It was another exciting day. We woke up really early (4:30 am) to fog and went back to sleep. When we woke up for the second time, around 6:00, the fog had burned off and it was a beautiful day. We left Edgartown around 6:30. We let the dingy out on its long leash but quickly noticed it was taking on water again so this time we pulled it in tight and it was fine for the rest of the trip. We motored all the way to Menemsha because the wind was on our nose most of the way. We arrived in Menemsha around 11:00. Here are a couple of pictures from along the way.
Once in Menemsha we pulled up to the fuel dock and got diesel. The harbormaster sent us to a dock which was on the end of the pier. Rick didn’t want to back in so he drove close to the jetty and was turning around. The depth gauge read three feet but there wasn’t three feet of water because we were in the mud. Rick gunned the engine but we were stuck. The head harbormaster wasn’t in so the summer assistants called him and he said we should put out an anchor and wait for the tide to come up. It was about 11:45 and the tide was still going out. Low tide was at about 1:00. So we just waited and watched the coast guard practice rescue maneuvers outside the harbor. You can’t really tell from the pictures that we were stuck but here they are anyway.
At low tide the boat listed slightly to one side. A fisherman was helpful and took out anchor out into the channel. People along the dock were watching us and around 1:45 they said they could tell we were starting to float. Rick was on wheel and I was at the bow and I started pulling in the anchor. It pulled the boat forward and off whatever we were stuck on (the technical term for this is Kedging.). Luckily the bottom was muddy and sandy so no damage was done to the boat. With the help of four people on the dock we were able to dock without further incident. We breathed a sigh of relief!
I went over to the little restaurant to get Rick some chowder. We topped off our water tanks and did other boat chores. That evening Rick got a lobster dinner take out and we returned to the boat to cook my dinner. By then it was raining and it rained for most of the evening. Our boat is very cozy in the rain!