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Hey, bigbog..are you bigspencer over on npmb?..."just my $.02" ;-) I'm mattm, the guy with the orange helmet poling on top of the screen.
I'm sure you're aware to stay over on the Old Lyme side if heading out into the sound. I kept my sailboat in North cove about 10 years before getting silted out and heading for New Londons deeper waters; then selling BlueMoon as after 40 years, the jellyfish and crowded anchorages started ticking me off. That channel is horrendous with powerboat traffic at times.
Other great spots though are kayaking Selden Creek area just up from Essex, Essex is cool too. Bluff point is a fairly sheltered area, and draws paddlers in. I used to bring a canoe down to New London to have with Blue Moon, and used to love paddling the West side of the Thames in the dark, feeling that ground swell from the Race, and being in the dark, watching the traffic in the channel, and lit buoys and lighthouses. Pretty sure I'll get another sailboat in about 10 years or so, and have a deck big enough for a canoe. We paddled around Block Island, over at Watch Hill, and in the Harbors around Shelter Island and Montauk. Nice change from the whitewater I generally am on.