The key about traveling through Long Island Sound is paying attention to the currents and using them to your advantage. This is where the Eldridge Tide and Pilot book comes in handy. It has already paid for itself in the fuel savings. Sometimes we will leave later in the morning so we can get a favorable push. To work against the current would burn more fuel and take much longer. Today we left Port Washington at 11am and arrived to our destination about three hours later. The anchorage is a large area and there were a ton of boats there already. I noticed on the charts there was a thin sliver of deep water close to shore away from everyone else so we found our way over there. We dropped anchor and made sure all was secure. We were fairly close to shore so getting Frank back and forth shouldn’t be difficult. It was finally a hot day and we ended up getting the rafts out and floating around enjoying the water and the sun. At one point Lauren’s raft came u tied from the boat and I had to ‘rescue’ her in the dinghy and drag her back to the boat. It was a great afternoon and we thoroughly enjoyed it. We discovered that Billy Joel has a home on Centre Island but he did not drop by for a visit 
Day 2- We had such a good time we decided to stay another day. In the morning we were surrounded by rowing practice, but they didn’t stick around us too long. We walked over to the beach on the ocean side and checked that out, otherwise we just had a tranquil day. Tomorrow we plan on going to Port Jefferson, New York.