Torrential rains overnight, seemed to go on for a couple of hours. No wind, no lightning, just rain falling straight down.
Sail off the mooring 7:20, low overcast, southwest breeze and a helping ebb tide. An eagle flies along the treetops as we drift out of Deep Hole. Making 2.1 with the tide doing most of the work, sails giving some help with direction. 7:40 a little blue sky shows the the low, dark clouds.
8:05 making 3.0, dark clouds lifting. 8:20 off Oceanville, feeling a bit more wind. And then less wind. 8:55 doing 2.0. 9:15 navigating rocks and shallows at Stinson Neck, 3.4 winding our way past the ledges. 10:30 trying to cut through the rocks at Black Point. Wind fails, turn back to open water.
11:10 approaching Eggemoggin Reach and can see Babson Island across the way. 11:20 slip past Conoray Island, making 3.5 across the Reach. 11:35 Little Babson Island to starboard, Torrey Islands to port. 11:00 tacking north past Northwest Harbor, a school of porpoise by the rocks. A couple more tacks and sail into Center Harbor.
The harbor is like a boat museum, classic wooden boats all around. I tack back and forth, enjoying the boats. I hear a voice say "That's a pretty boat." I turn around to admire the gentleman's boat yawl, a classic Herreshoff. It is only later that I realize it is Maynard Bray, the well-known writer, photographer and technical editor for Wooden Boat Magazine. That is a compliment I will remember.
Coming into the dock I see Harold coming down to help me tie up. Adam, from Brooklin Boat Yard is there to help me too. Once tied up, I help Harold and Anna step the mast and launch BELLA. I get an invite from Harold and Anna for a lobster dinner at their campsite, and Adam offers me a mooring for the night. Life is good.
I head out for another short sail in the harbor, then tie up to the mooring.
Anna, who loves to row, picks me up in the dinghy. Once they have BELLA fully rigged and tied to their mooring, we head to the campground, picking up lobsters along the way.
We steam the lobsters, crack the shells and put them on a grill over the campfire.
Just a great day and a great evening. Harold and Anna set me up with my own tent, we have a great dinner and relax around the campfire. The cruise is coming to an end, and there is no better way to end it than with a lobster dinner and good friends.
14.88 NM
1 comment:
WOW! What a cool day!
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