Hooray, hooray! Emily is veering out to sea, and she only did minimal damage on Cape Hatteras. However, now Nantucket's in her path.
The generator has conked out again, so Roy worked on it while I paddled to Essex to get a few groceries. Essex is a lovely old New England town. I walked past a brick building that had a sign carved in stone saying, "Pratt's Village Smithy 1678". Then I passed Lt. William Pratt's house, 1732, and David Williams house, 1766. There was also a small preserve that was open to the public, so I strolled around it. Finally got to the grocery store, bought all the groceries I could carry, and lugged them back to my Royak. No sooner got there than Roy showed up. He was as surprised to see me as I was to see him. So he explored the town while I took the groceries back to the boat and put them in the refrigerator.
Roy passed a travel agency that had a sign out front advertising 25% discounted air fares until September 15th, so he went inside to inquire about fares to San Francisco and return. The woman was very nice. She spent a lot of time checking the various airlines and finally came up with a roundtrip fare of only $318. She had to go some place, so Roy came back to the boat and discussed it with me. I agreed it sounded like a good deal, so we paddled around a little and then returned to the travel agency in Essex. Roy got a ticket from JFK to SFO for September 17th, returning November 13th. So now we have a deadline and we have to think seriously about finding a place to leave the boat.
We paddled to the well-known hurricane hole of Hamburg Cove and talked with someone who was moored there. He said the moorings were free, to just help ourselves. Roy was considering leaving the boat there while he's gone, but I vetoed that in a hurry. The boat has to be tied to a dock in a marina, so there'll be dockside electricity to run the electric heaters; it's going to be getting cool during the next two months. I also need easy access to a grocery store, a laundromat, and buses so I can go wherever I want to. It would be nice if the area also had good radio stations, but that's a secondary consideration. Of course, the place also has to be reasonably priced. One possibility might be Norton's Marina in East Greenwich, where we're planning on staying when we're in Rhode Island. Their daily rate is 75 cents a foot, and their monthly rate should be a lot less.
Love reading these logs!
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