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September 02, 2009
Block Island, RI to Montauk, NY
Work Boat off Montauk
Our neighbours in New York, Emily and Huntley, rented a house in Amagansett for the summer. We’ve tried a couple of times to rendezvous with them but the stars were not aligning. While anchored in Block Island, I called Emily to see if they were out island this week. In fact, they were! Lucky us. We agreed to call when we arrived in Montauk.
We left Block Island after breakfast. There was no wind, so we knew it would be a long and tedious trip. Montauk is the outer most point of Long Island’s south fork. The current ripping into Long Island Sound was incredible, stirring things up and making everything very lumpy – like a rubber duck in a washing machine.
We entered the channel to Lake Montauk around low tide, which was a little dangerous given that the lake is very shallow. We realized how shallow it was when we saw virtually no sailboats. We kept going, trying not to look at the depth sounder, which I had recently recalibrated to measure from the bottom of the keel rather than the water line. This meant that I saw a couple of times 2 to 3 feet of water under the keel, which made my heart race a little. At least it wasn’t set in metres! Then it would have read less than 1.0 and I would have had bricks in my shorts.
We made our way to the marina, tied up Prana (that sounds kinky) and checked in at the office. We had lunch on the veranda and scrubbed the boat. I called Emily and said we had arrived. They were heading out fishing and asked if we would like to join them. We agreed. They pulled up alongside us, had a look at the boat, then we hopped in their boat and went fishing. Chis caught a few bluefish, but they all went back – apparently not good eating.
We went to their home after fishing. Taylor, their one-year-old, was still awake when we got there, so we had a little play time. We helped Huntley get dinner together while Emily put Taylor to bed. Dinner was fabulous. They drove us back to the boat, where we quickly fell asleep in anticipation of another journey tomorrow.
Posted by dave at September 2, 2009 09:42 AM