Provincetown-Plymouth MA

Plymouth Rock is pretty disappointing, and based on the Mayflowers’ 12 foot draft and harbor depth in 1680 this was not likely either the site nor the rock. We liked having a lot of walking on our own. Lots of history that we had forgotten or never learned. Conditions on the Mayflower must have been unbelievably awful.

The weather has been beautiful. Hurricane Erin a few weeks ago really mucked up the last run of this cruise. It’s a very unusual business model that a cruise line company designs and builds it’s own vessels and owns and operates the coaches that provide shore excursions. But it must be working since it’s massively expanding and building new ships all year! Plymouth is a lot less crowded with tourism and tourist shops than Provincetown. It still seems odd how every NE harbor seems to be all mooring balls and no docks.

We’re observing how trailer boats with a weather window could negotiate all these hidey-hole islands and rivers to make a New England cruise, or maybe even down the St Lawrence and Canadian Maritimes (Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick) to get here! We’ll research making that a variation on our upcoming repeat of the Triangle Loop into Canada. We only need to complete 400 miles (C&D to NY to Albany) to complete our Loop started in 2017.Read more