Still...in...Nantucket....

Bill and I are still in Nantucket. We were supposed to leave on Monday, but extended our stay last week until Wednesday so we could see some more of the sites. Then on Wednesday we extended our stay another night so we could get our mail (which was delivered to Nantucket Moorings) and stay in Cuttyhunk only one night instead of two. Today, Thursday, we decided to stay another day because of some nasty weather that is supposed to come our way. Since we do an average of 8 knots (sailing or motoring) there is no way for us to "outrun" a storm. Bill made the decision after getting a head's up from Captain Dave, then listening to the marine forecast and reading online to stay here safe and sound on our mooring for another night. As the Captain, Bill makes all decisions related to navigation and weather, etc. I always 100% trust his decisions either way (but am glad we won't have to deal with any "hail and damaging winds" today!) Here is the weather report:

Nantucket Sound-
Today S winds 15 to 20 kt with gusts up to 25 kt. Seas 2 to 4 ft. A chance of showers with a slight chance of tstms until late afternoon...then showers likely with a chance of tstms early this afternoon. Patchy fog. Some tstms may produce heavy rainfall...large hail and damaging winds early this afternoon. Vsby 1 to 3
nm.

Tonight S winds 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 20 kt. Seas 2 to 4 ft. Showers likely with a chance of tstms. Patchy fog in the evening. Some tstms may produce heavy rainfall...large hail and damaging winds. Vsby 1 to 3 nm.

Right now it is pretty choppy and there is about 20 kts of wind (and rising) in the mooring field and the sky is getting darker. So looks like we are in for another afternoon on the boat. I am going to do a good cleaning down below and hopefully finish my cross stitch. There are also a few boat maintenance projects that we are going to work on as well as continue to make reservations for Annapolis, etc.

So we have been mostly hanging out on the boat the past few days. We did some errands yesterday and had sushi for lunch. We also walked around and found the beach at Brant Point (and saw the lighthouse up close). A few more v-e-r-y big boats have been in and out of the harbor - to include My Shanti, which is listed as one of the top 100 boats in the world. After watching the Red Sox win in the 12th inning last night, we made dinner (bacon and egg wraps) and watched a movie.

I have been bad about taking pictures for some reason, so I don't have many to share. Except for this one of a sign that we saw at a dog park the other day, which made us both do a double-take then laugh out loud. Enjoy.