• Newport-Martha's Vineyard, MA

    September 11 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F

    Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket islands off Massachusetts are both popular tourist visiting sites about 30 water miles apart. The Nantucket port can’t accommodate the 250 foot American Patriot, so it docks in Martha’s Vineyard and provides tickets on the 30 MPH Fast Ferry cat to Nantucket on the first day. The second day allows us to explore Martha’s Vineyard.

    The water conditions in the Gulf of Maine overall are manageable by a trailer boat using our usual system of reserving every third or fourth day as a ‘weather/option’ day. We are planning to keep open the option of turning our second Triangle Loop in Canada into a Down East Loop by continuing down the St Lawrence River into the Atlantic and around Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to Maine, rather than turning south at Sorel towards Lake Champlain. That option can be easily aborted if it’s too rough or (at 2,400 miles) too long.

    The weather has been beautiful, with cool, crisp mornings and evenings and sunny low humidity days in the low 70’s while it’s still in the 90’s at home.
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