I am beginning to feel like Bill Murry in the movie Ground Hog Day. Every day I wake up and the wind is blowing 40-50 and it is raining like hell. We are still holed up at the Hampton Yacht Club, winds forcast to be 30-40 today. Don't know what the biggest gust was last nite as the power was turned off due to the tidal surge being 5 feet above normal high. So no weather channel and the anemometer at the club was electric so couldn't monitor it. The forcast was for 60 mph gusts and I think we got that. Power should be back on this morning sometime.
Lots of folks showed up last nite for a Storm party at the club. With no power they had candles all over the place and a camp light at the bar. Got a shower with some of the remaining hot water.
The electrical service pods on the floating docks made it thru ok, but the ones on the bulkhead were completely under water and they are 2 1/2 feet tall. A laser came floating by the club and someone waded out onto the sidewalk to salvage it, just to add to the wackiness of the night.
I will try to catch up some of the days in the begining of the trip since we are stuck again today.

October 30
Launched at Great Bay Marina, Portsmouth, NH around 12:30 after the centerboard pendant was replaced while hanging in the slings of the travel lift. Yard adjusted stuffing box in the slings post launch since this was repacked when the replaced the cutlass bearing. New bottom paint looks good.
Fueled up and managed to fit our 9' Eli dinghy on the coach roof under the the fore boom. The dinghy obscures the running lights a bit but, not too bad.
Shoved off at 4 pm and had a fair current to take us down river the the Sarah Lawrence and Memorial Bridges down stream. Cleared the mouth of the river at 7 PM and started motoring into a 20 knot headwind as we attepted to time our arrival at he cape cod canal for 7 am to catch the tide right. Slow progress and very cold and wet making 3.5 to 4 knots thru the night. Haven't used my gps all summer and the fresh batteries which are now dead, spare batterie are somewhere in the pile and piles of gear, so we deadreconned past Cape Ann and out towards the Cape Cod. Put the mainsail up to steady us and required tacking thru 80 degrees to keep it from luffing. Autopilot working hard but well.

October 31 Holloween
Wind building at daylight and decided to duck into Provincetown since we were not going to make much progress aginst the 30 knot headwind. As we reached along the beach into Ptown we got a 2 foot rip in the main. The harbor master put us a a nice slip and we squared away the boat after a tough night.
Quite an adventure finding a sailmaker to repair the sail on a Sat. eve off season. After much checking around and good luck we managed to locate the only one on Cape Cod that could or even would do it, only hitch they were 30 miles away in Orleans. We got a cab and had a nice chat with Rose the driver who was not only in costume like 90 percent of the rest of the adults there ( you know any excuse to dress up in drag is a good one!) but a charter captain for her Island Packet 30 which she has been living aboard for 8 years. Lots in common to talk about on the way.
So I said to Lee the sailmaker, "Not to rush you but the cab driver is charging us $1 a minute to wait". She was very nice and had the sail loft built right into the house, got it done in a jiffy while hubby grilled the chicken. So this little repair cost 35 bucks, but the cab ride was$140, ouch!
Saw a 300 pound tooth fairy (gay guy of course) on our way to dinner at the "Pig". Got entertained by 20 gouls and zombies doing a line dance to Michael Jackson's Thriller. Well the correography was to die for daalhing and they were all well practiced. Quite the sight (where's the camera when you need it!)
Gotta run and work on more wiring. More later