Wake in the company of schooners, including LAZY JACK, just after 6:00. Tuck away the sleeping gear and strike the boom tent. I walk up to one cafe to find a line already formed, waiting much too long as each customer seemed to have very specific instructions for frothed this, whipped that, not too much cinnamon but certainly more nutmeg and much sure you steam the milk just right for a nice layer of microfoam.
I surrender and walk down the street to the deli where I get a blueberry muffin and iced tea. Then I grab a second iced tea to go. No rush to leave this morning, I'm an not going far.
Sitting on the waterfront enjoying my iced tea, I hear a woman's voice saying "you won't remember me but......" I look up, smile and stand up to give her a hug. It is Sarah, the artist who made a wonderful painting of SPARTINA in Oriental, NC during the Spring sail in North Carolina. It is a small world. She lives in Maine and was visiting Camden with her family when she recognized my with my long-billed hat. It is a treat to see her.
I walk to the harbor master's office and pay $58 for my night at the dock, then walk back to the deli to get a sandwich to go. Cast off 10:15 with a wave from Ruby on the SWIFT.
We wend our way out of the inner harbor and then through the mooring fields on the outer harbor. Light overcast and no wind on West Penobscot Bay, I motor at idle speed.
Wind ruffles the water now and then, not enough to make it work raising sailing. The deli roast beef sandwich makes for a nice lunch.
12:10 approaching the ferry dock on Isleboro, I can see the ferry across the water leaving Lincolnville. Round the north end of Warren Island, motor past the $25 per night Warren Island State Park mooring buoys and drop anchor in about eight feet of water at 12:20. This should be a good place to wait out the weather.
7.91 NM
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