Vineyard Haven, Martha's Vineyard, MA 2 August 2009

In order to travel from the Buzzards Bay side of the Elizabeth Islands off Massachusetts to Vineyard Sound and then on to Martha's Vineyard we passed through Woods Hole. This is a narrow passage between the town of Woods Hole on Cape Cod and Naushon Island, the first Island in the chain. The tides run hard here to 4 knots and we entered against the tide yesterday around midday and at times were only making about 2.5 knots of forward progress through the Hole. You can see the turbulent water.

These are very large buoys and they are bent over in the current. It is very hard to control our boat in these conditions and we were glad to be through it.

Here is the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

One of the endless stream of ferry boats that brings people, cars and trucks to Martha's Vineyard from Woods Hole and Hyannis.

The Tisbury Town Hall. The area was settled in the late 1600's

A local schooner at sunset. Something that is popular with the local turists.

We are anchored in the main harbor at Vineyard Haven and this morning the local yacht club had its starting line for Sunday races about 100 yards from our boat.

We will spend the day here as yet another cold front is coming through with the promise of more rain and then hopefully head to Nantucket tomorrow. It is about a 30 mile trip.