@farmerman,
Sounds like an adventure to me. I used to live in New London while I was in the Navy. Going to Mystic was like coming home in a goofy new-agey way.
I finally took the CG Power Squadron wind courses when I got home to Ohio. But I never made it back to the East Coast, did my little bit of wind sailing on Lake Erie.
Party barging and fishing off an 8ft jon boat with 10hp is all I've done since.