September 5, 2015
We left
port at about 1050hrs. Engine hours read
3164.3.
Elaine and
I were headed over to Brewer’s East yard in Warwick Cove to get diesel fuel for
our port tank. It was about a 45 minute
ride over to the fuel dock. It is a well
marked channel but is a little narrow and twisty in some places. It was a Saturday morning and there was a lot
of boat traffic. As we were entering the
channel the harbor master motioned for us to slow down. We were careening through the water at almost
6kn so I slowed down to about 4.5kn to make him happy. I was about to slow down anyway as this was
where the channel makes an S-turn.
We got to
the fuel dock and only had to wait for one boat to finish up. We got in and out with no problems and fueled
up with no problems. The fuel dock is
two slips on an outside dock right on the channel. We made extra sure that we were putting
diesel into our tank. We put 65 gal.
into our port tank and with our Brewer discount it was only $170.
It was such
a nice day that we decided to cruise around for a bit. We rounded Warwick Point and headed up the
Providence River for a while. We went up
to about Nayatt Point and then circled around the bay toward Bristol Heights
and then back home.
The seas
were smooth, 1ft or less, and the wind was light out of the southeast at
5-10 mph. Weather was sunny with blue skies and about
75-80 degrees. It was like cruising on a
big lake.
We were
tucked back safely in out slip by 1400hrs. with the engine hours reading 3167.4.
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