The weather has had us running faster than we can update our blog, but not to worry, we are in good places.

On leaving Cuttyhunk, we came up through the Cape Cod Canal, and tucked into Barnstable Harbor for a couple days. We’ll have more on that later, but it for now it is enough to say it is a great place to hide for everything–except a northeast blow. When a northeast wind up to 30 knots was forecast, we ran north to Provincetown, which has excellent protection from the North and Northeast. We grabbed a mooring here for a few days, which also gives us shelter from the local effects of Hurricane Erin.

But we have a day or two until Erin passes by, so tomorrow we are going to go out whale watching and tuna fishing.

One of the downsides of today’s media is the need to attract attention to generate revenue. The way to generate attention is with “clickbait” headlines. This is especially true when talking about a topic as mundane as the weather. the headlines make everything appear a lot worse than it will be. We watch the official forecasts closely, and avoid social media for our weather information. We expect to see winds of up to 30 knots or so on Thursday night and Friday morning. Not weather we want to be sailing in, but not really an issue in a protected harbor we secured.

Hopefully, tomorrow we will have whales and other sea stories to tell!