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November 2020: Shamal and her Crew have arrived safely back into Opua, Bay of Islands, New Zealand completing their circumnavigation a year ago. Due to Covid-19 and New Zealand's Boarders being closed, they will continue to spend their 2020/21 Summer exploring some of New Zealand's waters. Thanks to all of you for following our Adventures. There will be more.

18 November 2015

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Return

071 Provincetown Hello again

We left you with the last Post in Provincetown.  It has been to date one of our favourite places. In fact the whole of the Cape Cod area is quite enchanting with charming towns and villages with streets lined with historical old homes. Shops and galleries selling lovely arts and crafts, restaurants with a variety of seafood  - lobster in particular, fresh from the ocean.   US history more or less started in this area so there is no shortage of places to visit and things to see.

Now we are at the beginning of September and quite far north.  With the fall soon to be upon us we must keep moving north and see as much as we can.  Most “normal” folk are now moving south, or thinking very seriously about moving south, for the winter months !!!!!

008 Cohasset

We leave Provincetown on Wednesday 6th September avoiding lobster pots and whales.  We are heading for the town of Scituate, some 30nm away.  We are able to sail all morning, but in the afternoon loose the wind so are motoring again.  Late afternoon we are just off the entrance to what we think is Situate.  I call on the radio to ask if we can pick up a mooring buoy.  The long and short of it is we are not entering Scituate Harbour at all, but Cohasset some 7nm further north !!!!!  Alec had entered Cohasset into the chart plotter.  The harbour master in Cohasset came on the radio to say I was entering her Harbour and yes she would come out and meet us and gave us a mooring for the night.  We all had a good laugh over that one.