We’re not much for crowds, so when we approached Boothbay Harbor, we did it from a slight distance. Leaving Ebencook Harbor, we used the Townsend Gut to avoid going out[…]
Read moreMonth: July 2015
Making our way
Wow. We really have not had internet in the “wilds” of the Down East. We’d known that T-Mobile wasn’t great, but…wow. So we’re behind on posting, but rest assured that[…]
Read moreNot a Great Sailing Day
This is one reason not to bring a schedule on a sailboat. We’re relaxing, reading mostly, for the second day in a row. I’m happy for another rest day after[…]
Read moreSearching for Ohana
After our calamitous approach to Portland Harbor and subsequent safe anchorage, we decided to dedicate the following day to finding Ohana, the boat that gave us 5 gallons of diesel[…]
Read moreIn a Fog
Currents run about an hour and a half behind tides in the Piscataqua River and its side creeks and channels. In order to leave before the current turned against us,[…]
Read moreTime Warp
In the last post, we ended in peaceful distress. The next morning, we met Roger, neighbor to Tom, owner of a Bob Perry designed Passport, who offered us his mooring.[…]
Read moreGloucester to Kittery
I (Dena) weighed anchor at 0830, grateful for a sandy bottom that left our anchor and rode cleaner than it went in. Nothing like James’ mucky mess from Boston Hah-buh.[…]
Read moreBoston to Gloucester
The two days we spent in East Boston, working on a 50′ 1974 Grand Banks – a wooden pleasure-trawler, not a sailboat, not even close – were a great investment.[…]
Read moreAnd then we went sailing
Wessagussett is a lovely place, barring the wake created when hundreds of plastic destroyers caroom from the Fore and Town Rivers. Fourth of July weekend was topsy-turvy on the good[…]
Read more