Onset, MA

First thing in the morning on Saturday, September 3, we walked up to Cumberland Farms in Rockport to buy several gallons of water to tide us over for a few days since we lost our ability to use our water onboard. We then left our anchorage by 7:30 for a 9 hour cruise to Onset. We were originally going to go to Provincetown but the water situation caused us to want to get to Falmouth a day early to get the problem resolved.

We had a wonderfully smooth cruise crossing along the outside of Massachusetts Bay.  Jonny actually saw a whale and a sunfish but so briefly that I didn’t get to see them. But a bit later we were surrounded by a large pod of dolphins who swam along with us for over ten minutes. There must have been at least 30 of them! How cool!

The wind picked up towards the end of the day as we got to the Cape Cod Canal.  Fortunately that passage went smoothly as well. We picked up a mooring in Onset which is part of the town of Wareham and were surprised to see so few boats in the harbor there. There is a big anchorage nearby which we ordinarily would have used but chose not to because Jonny didn’t want to deal with a mud bottom and the lack of available water to hose down the anchor and chain.  So we grabbed a mooring in the town harbor and immediately dinghied in to town.

We walked around the town a bit before having dinner at the Stone Bridge Pub.  The town was fairly busy with families enjoying the beach and holiday weekend.

After dinner we went back to Zendo passing the, by now, empty beach.  Later on we were rewarded for our long day of cruising by an absolutely fabulous sunset!