Up at 5:45. Fresh clothes! Quiet on the creek, fog comes and goes over the trees on the north side. Hot chocolate with breakfast. 7:10 thicker fog and a hint of wind.
8:05 under power out of Ministers Creek. Follow the creek to Pulpit Harbor, then north out through the channel between the rocks. Sails up 8:25.
8:50 making 1.1 through the fog with a helping tide. 9:20 more wind and 2.9. 9:30 thicker fog, and I can see nothing but grey haze.
9:45 wind on beam, 4.1. Tiny and low-lying Mouse Island emerges from the fog, the first in a string of islands that leads to Islesboro.
Lime Island off port bow as fog begins to lift. Less wind and now on the stern, 1.8.
Islesboro off the starboard bow. 10:25 fog is gone. Approaching the islands, the channel between Job Island and Islesboro emerges dead ahead.
11:10 slip into the channel with Pendleton Point, the southern most point on Islesboro, to starboard. Cling to the right side of the channel to avoid the gravelly sandbar to port.
Follow the yellow markers past Minot Island and 700 Acre Island, Warren and Spruce Islands. Easy, relaxed sailing.
11:30 can see the ferry docks. 12:05 a seal pops up to port and with dark eyes watches us sail past Thrumcap, a rock too small to be called an island.
2.6 on a downwind sail. 12:20 jibe at the ferry docks and sail northwest towards the mainland just south of Spruce Head. Jibe again with perfect wind and head toward Marshall Point at the very north end of Islesboro. Making 3.4 on a single tack with the mainland to port and Islesboro to starboard.
2:40 round Marshall Point, low tide and keep my distance from the rocky point. Wind on the beam makes for a couple of excellent tacks across Turtle Head Cove. A woman sitting on the aft deck of a cruiser out of Belfast waves and says "Beautiful!" Anchor down 3:05.
18.09 NM
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