sailing away on a paper boat

Check out Matto’s nice video (link below)about the Pathfinder raft up at Vinalhaven.  Well done, Matto, thanks for the effort!  A lot of great memories there. 

 https://youtu.be/LO_AHwxCWgs

a Welsford Pathfinder raft-up

Had the great joy of a Welsford Pathfinder raft-up yesterday at Perry Creek on Vinalhaven.   Spartina had the good company of Bobby’s Lagniappe and Matto’s Trim.  Just a wonderful time with good friends.   Credit to Matto for the nice photo of the line-up below.

 

change in plans

Arrived in Belfast this afternoon.   Will sta here two nights. Time for resupply, laundry, etc. Good trip with some good weather and interesting sailing   Also some storms and fog that have cost me some time.   Delayed enough that I can’t sail to Portland and explore the rivers on the way back.  Instead I will explore Penobscot Bay and Merchants Row.   That sounds pretty good to me.  I hear there are a couple other Pathfinders around, hope to cross paths with them   

 

fog, friends and waiting out the weather

 

In Stonington for an iced tea (and WiFi)    Wind filling in and heading west.

the first few days

Excellent sailing so far. Launched Monday evening (after finding a trailer tire flat at 4 am leaving a hotel outside of Boston) and spent the night at a mooring at the boatyard.  Sailed Mt. Desert Narrows the next day, then over to Swans Island.  A weather day there, wind rain and fog, in tiny Toothachers Cove.  Yesterday sailed to Southwest Harbor (tacking along the way at Sunken Money Ledge…the story of my life).   Having iced tea and a bagel this morning before heading to Frenchmen Bay.