Sunday Sailing

We woke up on Sunday morning to the wind blowing 20-25kts and with a forecast of gusts upto 30kts. We were all determined to go sailing but decided that it would be better to stay within Narrangansett Bay where the sea state was much calmer.

We left our mooring buoy in Newport Harbour around 10am. With the wind increasing up to 28kts we decided to leave the mainsail alone for the time being and just pulled out the Staysail. We sailed under Newport Bridge, which, even with a 70ft clearance above our mast still looked incredibly close! We swapped the Staysail for the Genoa and sailed nicely at around 7kts up the Bay. At one point we were sailing, close hauled, at 9kts with only the Genoa!

We anchored in a quiet bay on Prudence Island, which is in the middle of the Bay, and had a BBQ for lunch. With the wind on the nose we motored back to Newport dodging plenty of lobster pots along the way. It was a great day and the Owners seemed happy to have finally sail Moonraker again.