Block I: Unexpected Pleasures

Thursday, 26 June

Sheets of gray late in the day layered over New Harbor.

Shrouds shriek and Steadfast dances around the mooring ball. Her bow swings from so’west to nor’east and, at the same time, what had been a bright evening sky darkenes and dark droplets dot the dodger.

The day dawned in dense fog. Block I. was under bright sun by noon. But now mates, at just 1700, it’s shaping up to be a dark ‘n stormy night! Arrrrrrrrrrrgh.

Neighbors remained but the shores of New Harbor disappeared overnight.

With the horn at North Light still baying at 1100, the decision was made: this would not be the day to cross to Narragansett Bay, a decision affirmed later as radar (ain’t the Accuweather app great?!) showed all of Little Rhody’s 2,400 square miles covered with green and yellow.

Up Beach Road, a clam shell drive curves to the clouds.

But here on Block, the change in plans meant time for a brisk walk up the hill, just for a stretch of the legs. And that, of course, meant more stunning views, no matter where one looked, even under the boughs of a peach tree.

A deer dawdles in the shade under the spreading arms of a fruit tree.

The new electric outboard has proved to be a boon in port.

Meantime, the new Torqeedo electric outboard continues to change life aboard. The oars have yet to touch the water this trip while Torq smoothly zips the dink and two (or one, as the case may be) crew back and forth ‘tween boat and shore regardless of wind, wake or current. And when the sun’s out, the boat’s solar panel charges up the Torq battery in an hour or so. Good stuff.

But then, this is Blah Ki-lan, Ah-Rye. Waddya ‘spect?

Steadfast out.