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June 1st, 2010

       We left New Haven, CT on sunday, May 30th with high winds and white caps. Spruce decided with a little gleam in his eye, that we would in fact put up both our sails.  As he turned the boat in the roaring wind, I scrambled up the deck as it pitched up and down. After the jib and main were hoisted, I scrambled back to the cock-pit and Spruce swung the boat around and we set sail.  The wind ripped past us heeling us over 20 degrees while the seas splashed angrily into the cock-pit.  After sailing for at least an hour and fifteen minutes, we decided to take the sails down and motor.  So, once again, I scrambled up the deck and took the jib and the main down, (Spruce often wonders how I can scramble across the deck in high winds and take the sails down and not flinch while being in the cock-pit heeled over at 10 to 20 degrees makes me nervous.) While attempting to control the boat, Spruce’s beloved hat flew off and we were forced to preform a rescue at sea, (Spruce did several donuts and I leaned over the life rail with the boat hook,as the seas pitched, but we rescued his hat.) After the daring rescue at sea, we were treated to an air show with Corsair and Hellcats.  They did mock strafing runs and Spruce was in his glory.   Later that day we decided to spend the evening in Bridgeport, CT for the evening.  The place looked like something from out of the town that time forgot.  Around 9:30 PM, thumping hiphop music began blaring from the Dolphin Cove Marina Restaurant. The music continued until 12:45 AM.  

       The following day we set sail again for New York, along the way we heard at least 3 distress calls on the radio.  One of the calls was about a mile away from our position. Long Island Sound is sure a busy place.

      Well, after spending the last evening in a barebones marina, (they had water and an expensive restaurant, nothing else), we decided to stay in a place with at least a toilet and possibly a shower.  We went through our list of marinas and ended up in the Brewer Post Road Boatyard in Mamaroneck, NY.  We will be spending two nights here because of heavy thundershowers in the East River area.