We departed Provincetown on 1 Sep enroute Newport, RI, anchoring enroute off Cuttyhunk Island. We had a brisk sail across Cape Cod Bay in blustery winds, then a nice transit through the Cape Cod Canal, and beautiful sail down Buzzards Bay until the wind finally died about supper time. We motored the last couple hours into the Cuttyhunk anchorage.
The wind came up during the night at Cuttyhunk making our anchorage site uncomfortable so we pulled the anchor at 2am and set sail for Newport, arriving at first light. Entering Narragansett Bay, one gets to observe the dramatic shoreline scenery of rocks, mansions, the bay bridge and eventually the megayachts and hundreds of other sailboats in the Newport mooring fields. We were able to moor at the Naval War College for a night and visit with some fellow Island Packet owners, then we moved across the bay and anchored off Dutch Harbor and toured the quaint town of Jamestown. Click on the title above the photos for more photos of Newport.
