Joy and Peter, Greg's sister and brother-in-law, joined us a for a fun and fast sail around the Boston harbor islands yesterday. Peter is a keen sailor: it's always fun to have good sailors on board as we can really make the boat fly. Boston harbor is beautiful with a number of islands (including a new man made island built from the soil removed from Boston's 'Big Dig' underground highway system), some imposing, tall lighthouses, and tons of sailboats, ships and other traffic.
Happily, and not by that much, we avoided going under a bridge marked on the chart as having a 150' vertical clearance, but which was actually somewhat less than our 70' foot spar. That wouldn't have been fun.
We finished up back on our mooring under the financial district, and had a typical French barbecue to celebrate Bastille Day including hamburgers, hot dogs, corn on the cob, and some wonderful Dutch cheese that Peter and Joy brought for us.
Today, when Greg wakes up, we plan to continue north, perhaps to Marblehead, but perhaps instead to the famous (think of 'The Perfect Storm') fishing village of Gloucester. I'm fascinated by fishing boats (well, really boats of any kind), and with real working harbors, and in Gloucester we get both.
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