11-Oct-2016: Bear transits from Waquoit Bay to up near
Wareham, where she'll be stored for winter.
This is a bi-yearly ceremony.
The wind was unexpectedly weak on the first leg from the Waquoit inlet through the channels at Woods Hole, so we spent a lot of that on the motor. Only after clearing the channel into Buzzard's Bay could we really get to some *sailing*. [Read my first introduction to this craft, with more technical observations] |
Around the lunch break I finally fetched out the camera, and went forward for a view aft of the wake with the crew sort of huddled down over food. |
Lots of water ahead; clearing Woods Hole was only about a third of the trip. |
Colorful jackets and PFDs. It wasn't all that chilly after all, but still not quite warm enough to start shedding layers, and of course our progress was making the wind artificially stronger. |
Very little traffic out today -- a normal weekday, substantially into the off-season time.  Still, there were a couple of near encounters. |
Buttoning up after arrival at Mark's Inlet.  Rolling the mainsail onto the boom ... |
... and then the jib, such that the combination gave a roll of uniform thickness with no net taper along it. |
Looking back at Bear on the final dinghy run to shore. She looks like some sort of weird aircraft from either end... |