We made an overnight cruise from Bar Harbor to Cape Cod. The timing was not good to go through the Cape Cod Canal, so we overnighted in Provicetown and then went through the canal and onto New Bedford where we anchored just before dark outside the hurricane hole. We discovered as the tide went out that we were not in a deep enough spot and bumped along the bottom for two or three hours before the tide was up enough to pull some scope in. Unfortunately we pulled a little to much in and before we knew it the anchor was dragging and we found ourselves in the channel with a ferry bearing down on us! It was heave ho and up the anchor qickly. We decided to go on in and try to find a mooring. (We had not been able to raise the rental mooring company the previous evening by phone or radio--by now it was after midnight--which is why we decided to anchor in the first place.) We ended up on a private mooring waiting for dawn when we would have better visibility to find the rental moorings.
We met up with some nice people there who gave me a lift to the grocery and offered us the use of their mooring the next time we are in New Bedford.
From there our next stop was Mystic Seaport where we holed up for a few days waiting for the remnants of Rita to pass by.
If you ever have the opportunity to go to Mystic Seaport do so. It was a neat place. The marina we stayed at was part of the museum and the entrance fee was included in the marina fee. (You also could walk around the grounds after the museum was closed although all the buildings and ships were also closed.) The place was fun and educational.
We met up with another cruising family there and Justin and Josephine were glad to have other kids to play with.
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