East Greenwich, RI

We left our Point Judith anchorage at 9 on Sunday, July 7 to travel to our next destination in East Greenwich, RI.  It was very foggy and we waited a bit for some of the fog to clear before heading off.  The day had cleared up sufficiently so that plenty of people were at the nearby beach, even more than the previous day.

We had to travel onto open ocean at the end of Long Island Sound to cross over to Narragansett Bay.  The cruise was not too comfortable as we were taking it on the beam, but we arrived unscathed by 4:20.  Archie wasn’t thrilled with the rough passage but he got over it! 

East  Greenwich is near the top of the bay and we have a gift certificate so we could stay for free at one of the marinas there. It’s amazing how much water surrounds the state of Rhode Island!  East Greenwich is near Warwick on the map below and Point Judith is at the southernmost point of land just SSW of  Narragansett. 

We planned to stay at this marina for two nights so we could get a lot of things done, such as laundry and some boat maintenance. We had a won a gift certificate donated by a marina management company at the last MTOA  Rendezvous worth $1000! Unfortunately, there are very few of those marinas in the area we are cruising this year so we want to use it whenever we can. 

We contacted our friend Gerhard who lives nearby to see if he was available for dinner.  In 2022 he had taken care of Archie when we joined other MTOA members in Washington state where we all chartered trawlers to cruise the San Juan Islands.  Gerhard arrived around dinner time and after cocktails aboard Zendo we went to a local restaurant for dinner.  It was great to catch up with him. He was especially happy to see Archie after having just lost his sweet poodle, Beau, to cancer. 

Later that evening we strongly considered leaving early the next day because the winds and seas were forecasted to kick up.  Fortunately, however, we decided we could stay one more day as the winds and rougher seas were forecasted to hold off another day.  So we got a lot of our boat chores accomplished including laundry, defrosting, wiring, cleaning, etc. It’s a good thing that Jonny is as slim as he is to be able to fit into all the nooks and crannies of the boat. He has become incredibly adept at boat maintenance!

We had plenty of leftovers to eat and a well stocked refrigerator since Gerhard had kindly taken us to ShopRite to stock up. So we had an easy night before heading out to Cuttyhunk Island the next day.