Our plan for the day was to stay on a mooring in Noank at the home of a friend and sailing buddy of Michael Bracken’s. We took off from Norwich at 11:30 on a sunny day but as we cruised down the Thames River, it became very windy and quite chilly. There were white caps on the river and we were concerned that the Sound would be quite rough. It turned out that the Sound was calm and we think the rough water on the river was due to a wind tunnel effect.
We stopped for lunch at a mooring across from the UConn branch at Avery Point. The building in the photo below was the Plant mansion and is now part of the university.
After lunch, we had a quick one hour cruise and took another mooring at Steve Stollman’s home, our acquaintance from Key Biscayne who has a waterfront home in Noank. Jonny rowed us up to his dock.
We saw Steve working on a project in his yard. His historic home was built in 1754!
After chatting with Steve, we strolled through the charming Village of Noank, part of the Town of Groton. The village is filled with lovely, old, well-kept homes with beautiful gardens.
Steve invited us to return for a drink but it was getting late and we wanted to get back to Zendo. I made sausage and peppers and a salad for dinner and we watched a couple of episodes of Shameless which had been recommended to us. It was indeed, shameless!
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