We headed out from Guilford this morning around 0815, using a car service, and made it to Newport in time to find the launch location and early enough to grab a great breakfast at the Nitro Café the launch took us out to the Marsgracht ahead of our scheduled 1130 launch. We got lucky - the dense fog was clearing, and there’s a front moving through overnight, so the timing was perfect. Because of the front, Susan had booked us into Newport Shipyard for three nights. We balked at the proposed rope ladder climb down, and with the intervention of our Seven Star agent Jay (we met him for the first time today), the launch picked us up at the bottom of the floating gangplank and dropped us alongside Raconteur after she was lowered.
We made it into the marina by 1215 - we have a perfect spot on their “working” dock - and by about 1530 or so Raconteur was a fully functioning sailboat again - decks cleaned, sails restored, dodger and Bimini re-installed, dinghy off the foredeck and onto the davits.
This is a cool place. We will stay tonight and tomorrow night, and try to be off at or just before first light on Sunday, hoping for a rising mid-tide before sunset in the slip at Guilford Yacht Club.
Yes, it’s all a little disorienting.
2 comments:
I'm so pleased everything went as perfectly as possible.
I miss you guys! Have a great sail!
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