Point Judith

Our intent today was to do a long sail to Fishers island but the wind and waves had other ideas! We are now not protected in Buzzards Bay and are open to the full fetch of the Atlantic, esp an east wind that has been blowing for a few days. The wind was mostly behind us and over 20 knots, that was not the problem though, the waves were quite high (> 7 or 8') which made for concentrated steering to keep the stern into a wave. Tiring and not required, so after 3 hours we decided to go into Point Judith inner harbour. It is quite shallow in spots coming in (we got as low as 2.2' under the keel) and it was a very strong current as the tide was  going out so could we only manage 1.8 knots at times. There are nice anchorages behind some islands in less than 7 ft of water. After we got anchored someone came over and asked us to move as we were in a cultivated oyster farm. There are some buoys in the water (as most places down here) but it did not indicate anything special,  nor do the charts, so up the anchor went and we moved about 50 meters. Tomorrow the wind and wave height look about the same so we are not sure what are plans are. Some pictures of coming into the harbour.