Tuesday, August 12 - Day 3 - Depart Cape Cod for Newport, Rhode Island

After waiting for a favorable Canal Tide, we finally are able to leave Sandwich and enter the Cape Cod Canal which leads to Buzzards Bay which leads to Block Island Sound to west or Nantucket Sound to east.  We head west towards Newport, RI. arriving late in afternoon with a forecast of bad weather for next day.  A zillion other boats also head to Newport with that forecast and we are only able to secure a "floating dock".

It is an isolated "dock to nowhere" with no services or direct shore access like a normal dock.  The nice marinas in Newport with fancy docks are high budget and the moorings are all reserved, so we take what we can get and plan for a 2-night stay.  We get assistance tying up as the dock is hard by rocks forward and the winds are piped up blowing us off sideways.

We dine in, too tired to take a long windy launch ride downtown.  We are in a sheltered Breton Cove area hard by Fort Adams, a long way from the Newport "action".

CAPE COD CANAL TRANSIT - BOURNE RAILROAD BRIDGE:

THE ROUTE FROM SANDWICH TO NEWPORT

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OUR DOCK TO "NOWWHERE' - BRETON COVE, NEWPORT, RI