Twelve Hours on the Sound

USMMA Foundation vessel Tortuga needed hands for a transit from Kings Point to Newport RI, where it is serving as support for Warrior Sailing program races this weekend.  I didn’t wait for a second call. I just needed to get there by 0250.  No problem, since this IS my favorite time of “day.”

tug Elizabeth Anne at 0236 h.

sunrise from the bridge of Tortuga at 0502.

Past Port Jeff ahead of ferry PT Barnum  0638

Passing Bruce A. McAllister with Vane barge on the wire along North Fork 0937

Meeting ferry  John H near Plum Gut at 1002

Seeing a distant ferry Cape Henlopen (?) and  S/V Mystic Whaler off New London 1030

Many thanks to Chris.

UNREP from M/V Otter for second breakfast at 1035

Passing S & S yawl Black Watch off Fishers Island 1042

F/V Skipper off Point Judith Light 1259

Schooner Aurora near Newport  1352

Tortuga at rest as Warrior Sailing crew moves in 1615

 

Many thanks to Jonathan Kabak for the invitation.  All photos here by Will Van Dorp, and I have many more.

Click here for numbers on Long Island Sound.   Actually this trip involved the Sounds of Long Island, Block, and Rhode Island.