Wake at 5:30 to the buzz of mosquitoes. Start up the little thermacell repeller sitting on top of the centerboard trunk and go back to sleep. Up at 6:00. A pretty morning, windless with a thin layer of fog. Sounds of birds and the diesel engines of lobster boats.
Sails up at 6:45 in a gentle wind. 0.7 kts on glassy water. 7:30 out of the entrance channel to the anchorage, fog horns and fog bells in the distance. 7:45 a lobster boat comes to work a line of pots nearby, I start the outboard to move clear and give them some room.
A lone harbor porpoise breaks the surface nearby as the ferry from Swan's Island to Bass Harbor passes by. A little wind filling in from the west, 1.7.
9:45 motorsailing with Bass Harbor to port. 10:00 crossing over the Bass Harbor Bar. Calm and can't feel any tide running.
10:10 across the bar, winding filling in on the stern, making 2.8. 10:50 turn north at Green "1" just past Long Ledge, Great Cranberry Island to starboard. Shifting winds and choppy water, can't make any headway. 11:10 turn back to the east, sailing south of Great Cranberry Island.
11:20 wind over the starboard quarter with Baker Island off the port bow. 11:00 can see Schoodic Peninsula in the distance. Making 2.3 to the northeast. 1:10 jibe past Baker Island. Find we are fighting the tide once around the corner of the island. Afternoon wind filling in, making 5.0 with wind on the port beam. Calm water and great sailing in the lee of Little Cranberry Island. Anchor down in a gravelly cove on the east side of Little Cranberry Island 2:25. Tired. Set up the boom tent to get out of the sun and take a nap.
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