10 Sep 16

Just for a change, we rowed into the dinghy dock and walked into town to have breakfast at the famous Pier View Restaurant; and what a nice breakfast it was. We got back to the boat and away from the mooring after 11:00. After we cleared the end of the jetty at the southwest end of the canal, we spent an hour and a half going around in slow circles to re-calibrate the flux-gate compass; apparently it worked, as the chart-plotter and the real world are now aligned once again. Then, we observed that the radar was not aligned with the chart-plotter - i.e., off by about 20 degrees. That error could not be fixed underway. So, we got the sails up and had another excellent spinnaker run all the way to Cuttyhunk Island. We finally pulled into the harbor as a thick fog was moving in from the south. The harbor is full; we picked up one of the last available mooring balls - quite a change from the last time we were here (2 years ago), when we were the only boat here and the harbor master was picking up all of the mooring balls. With the boat steady, I finally managed to get the radar re-oriented correctly to the chart plotter. John and I then rowed into the island to pay our respects to Dr. Seymour DiMare, a year-round resident of Cuttyhunk, who we met two years ago, when we were last here. He is now 89 years old and currently under-going chemo-therapy for lymphoma, but still pretty spry and very entertaining to chat with. Then it was back to the boat for happy hour and dinner aboard and the fog came and went, and the cold front worked through. John (or “Toots” - in honor of the recently-deceased Toots Theilman - as we now call him) and I sat up in the cockpit playing guitar and harmonica until nearly midnight.

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