...yeah, I'm hoping Little Harbor will be do-able on this trip... weirdest feature of the weather this winter, is the wind has rarely made it around to the NE after a frontal passage. It blows hard for a while out of the NW, then drops to nothing, then straight back to the SE-S-SW in preface to the next front... so, at least getting trapped in a place like Little Harbor after a front has been unlikely...

I anchored off the beach at Gordons behind the SW tip of Long Island last winter, and rate it as one of the highlights of my cruise... that beach is beautiful, goes on forever, incredibly remote feel to that area... only downside, there was still a bit of surge even given the calm conditions, and you had to anchor pretty far out... this year I'd like to explore a bit more along that western shore, if you want to feel like you're the last people on Earth, that's a good spot for it... (grin)

Today, a new visitor to Clarence Harbor kept us all amused for awhile... some guy in a Hunter 40 shows up, expecting to find a slip in Flying Fish Marina... well, in weather like this, they get filled up pretty quickly, so he's out of luck... For a couple of hours, he's unable to get his anchor to hold... Seems he has a Delta or similar knock-off, no chain, only about 100 feet of rode... LMAO! He's positively BEGGING the marina to find space for him, no such luck... He even went back outside the harbor entrance, trying to find someplace to anchor... he tried to anchor behind me this morning, right in the middle of the mail boat channel into the wharf... I called him and told him that is a big no-no, the mailboat has very little room to maneuver there... so, guess what, right now he's anchored right off the mailboat dock again, showing no anchor light at the moment... the marina has told him the mailboat is due in overnight, I think everyone around here secretly hopes he gets t-boned tonight - unbelievable how clueless some of these guys can be, claims he just bought the boat, didn't know how short his rode was.... LOL!