We were up and off the ball by 6:20 this morning. The wind was light so we motor sailed to the little village of Menemsha, part of Chilmark, on Martha’s Vineyard. Initially, I didn’t feel too well becauce the seas were pretty choppy and it always takes a day for me to get use to the motion. I watched the horizon and evetually I was fine. There were a lot of lobster pots so I sat on the bow as the lobster pot lookout. Luckily we kept the lobster pots at bay. We has a following tide which allowed us to make good time. We came into Menemsha harbor around 11. We were on the pier and docking was easy with the help of the harbor master.
The village of Menemsha is tiny. It consists of a beach and two lobster shacks. It’s a fishing community with lots of commercial fishing boats. I think they catch a lot of swordfish here because there is a swordfish scuplture, a swordfish weathervane, and the special at one of the lobster shacks was swordfish. The town was featured in Jaws and it’s where the great white shark came into the harbor.
For lunch, Rick has seafood chowder from one of the lobster shacks and he said it was excellent. I had a turkey sandwich. In the afternoon, we took a dinghy ride up to Menemsha pond (about a 10 minute dinghy ride), walked along the beach, and watched the comings and goings in the harbor. It was very relaxing.
As you can see from the pictures below it was a nice day but not very warm (even though some people braved the cool temperatures on the beach).
Here are some pictures of Menemsha.
That evening Rick had a little neck clams and a lobster roll; he’s in food heaven! I had a PB&J. We prepped the boat to leave since it’s supposed to rain tomorrow and if possible we want to avoid sailing in the rain. We are back on the sailing schedule. Get up early, go to bed early!