We had great sailing weather, and my wife and I took advantage of it. It was dry, cool and blustery, but not too strong. Winds were 10-25 knots, generally in the 15-20 knot range from the NW, which gave us great reaching conditions along the CT and NY coasts in Long Island Sound. I set the trim and locked the AP to the wind angle, trimmed a bit more and got comfortable to enjoy the ride. It was the kind of day where most boats would sail at their best. It's noteworthy that despite the sailing conditions not one boat that was towing a dinghy was sailing, and we passed several.

We sailed SW from CT down to Manhassett Neck (aka Sands Point), which is the land in the left portion of this image. (This image was taken from north of Hempstead Harbor.) The square building with lighthouse in the center is Execution Rocks Lighthouse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_Rocks_Light which supposedly got its name in colonial times when convicts were chained to the rocks at low tide and they drowned as the tide came in. The land to the right of the lighthouse is mostly New Rochelle NY, and of course the Manhattan Skyline is in the background. The New World Trade Center and Wall Street rise to the left, and the Empire State Building and midtown rise to the right.

Sorry about the glare and poor quality, but I was shooting into the sun with a handheld 5x zoom Point & Shoot camera, and this is a cropped image.

Just as we were returning and about 2 miles from our mooring we saw rain approaching, and as we tied up we were hit with a brief rain squall and gusts to 30k. We hooked up and waited it out... only about 15 minutes, to be treated to a beautiful clearing sky and the sheets of rain formed a striped rainbow as it was falling opposite the sun at our backs. You can see the streaks of rain in the rainbow. The sky was so clear we felt like we could see 50 miles.