Joe - We were out on Narrangansett bay 2 weekends ago just of Warwick Point ..... I know there are some rocks there but when I saw this rock I tacked away thinking ... what the heck - I don't remember seeing that before. It was just below the lighthouse.
Anyway tacked again when it looked as if the rock was actually a shark fin...
But wait .... no its something else floating in the water ... Tacked back and got close and it was a dolphin! It was dead and the smell was pretty awful. We were one of a number of boats that "investigated" this.
Did you hear anything about a dead dolphin in the lower bay? I looked but did not see anything on the local news or ....
What a suprise.
Sailed around Hog on Sunday.
WHen will you pull Trinkka?
James
Ahoy there, James!
A dead dolphin? In Narragansett Bay? Who da thunk it!!!
Actually, I think it was back in the 1990s because my wife was cruising with me back then and she saw this. We anchored in a place called the "Creek" which is on the Bristol Harbor side of Hog Island and we walked part of the East Passage side of the island and came across a dead dolphin laying on the beach. I remember reading about it back then in the papers after that.
I didn't read anything or hear any news lately about a dead dolphin out in your area. Maybe no one has reported it yet. Nothing really surprises me about any of those waters including Mount Hope Bay and the Taunton River. One of the guys in my club caught a miniature barracuda in the river last year. They sited a Terrapin several years ago in Broad Cove next to our club. Years ago, I took my brother Bobby out on my boat and we were out by the Spar Islands and I saw a fish that was almost the size of my boat. I thought that it may have been one of those giant sunfish that you hear about. Bob didn't see it but I sure did, and boy was it huge. I think that we're going to see a lot more species of fish and wildlife in our area that we have never seen before. We have Fisher cats in our area of Taunton now. I won't be surprised to see moose pretty soon.
I pulled Trinkka out of the water about three weeks ago, and last Saturday I took her off the trailer in my yard and put her on boat stands. I do a little each day on account of this old Geezer gets tired out and fast don't sha know. Today I put the trailer up on blocks to get the wheels off the ground and I wrapped the mast with polytarp so my main tarp won't chafe on it when I get ready to cover the boat.
If the Blue fish came up the river and blitzed the waters in their usual feeding frenzy, I would have left her in the water for a couple of more weeks, but it never happened. Last year was the same way. Outside of that, I like doing overnighters on the boat and it's just too cold at night for that. As I grow older I detest the cold. It's nice to know that you're still out enjoying your boat this late in the season.
Smooth Sailing &
Warmest Regards,
Joe