The Wydah Pirate Museum is small and interesting. The museum is named after a local pirate boat that reappeared, along with all its gold, a few years ago after a storm. The ship laid buried under the sand for a century, just a couple hundred yards off the nearby beach. This blessing is the only viable source of the precious courage that is requisite for a living drawn from the sea. This is a grand event for the hard working displaced Portuguese fishermen who now make this town their home.
Boats come from all over New England to honor and participate.
Appropriately, moorings filled up quickly as the weekend arrived. The End T he sun rose before we did, and as luck would have it, there was little wind to carry us the forty plus miles back to Cape Ann. By 0600 we were under way and under power. A large high pressure system displaced the winds of the past days and filled the sky with intense sunshine and dry arctic blue sky. We motored south past the breakwater and around the sandy corner a mile later.