Almost Daily Update
Champlain
George & Sam Chandler
Tue 15 Jun 2010 15:50
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We arrived at the entrance of Newport Harbor just
before dawn yesterday. It was agreat ride. We had about `5 hours of
15 to 25 kt winds off the port quarter, then the wind dropped. We put
the sails away as we sliped into a fog bank for the next five hours hours.
It was great radar training, interestingly it was just as we were crossing the
main E-W traffic lane that runs into NYC. Our only really close
encounter was a fishing trawler that was stopped dead ahead of us. We
ducked around him by about 600 feet;his
tackle was to windward so we took him to leeward. Big mistake, the smell almost
stuck to the boat.
Once in Newport we were able to tie up to the face
dock of the Wyndam Hotel, nobody seemed to notice at that hour. We spend
several hours cleanning the boat up as we waited for an agent to come to the
boat to clear us and Champlain into the US. By noon we were motoring
up the bay to Jamestown to New England Boatworks where we will
sit until Thrusday or Friday getting a list of minor problems
fixed.
Stewart, Tim and Fiona, the team that brought
Champlain 4,700 miles from Ipswich to Newport just jumped on a bus to head
for their next delivery job via Boston.
Cindra and Tom will arrive Thursday evening and
after we watch 200 boats jocky for postion for the start of the Bermuda race we
will start moving up the coast toward thhe Cape, Boston and fianlly Portsmouth.
George
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