Close your eyes and imagine all the romantic notions you have about sailing. Then take a big bucket of salt water and throw it in your face. Do that over and over again for about 6 hours. That was our passage from Chatham to Vineyard Haven. As any smart sailor does, we checked the tides in advance with the Eldridge guide and the wind on our SailFlow app. We knew we were in for a crappy ride, but we had a long leg planned for Monday (Vineyard Haven to Block Island) and that day the wind was going to be perfect. So we decided to go for it, figuring we…