3′ right on the port beam. Extremely uncomfortable.
• And on top of everything else, an alarm went off telling us we were critically low on fuel!

Logic told me that we couldn’t be out of fuel, but it was still upsetting. Nothing to do but continue!

We finally made the breakwater at 1;15. Just 2 hours but it seemed a lot longer.

We’re staying at the Nantucket Boat Basin, a huge upscale marina in the heart of the harbor. There are a series of piers built out into the harbor, each large enough to contain cottages, restaurants and shops.

These are fixed docks with a significant tidal range, so the dockhand who helps you into your slip carries an electric drill with which he repositions the metal ladder so that it’s perfect for boarding and reboarding! Snazzy!

The boats here are huge as well. It’s our first exposure to megayachts; we simply don’t see them on the Chesapeake.

Even the sporsfishermen are huge. This one is a 70-footer with a 35-foot tender. His tender is bigger than my boat!

Today has been kind of quiet: shopping and laundry. It’s a good day for it: 66 degrees and cloudy. I hope it’s prettier tomorrow when we head back to Marion.