s/v Kinvara: A Week in Block Island

The sunsets in Block Island are beautiful!!

Block Island, Rhode Island was the last stop we made leaving the New England Area in 2009 and our first stop returning this year in June. Our week was dominated by beautiful weather in which we relaxed on the boat, swam off the boat, and had company 4 times. Our first visitors were Don and Barbara Lane who had arrived a few days before us on the Island. They joined us on Kinvara for cocktails and dinner and we talked well into the evening. Next to arrive were Joe Pedro and his partner Jackie who came out for a day on Monday and decided to stay overnight and return the next day. Our yhird set of visitors were Glen and Ani from s/v Poia. They arrived in Block Island on Friday evening just before a long series of severe storms moved through. On Saturday morning they moved and rafted next to our boat. We had a wonderful time visiting and eating dinner out Saturday evening. Sunday morning our 2 girls, Sarah and Natalie, arrived on the early morning ferry. Jane walked to town to meet them and they walked back the mile to the harbor. We went to the beach with big waves for body surfing and had a great time just talking and sunning. Once back aboard we grilled Italian sausages for lunch then went into the town to stroll through the shops. The girls returned on the evening ferry happy but exhausted. We now sit watching the closing Olympic ceremony and will leave tomorrow to sail back to Newport for a week.

While here we watched the culmination of a fishing tournament with the weighing in of really large yellow fin tuna. One day a small sailboat motored through the channel with a man on the foredeck playing bagpipes. Sunday they left the harbor and he was again playing the bagpipes.