As I write this Nico and I are anchored in Gloucester Harbor, snug in our cabin with the heat on. Yesterday we left South Freeport Harbor at dawn and rode a lovely SE breeze for 14 hours with speeds of up to 7.5 knots, reaching the entrance to the Annisquam Canal in the dark. It was very tricky entering the narrow channel at low tide with over 2 knots of current but we did it and even managed to snag a mooring on the first try. We had a late start day 2, waiting for slack tide to transit the canal. Everything went well, although we were a bit nervous going through the train bridge which was a bascule bridge (a drawbridge with only one portion that tips up). We had to hug the far side to get our mast through the really narrow opening. Gloucester Harbor is very well protected on this rainy, breezy day. Provincetown tomorrow.

 Loading the boat at South Freeport Harbor 9/7/18

 The castle, emblem of the Harraseeket Yacht Club.

Just one of the many loads to the boat.

A treat after a long passage from Gloucester to Provincetown, mostly in fog.

The skies cleared once we arrived. I took a bracing dip and a hot shower in the cockpit.