Another one for the books

Tom McDonagh

In spite of the forecast calling for spicy to salty weather, we shoved off from Cape May around 10 am. We motored for the first few hours waiting for the wind to settle in and to catch up with svScoot and svCalypso2. The forecast called for significant sustained gusting. Overall we saw very mild conditions resulting in a broad reach till we separated company with our buddy boat friends. We turned for Montauk expecting building wind. This never materialized and we spent a good part of the remaining journey rolling with just the headsail deployed. The wind totally abandoned us off the west coast of Block Island. All in we burned about 15-20 gallons of fuel. Only did the wind return with a vengeance as we were docking to offload the boat. I think we raised the waterline by an inch or so. We had a good welcome home by friends after tucking away Redshift on the mooring. Now, a month of refitting begins.