PRELIMINARY - Day 6: HOME! Safe and Sound Saturday Evening - All is Well

Friends - this is being written from HOME - I just walked up from the dock - and turned on the lights here at the house.

Roger is safe and sound as well - over in Rowayton.

I will post a more complete listing tomorrow, after a good night's sleep, and after picking up Fitz and England from their "summer camp" at Puppy Grandparents in Stamford.

But it was a classic, classic day - a long one, yes, but an epic voyage from Deering Harbor, through Plum Gut - and then DIRECT to home.   The start of the day was about 6:30 am - the crossing of the Gut was about 8:30 - and then some looooooong hours on a bearing directly for home.

The rhumb line from the gut to Greens Ledge Light is 275m - and we were on it all day long.   The prior consideration of stopping over at an interim harbor was quickly abandoned when we saw what a boost the flood tide was giving us from the Plum Gut and the Race.  We slowed down around New Haven and Bridgeport - the flood tide was spent about Noon - and in the afternoon we had dismal 4kt progress.  But all in all, we arrived in the neighborhood about 7:00pm.

7:00pm was too early to get over the Holly Pond Dam - so I diverted to SoNo Seafood - 'dock and dine' and had a pleasant interlude with PJ and Peter - and then just now - brought Lovinde into the Pond and HOME!

OK - that's the day in a nutshell .... tomorrow I'll have some statistics and a wrap-up of the trip - but for now - a very good conclusion to the CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF LONG ISLAND VIA CATBOATS!

Catboats Forever!!!         Best all - Frank Kemp and Roger Klein
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