June 21, 2009 To celebrate the first day of summer we are hunkered down in Beverly, MA listening to NOAA (the weather gurus) warn of an "unusual gale center" heading our way with 45 knot winds, 15 foot seas, rain and fog. Well all righty then! When we wrote last we were already getting less desirable weather than we had experienced up through the Carolinas and the Chesapeake. While in New York the meteorologists lamented that we were well on our way to the coldest, wettest June on record. What does all this do to our cruising lifestyle? It changes it, of course but we have still been enjoying our arrival in New England. Much of Long Island Sound is part of New York which is not REALLY New England but let's not split hairs. One
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