Voyage to Nantucket

8/18/07 – Max had told Brian and I that the two of us would be sailing Glide over to Nantucket. During the morning, Max decided to captain the boat himself and bring a whole crew. I volunteered to drive Jaya, the 27’ fishing boat, over to Nantucket. I left Hyannis about two hours after they did and was bounced around quite a bit by large waves kicked up by a fierce wind. I saw Glide a little over half way to Nantucket. I came close to them and saw them beckoning me over. I came close and saw Max stripping down to jump in the water. He jumped in and I picked him up. He said that it was so rough that, “everyone is getting sick.” He came up with a plan to have the sickest people jump off Glide and have me pick them up on Jaya. They were terrified but jumped in and I picked them up. We drove Jaya out in front of Glide and Max jumped back into the ocean and made an amazing climb up the bow of Glide as she was bearing down on him. I took the folks on Jaya boat to Nantucket and dropped them off on one of the docks in town. I went back out in Jaya and realized that there was another round of seasick passengers. They also jumped into the ocean and I picked them up. I took them to a different dock in Nantucket before going out a third time. They were nearly in the harbor by then but there were a few passengers who wanted to get on the motor boat so that they could go to the bathroom sooner. I dropped them off at a dock and then motored over to Glide, who had just picked up a mooring. Max got on and drove us over to shore where he rounded up everyone who I had previously dropped off. Meanwhile, I went back out to Glide but just as I arrived, a huge boat came and people standing on the bow told me in a very stern voice that we were on their mooring. I had Brian take Jaya and motor around the harbor. I instructed Adam, the only other person on the boat, about how to grab the mooring when we got close. I had him cast off and I motored Glide around to grab a nearby mooring. We secured the boat and picked up Max on the shore. We needed to find a more permanent mooring so we did that with the little remaining light of the evening. We then got everyone on shore and took Jaya back to Hyannis Port for the evening.