One of my aims for this cruise was to visit as many ports and anchorages in Rhode island as we can. There are nearly 30 of them and I have sailed in only ten in prior seasons. One on the list is Wakefield. The modern town is huge but the historic village is that small part located at the top of Point Judith Ponds, where the Saugetuckett River empties into the Ponds. The pink line on the chart shows our way in, and back,
But the route looked suspiciously both shallow and narrow so I had called a marina and was advised against bringing in a 43 foot boat with a 5' 10" draft without local knowledge. So, armed with InavX on Lene's Ipad we went in by dink.
Upon departure we saw the result of someone rounding Gardner Island a bit to closely -- and getting caught on the shoal extending out from it. (When we got back in the afternoon the tide had risen and he was off.)
We put three gallons of high test in the dink's tank and stopped at the Ram Point Marina's office. Locke, the Yard Manager, was very helpful. He drove me to a shopping mall about two miles away to mail a package, and his office manager made a photocopy for us, told us the way to the historic district and recommended several restaurants. All this help before I told him about the blog. We lunched at The Tavern on Main and the food was good, the service friendly and efficient and the price right. We strolled among the historic buildings of the old main street which is in the National Registry of Historic Places.
I got a new lock for the dink to replace the collection of keys and locks, none of which fit each other, got a copy of the Narragansett Times and all told put four miles on my cell phone's step counter.
After a day like yesterday, when we did not set foot off the boat, a bit of exercise is good. Salad for dinner and another quiet night. We are making dates with friends. Hadley and Susan, former Harlemites who have lived here for maybe fifteen years, and Rhoda and Lloyd, current Harlemites, who are coming this way by auto.
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