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Anne’s starboard bow, at Oriental’s Town Dock.

While there though, Geoff Jones kept tabs on the clock and the 48 hour free stay at the Hodges Street dock. When it was suggested to him that he might be able to stay for a third night, given there didn’t seem to be any waiting boats in the harbor, Jones said he couldn’t do that. He said he’d heard the same line in the fall. Back then, the words were spoken by a boater who was overstaying at a slip at the Town Dock, while Jones was in fact waiting at the Marina for a space to open up.

Geoff Jones on board his 131 year old boat, Anne, at Oriental’s Town Dock.

So despite the seemingly empty harbor and no demand for his slip, he wouldn’t stay a third night at the free dock. “I just don’t want,” he says, “to be that guy.”

His third night in Oriental, he paid for a slip at the Oriental Marina. The next day, boat and crew pointed north on their ramble. He figured there would be a dozen days of travel, though most likely not straight through. At the end of the trek, once back in Mystic, Geoffrey Jones says, Anne would go back in to literally being a work boat— as Jones does maintenance work on moorings his family owns in the waters off Mystic.

He says he’d like to take Anne on another ICW trip some other winter.

Shells in the wheelhouse.

Anne, in an earlier depiction.

Windlass at Anne’s bow, worthy of a working boat.

Geoff Jones in Anne’s cabin with Reef in the upper left opening to the wheelhouse. On the table (which covers the diesel engine) is a copy of ‘Working Thin Waters’ about Anne’s previous owner. It was written by Stephen Jones, Geoff’s father with whom he worked to restore Anne.

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Posted Wednesday April 8, 2015 by Melinda Penkava

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