{"id":4270,"date":"2016-09-15T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/?p=4270"},"modified":"2016-09-15T16:25:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T16:25:57","slug":"scituate-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/?p=4270","title":{"rendered":"Scituate Overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DSCN8699\"<\/a>
\nJeez! I hate to leave Plymouth. So beautiful. So much to do and see. And the Plymouth Yacht Club\u00a0is a\u00a0gracious host. Their fifty dollar mooring fee gets you launch service, showers, and access to their bar. Nevertheless,\u00a0I’m itching to move on.
\nIt’s a warm, sultry morning.\u00a0I towel off the dew clinging to the deck chairs and plunk myself down on one to enjoy my coffee. The sun, although\u00a0still low in the eastern sky,\u00a0is already\u00a0kicking ass and taking names.\u00a0On shore, large trucks loudly scoop up full dumpsters and bang them back down. Commuters are walking and driving to their jobs. Shop owners unlock their doors and sweep the sidewalk. It’s obviously a weekday, which\u00a0means\u00a0there won’t be so\u00a0much boating traffic. Only working boats and a few recreational fishermen will ply these waters. This is a good. Like driving your car, it’s always better when there’s less traffic.\"DSCN8697\"<\/a>
\nSoon, my wife joins me with her own cup of java, and we enjoy a quiet moment together on the sun drenched aft-deck. For the time being, we are not among the working landlubbers, and I sense that she is as thankful for that as I am. Oh, we’ll be punching that clock soon enough, but for\u00a0now, timepieces are as superfluous as polished shoes.
\n“Ready?” she asks, taking that last sip.
\n“Yeah. Lets light ’em up,” I answer, and\u00a0make my way to\u00a0the\u00a0lower helm station.\u00a0The diesels start right up and thrum happily. The\u00a0XO, looking\u00a0quite adorable in her fuzzy pajamas, un-cleats the mooring pennant\u00a0and gives\u00a0Ginger Lee<\/em> her freedom. I back away slowly, being careful\u00a0of\u00a0neighboring boats and\u00a0the lines in the water. When the XO signals that we are clear, I shove the shifters forward and\u00a0make way towards the channel.
\n“PYC, PYC. This is motor vessel Ginger Lee<\/em> vacating mooring number two. Thank you so much for the hospitality in your awesome harbor. We’ll be back for sure. Ginger Lee<\/em> out.”
\n“Ah, you’re very welcome Ginger Lee<\/em>. Safe journey, and come back soon. PYC out”<\/p>\n

\"Bye-bye<\/a>

Bye-bye Plymouth.<\/p><\/div>\n

We leave the Bug Light to port, follow a working boat out into Cape Cod Bay, then head north past Duxbury Beach, Brant Rock, Humarock Beach, and the North River\u00a0<\/a>approach called New Inlet<\/em>. (Ha! The so-called “New Inlet” was formed from a storm in 1898!) After a few hours the familiar lighthouse that guards Scituate Harbor greets us warmly. “Welcome back kids! Why’d you stay away so long? I miss you guys.”\"DSCN9166\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Scituate<\/a>

Scituate Harbor Light.<\/p><\/div>\n

Oh yeah.\u00a0This place is\u00a0one of\u00a0our favorites, and\u00a0it has everything a cruising boater needs: fuel, provisions, booze, and restaurants. All conveniently located near the water. But\u00a0most of all, it’s just so\u00a0darn pretty. It really gets ahold\u00a0of you.<\/p>\n

\"Rainbow<\/a>

Rainbow over Scituate.<\/p><\/div>\n

Three marinas have moorings available, and they all answer on channel 9. Perhaps they take turns\u00a0with the transient renters, I dunno, and I guess I don’t care because they’re all very nice and attentive, and they all charge\u00a0the same price: 45 bucks.<\/p>\n

\"View<\/a>

View from our mooring.<\/p><\/div>\n

We’ve been here twice before,\u00a0and each visit was chock full of wonderful memories. The last time, our port engine quit as we approached the entrance to the harbor. It was a windy day and the current was pushy. So naturally, the launch driver who was showing us to our mooring, took the scenic route around several wicked expensive boats probably owned by lawyers. Because of the wind and the flow of the water, Ginger Lee<\/em> refused to turn left on just one engine.\u00a0After a near miss with a six figure\u00a0Hinckly, I hit the port engine starter, and to my surprise,\u00a0it fired right up and stayed running. With\u00a0the usual awesome twin-engine maneuverability, we caught the mooring with no lawsuits. A clogged fuel filter was the culprit. I always have plenty of spares on board so it was a quick fix. Click here<\/a> to read about a previous trip to\u00a0Scituate Harbor.<\/p>\n

\"Scituate<\/a>

Scituate Harbor scene.<\/p><\/div>\n

All boaters know that sometimes the weather and ocean conditions can boss you around. In order to take advantage of a good weather window, we make the decision to head out tomorrow morning to\u00a0a\u00a0place we’ve never been to: Hull Bay. I’m wicked psyched!<\/p>\n

\"Scituate<\/a>

Scituate sunset.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jeez! I hate to leave Plymouth. So beautiful. So much to do and see. And the Plymouth Yacht Club\u00a0is a\u00a0gracious host. Their fifty dollar mooring fee gets you launch service, showers, and access to their bar. Nevertheless,\u00a0I’m itching to move … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2TWzP-16S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4270"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4345,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions\/4345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickcoraccio.com\/boat\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}