We thought it was time to get out of the marina and many of our dock mates thought the same thing. The plan was to raft up at Watch Hill or more commonly, Napatree Point. The weather looked good so off we all went on Saturday morning. There were seven boats from our marina in two rafts.
We were close to the last ones to cast off and we had a wonderful ride down the Thames, east into Fisher's Island Sound as far as Stonington, Connecticut then through the very narrow channel that ends at Napatree Point or east into the Pawcatuck River and Westerly, Rhode Island. The two mile long entrance is quite shallow and there were lots of boats anchored just out of the channel on a long sandy spit of land. Frances took some pictures as we danced over the shallow spots.
Looks like deep water, but it isn't.
You can see the sandbar in this photo. When we went over it, our depth sounder indicated 2.8 feet.
But, like just about everyone else, we got into the anchoring area behind Napatree Point just fine. After a couple of calls on the radio, we found out raft-up mates. We doubt the accuracy of that depth reading because there were boats in there a lot bigger than ours.
The weather was perfect and Frances took the opportunity to photograph one of her favorite subjects: clouds
By Saturday afternoon there were lots of boats anchored on the sandy bottom close to the beach. Here's another Silverton setting anchor near us.
It's a short ride by dingy to Watch Hill where literally thousands of people come by car to visit the beach. Watch Hill has never impressed us but the beach is great if sitting on sand is of interest. Frankly, we prefer boats.
We rafted with two couples who really know how to set an anchor and have fun.
Pooka the boat cat settled in nicely. As you can see, he was almost overcome with excitement.
We shot some video of our trip in on Saturday that shows how nice an anchorage this really is. The sunsets aren't bad either.
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