I wake to a thunderstorm in the night. Heavy rain, thunder and lightning. Wake at 4:00. The storm is gone, fog moving in.
Windless overcast morning. Under power at 6:30 to Castine. Tied up at the town dock at 7:00.
The Harbormaster lets me put a couple of power packs in his office to charge.
And breakfast at a restaurant for the second day in a row, I must be living right. I take a walk through the little town, pick up a couple of bottled drinks at the little grocery store/gas station. Back at SPARTINA a dockhand tells me there is a bed and breakfast up the way where I could get a shower for $10.
Cast off 10:10, sails up just off the dock with a good north wind. Feels like it might rain so put on the drysuit. Even with good wind we make just 1.7 against a strong flood tide. Then more wind and we do a little better.
11:05 out on East Penobscot Bay, 4.3 and raining. Holbrook Island to port. 11:30 2.8 with wind and swells on the starboard quarter. 12:00 3.0 sailing south in a light, steady rain. 12:25 jibe at Head of the Cape. 12:45 the rain finally stops.
I had chosen Pickering Island for an anchorage. I get there and drop the anchor in a little cove at the east end of the island. There is a little islet to the south and shallows between that and the main island, I thought they would give me enough protection. With a northwest wind they do not, I can feel the swells rolling into the cove.
Raise anchor and sail northeast past rocks and ledges towards Carney Island. Looking at the chart and feeling the wind I decide I don't want to anchor there either.
Turn to the southwest towards Eagle Island. There seems to be a little cove that might work well. Motorsailing in light winds, there is a strong starboard to port current running. Exchange greetings with the windjammer HERITAGE.
Better wind and sailing, come into the little unnamed cove with two small islands to port. A nice gravelly beach and calm water. Anchor down 4:15.
20.07 NM
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