Plymouth and Onset, MA

Plymouth
Friday, August 16 - We had unexpected heavy rain yesterday afternoon for about an hour. Luckily we saw it coming and got things downstairs and closed the windows before it hit. It still soaked the cushions in the cockpit and created a lot of fog in the morning. We had planned to leave Rockport at 7:30 a.m. but waited until 8:30. Fog had not lifted but we left anyway after getting a report that it was lighter further out. Winds were only 5 knots coming from port quarter and stayed that way all day. We anchored near Plymouth at 3:30 p.m.

Onset, MA
Saturday, August 17 - It was a cloudy and cold 66 degrees with winds between 15 and 18 knots when we left Plymouth at 8:15 a.m. Great for sailing but unfortunately straight at us. I suggested to Kevin we could tack a lot since the next destination was only 20 miles but he said we needed to time our arrival into Cape Cod Canal with the current. We entered the canal at 10:30 a.m. and got a mooring ball in Onset harbor by noon. A couple that we met in New London suggested Onset as a nice small town to visit and so we decided to check it out. We went out to dinner with Renee and Gary for what was our official goodbye. They were moving on towards Martha’s Vineyard the next day and we were staying for a few more days then headed to New London to see Tracy and Erwin.

Sunday, August 18 - We moved off the mooring ball and anchored outside the mooring field.. For lunch we went into town to Marc Anthony’s, a pizza place that we passed the night before and then again in the morning when I used the launch service to get a few stables from the convenience store. The window was open where they make the pizza and it smelled wonderful!! I told Kevin we had to go there and was not disappointed! Onset is a very small town with several restaurants and ice cream shops. There is a convenience/liquor store, laundromat, and Ace hardware on three corners of one intersection that is 2 blocks from the dinghy dock. And that’s about it! No art galleries or fancy boutique shops, maybe one souvenir shop. But it has a rather large beach that is not deep but it is long. The town was busier at night than Rockport, I think because it’s a summer hangout for neighboring towns. After lunch we took Pep to Wickets Island, a very small piece of land in the middle of the harbor. It is surrounded by trees and there is a tall staircase by the landing dock. At the top is a plateau of mowed grass and a nice lookout of the harbor.

Monday, August 19 - We stayed in Onset an extra day to wait out the storm system that came from the south. We got heavy rain in the early morning and scattered showers throughout the day. I did major cleaning trying to keep the boat mold free.もっと詳しく