Last year, Emily and I never saw another sailboat when we were offshore. This summer, Rick and I saw six sailboats - the one I will talk about in this post and a group of five boats that we encountered about 70 miles east of Block Island which were evidently in the Newport-Bermuda race. One of those boats even had to change course to avoid us. None of those boats had much of a radar return and none of them talked to us on the radio - I guess they were a little too busy racing!
The nicer story was s/v Wendigo, a cruising catamaran (ca. 38 ft.?) that hailed us as they motor-sailed near us (no wind that day). They were sailing from Florida to Noank, CT, and had specifically come close to us to chat. It was nice talking to them on channel 68 before each boat headed on its way.
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