Arriving in Block Island

We made good time, making up for any veering off-course to arrive at the entrance to Great Salt Pond with an hour or so of daylight to spare.  The anchorage was blissfully unpacked.  Despite loads of room to anchor, we found ourselves following Mike’s lead and took a mooring ball.  We’d talked to him about an hour or so before we were coming in the entrance and he told us the mooring ball behind Bent was still empty.  By the time we got there, it wasn’t and we picked up mooring ball number 37 and tidied up to meet our friends at The Oar.

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Text messages

When we turned our phones on again, we were able to catch up with some of our friends via text messages.
 
· Sun Jun 24 12:55 p.m. Moon to Bent: How you guys making out? Are you there yet?! We are just north of ac. Al had an alternator issue but is fixed & they are ~25 miles behind us. What about you?

· Mon Jun 25 12:33 am (delivered Mon Jun 25, 2:15 pm), Bent to Moon: 25 miles from entrance buoy at block. Lined it up from 70 miles out and Laying it. Expect some turbulence in the straight. Keepin an eye on the weather.

And then there were two…

One of the hardest things about putting together any race, rally, raft-up is getting everyone’s schedules to mesh and then hoping nothing goes wrong.  Unfortunately even the best-laid plans go awry and all the boats we thought were coming on the rally dropped off one by one before we left the dock on Saturday morning.  Finally, by Monday afternoon, Al & Patty texted to say that they were not going to continue on the way to Block Island.  After alternator issues, and seeing the storms, they opted to stay put in Atlantic City for the rest of their vacation.

· 2:20 pm, Moon to Full Circle: We ran into some rain last night & storms this am but all’s well. We r 25 miles from marker & expect to be in Block by evening. Hope all’s well there.