Little Compton to Marthas Vinyard

light house at Aquinah, Marthas Vinyard, MA

It's been a while since I took this trip, but since nothing went seriously wrong, I have been having trouble getting up ambition to write about it. Without major catastrophe I don't get too excited.
I left from Town Landing at Little Compton, RI, sailed out across RI Sound and the mouth of Buzzards Bay, through Cuttyhunk harbor and out to Aquinah. When I arrived I was tired, so I tossed out the anchor I made last year and crawled into the cabin to snooze. It took about 6 hours for the trip.

Gondwa Naland at anchor off Aquinah

The next morning I woke around 5 and paddled ashore in an inflatable kayak I brought along as a tender. I wandered up the beach looking for a bath house. I found it. It was closed. I went back to Gondwa and packed up.

sunrise off aquinah

I headed along the little cove I was in under jib alone until I was better sheltered from the gentle waves. I heated some soup, packed up and headed back out to Little Compton. About a half mile out the pleasant breeze that was moving me along at something like three knots died completely.

Gondwa Naland sailing herself in flat calm seas - wind speed ~ zero

I spent the whole day drifting with just enough wind to hold the sail to leeward with infrequent bits of breeze giving me a gentile shove. I got a pretty good sunburn and took a few pictures.

Just at the mouth of the harbor at Little Compton there is an island with a few cool bits of ruins from a building long since gone that give it the look of Easter Island or Stonehenge.
With a little luck (my kind of luck) my next trip will be a bit more adventurous!