Move to Constitution

It is time to do the annual migration from Winthrop to Charlestown. It is usually bittersweet, with the mixed feelings of another summer passed, and a change of environment, and more quieter times.

This is the first time Danielle is riding on Waterdancer. If one looks back to our blogs, there is always some kind of picture of our migration.

This is Waterancer's first year, and we have not really sailed her at all, since we got her so late in the season.

Tapalong our beloved little 13 ft Whaler is coming with us for the trip. Eventually she will be sitting on the dry on her trailer avaiting new exciting trips. It has been a really fun vessel, very dry and is perfect to go around the harbor. We are expecting a lot of fun with her next year.

Well, Waterdancer will be at Constitution until April, at which point we will make the trip back to her mooring/slip in Wintrhop

S/V Waterdancer

Welcome to the S/V Waterdancer blog. She is our new boat, a 1990 Irwin 43 MKIII.
A very roomy, comfortable boat, that can, although not a bluewater sailor, take a good amount of sea, and take us anywhere we care or dare to go.

We have purchased her in October 2008 from Westbrook, Ct. and
did her first trip delivering her from Westbrook to Boston, MA.
Here is a movie of her sailing at 8.4 knots up Massachusetts bay

(Yes we were in a hurry, so we were motorsailing :):) )

The trip took us a total of 2 hours. She performed faster and easier than I would have ever dared to. We ended up 4 hours early at Cape Cod Canal, so we had to stop by at Onset, around 1 am, where we grabbed a mooring and took a nap.

By 12:30 the following day, she was sitting at her slip in Winthrop, MA