A Visit To The Boat Basin

I have been avoiding the crowds downtown all summer. Now that the people are starting to leave the island, I snuck down to the docks to have a look around. Nantucket will not be livable again until after Labor Day.


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I KNEW Elvis wasn't dead!!!

I always have to laugh when I see those "PRIVATE No Boarding" signs on yachts down at the docks. What makes the owners think I would ever want to board their ugly boats? Give me an old Harvey Gamage Eastern-Rig any day. THOSE are real boats!!!

I'm not sure why this 30' boat has 1,400 horsepower on her stern.


A Med-Moored boat's several toys.

Fourth Of July 2012

Hard to believe it's the Fourth of July. Summer is more than half over now much to my delight. Nantucket has become unlivable during the summer. The rudeness and traffic is way out of control. I'm looking forward to January February and March when we can have our island back. I went out in my boat today to escape the madness on shore for a few hours. I cruised around the inner harbor and took a few pictures-

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Quite Waterfront/ Mike Allen's New Boat

It's very quiet around the waterfront now. In a week it will be the Fourth Of July. The halfway point of the summer. Hard to believe summer is half over already. The days are shorter by a min now. The weather finally warmed up a little after a very cold and windy spring. I wandered around the docks early this morning to investigate as I do most every morning. There are a few interesting boats there. One is a Hinckley that Kirby Jones is running. Looks as though her sides are shaved off towards her stern. And the usual suspect, Belle, Is at her summer slip at the fuel dock along with the Sea Owl. And I noticed Mike Allen built a beautiful new boat lately. She is located right near the A&P parking lot. I stopped and looked her over for a long time. She has really nice lines. Mike did a beautiful job building her.

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Belle
Kirby Jones getting a Hinckley ready to run over to Hyannis.
Belle.
Quiet Boat Basin And Sea Owl.
Mike Allen's new boat he built.
Mike Allen's new boat he built.
Mike Allen's new boat he built.
Mike Allen's new boat he built.

Sea Owl

The Summer That Never Was

It was bound to happen eventually. The summer that never was. We were long overdue for it. As I type this we are in the middle of a northeast gale. Boats are washing up on the beaches around the waterfront where they will stay wrecked forever never to be cleaned up. It's been cold, rainy and windy so far this summer. We have had a few nice days but they have been few and far between. In two and a half months summer will be over. Hopefully we can salvage September. I guess the only good news is that our winters have been nice and hot the past few. I snuck down to the waterfront late this afternoon to take a look at the storm-

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Children's Beach Boat Ramp closed off in preparation for the storm surge.
Toscana's tug and barge holed up at the Steamship Authority's south slip riding out the blow.
M/V Grey Lady heading to Hyannis in the storm.
A wrecked scallop boat beached at the Cricks.
Wrecked boats littering the waterfront never to be removed.
A rough general anchorage.