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Beautiful fall day in Essex

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 Beautiful fall day in Essex October 5 & 6, 2024 We're going to the marina next door, should be an easy ride right? Right! First we have to wait for a boat to dock strugglingly. Then we undock strugglingly.  We're doing a good job though.  Then the Connecticut River is crowded, we're passed left and right and go around left and right.  In Essex there's a sailboat race, they are everywhere, tackling. And it's windy. Pictures don't captured that at all. We walked to the Connecticut River museum then we just chilled and go to bed early.  Sunday morning we're up early and go for a good walk. Essex is festive for Halloween.  What a beautiful day! The Black Seal decorations. We decide that we're coming back for lunch. And here we are.  Scott cannot resist the chicken parm. I don't feel like having the usual fish stew and I'm ordering a lite burger this time with a garden salad, perfect, just what I needed. He doesn't like the boat much but he l...
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Side by side with SeaTow

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  Captain Ben of Sea Tow Eastern Connecticut comes to the rescue at 9:16. Side by side, that's how they get boats out of a slip.  It makes sense but I never realized that. It's gonna be a long ride back. Well it's actually pretty relaxing. The sound is so calm. We cannot help to recall our 2 friends John and Toolman who were towed from Sag Harbor in rough seas.  So rough that the line snapped. John had to hook another one.  He couldn't walk on the bow so he went through the top hatch.  How scary!  Our adventure is way more mellow.  We are listening to our favorite music, Stephen Kellog and enjoying the view. So nice! So pretty! Even  New London is calm, New London is always choppy. We can see Long Island. Captain Ben is letting us go now In Hatchett Reef Captain Tom of Sea Tow Central Connecticut is taking us over. I guess it is a little suspicious asking to be rescue from a slip.  Scott was told that there's a limit of 25 miles.  But af...
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