Monday, August 13, 2007

Try to guess where we are now . . .

We've moved again. But this time we'll make it a bit of a guessing game. In the photo below there is a clue to where we've moved to. Look carefully at the ship in the picture and see if there is something that tells you were we might be.


If you guessed Nantucket, you're RIGHT! Man oh man is it nice here. We got in yesterday after coming across Nantucket Sound from Hyannis. It was a flat calm so we motored all the way. But it was a very nice day and we had a great trip. This morning we're checking out Nantucket Town and heading over to the whaling museum.


Here is a picture of the kids at anchor yesterday afternoon.



While we were making our way over here yesterday we had a visitor on the boat. This dragonfly was tired and decided to take a break by resting on our bimini. Given the calm conditions it was no problem to grab the camera and get a close up shot of this big guy.



Drew has been doing really well with his fishing. Here is a picture of him with one of the largest Scups he's caught so far. This is just one of about five that he caught the other day and it made for a great meal while we were in Hyannis.




Drew also came up with the idea to "water ski" behind the dinghy. Here are some shots from Lagoon Pond on the Vineyard that we took a week or so ago of Drew being pulled on his boogie board by Emily and I. Jake can't swim yet due to his IV line but he's chomping at the bit to try out boogie skiing.




In some of our pictures you can see Joanna knitting while on the boat. Well she's been working for some time on a sweater for Emily. Here is a shot of the finished product. It came out GREAT!


Here is the last shot for right now. We had another small adventure before leaving Martha's Vineyard (aka the Island of Doom). We were all ready to take off for Nantucket and when we tried to pull up out anchor we found that we were pinned to the bottom of the harbor by a big piece of metal. I snorkeled down the chain in about 11 feet of water to find the chain going strait into the metal and I couldn't even see the anchor. Visibility wasn't great and I could only stay down as long as I could hold my breath.

We called Tow Boat US and had them try to pull us off the metal but even their 450 horsepower tow boat was no match for this hunk of metal on the bottom of the harbor. Here is a shot of the tow boat that came over from Falmouth to help.

The next morning we had a diver come over from the Martha's Vineyard Shipyard. As it turned out, the chain had gotten pinned under the metal and the anchor was fine. The diver dug out the chain and then we were free. It was nice to be near assistance and I've since bought a SCUBA tank, something I had not packed previously, so that in the future I'll be able to take a better look down below without counting on being able to hold my breath.

More on Nantucket soon . . . whale ho!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The trip sounds good, the boogie skiing looks like fun, and the dragonfly picture is cool but I am most impressed with the sweater - that's awesome!! Glad to here Jake is feeling better :-)
Love from Cortland!