Port Washington to Old Lyme, CT

Saturday was cloudy and fairly calm so we had an easy unexciting trip to The Thimbles, a group of island off the coast of Connecticut.  It feels like home to be anchored off beautiful granite islands.

Sunday morning was cold, rainy, cloudy and windy.  The weather forecast called for 5 - 10 knots of wind out of the SE.  The actual weather was ENE 20 - 25 knots, exactly our heading.  We sailed for about an hour and were making great time over ground but only about 1 knot per hour in the direction we were trying to go so we ended up motor sailing.  On a nice sunny warm day it would have been an enjoyable sail but the cold rain was unpleasant.

Our timing for entering the Connecticut River was not great as we were against the tide so we had to slog our way in at 3 knots then had to wait 15 minutes for the bridge to open before we could tie up to the dock at the Old Lyme Dock Company.  Robin came to the rescue and we are now enjoying ourselves in her nice warm house.