Laboriously moving through the harbor, the m/v John H ceased motion
, opening its forward, mouth-like boarding ramp and reappendaging itself to land after a 16.5-mile Long Island Sound crossing by means of its multiple lighthouses, and disgorged the parade of vehicles from its cavernous hold on to Orient Point, the easternmost hamlet in the town of Southold and gateway to the North Fork's vineyards, farms, and the nautical village of Greenport.