Thank you to the New Bedford Working Waterfront Festival - volunteers, committees, boats and fishermen for providing us with a wonderful weekend. We ate fish, crab, mussels, scallops, and clam chowder. We listened to sea chanties, poets, story tellers, and writers. We walked the waterfront, boarded fishing boats and talked with friends. One man who came to visit the Richard & Arnold told us his father  had captained our boat back in the 1940's. We met people from Alaska, Canada, New Jersey and we reunited with friends we hadn't see in years - what a treat. Even the rain couldn't dampen the spirits of all in attendance. And to top it off- our ride home was a beauty. The sun came out as we left New Bedford Harbor, the wind was light - variable, with a full moon rising. We did a whopping 12.5 knots through the Cape Cod Canal and 8.5 across Cape Cod Bay. The Richard & Arnold is now back in her berth at MacMillan Wharf in Provincetown waiting for her next trip.