Maine 05 part 3
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Maine 05 part 3
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Frenchboro on Long Island to Southwest Harbor Friday September 2. After the morning hike around a corner of Frenchboro Island our group will split up and head separate ways. Tom and Kate in Sea Smoke have to be back earlier than the rest of us so they will start heading back. She will head North then West to Buckle harbor and then to Center harbor. We may catch up with them again at Center harbor. The 4 Montgomery boats will head North to Southwest Harbor and stay at a Marina for showers and groceries. This will be our first night at a marina, assuming we find a vacancy
The afternoon sea breeze started to come up for the afternoon, was rather weak and eventually settled in at 5 - 8 kts for most of the trip.
Picture by Tod Mills Sea Smoke clearing the Harbor for the trip through the Casco Passage to Buckle Island at the Northwest Corner of Swans Island.
Picture by Tod Mills Abbey Gura cruising along in light winds. A relaxing day on the water.
Picture by Tod Mills Bluebird on her way as well. That blue hull almost gets lost in the blue water and blue sky.
Picture by Kate Dinneer Tod sailed off of the mooring and will not use his motor all day. I have yet to slow him down by getting him to tow my Dory. He loves to range back and forth behind the fleet and then glide by as he takes some good pictures.
Picture by Tod Mills This is "Seas the Day" running wing on wing with Doug using his remote steering again. It sure makes cruising enjoyable.
Picture by Tod Mills As we enter Southwest Harbor around 6:30 pm start to see numerous Hinckley yachts. We put out an open hail for any marina on channel 9 and 16 with no response. After the third try the Hinckley yard answers and tells us how to identify one of their mooring to use and we can pay in the morning. We search through the mooring field and find two reasonably close to shore. They will only allow two boats on a mooring. So we split up in pairs and basked in the luxury of a Hinckley mooring. I am sure it was far superior to any other mooring at South West Harbor and was only $35 a night.
Picture by Tod Mills Rick Langer rows over to visit Tod and Doug on the other mooring. We are all tired and hungry so no late parties tonite.
Picture by Doug Kelch It must be 5 AM on Saturday and the morning sun is just starting to shed some light.
Picture by Doug Kelch We were all up early so we all took pictures of this perfect sunrise.
Picture by Rick Langer
Picture by Tod Mills The sun certainly pops up quickly.
Picture by Abbey Gura As soon as the breakfast dishes are cleared we headed off to the Hinckley yard for a hot shower.
Picture by Abbey Gura This must be the Hinckley one design fleet on standby for the weekend races. You can choose the one you want for immediate delivery. They will give top $ for a Montgomery on a trade in :-)
Picture by Abbey Gura The view from the entrance to the Hinckley Bath house.
Picture by Tod Mills Rick , Abbey and I went to town for groceries and lunch while Tod and a trailer sailor friend from the Internet went for a sail. This was one of the typical sailboats our for a Saturday morning romp. The winds came up quite nice for the day and in fact were quite gusty.
Leaving South West Harbor on the afternoon of Saturday September 3.
Buckle Harbor - the extra hook in the route was an exploratory path we tried to an anchorage not listed in the guides but it got too dark to risk the strange non-buoyed channel so we went back to Buckle Harbor for the night.
Picture by Tod Mills This is the light house at Bass Harbor Head. We left Southwest Harbor about 3 pm and headed for Buckle Island for the night. The wind had already started to tail off for the day.
Picture by Tod Mills Bluebird motoring in to Buckle Harbor. We had to motor most of the way due to the lack of wind. This was only the second day that we could not sail and that was primarily due to the late departure.
Picture by Abbey Gura A sunset view while we were still motoring along. We did not actually anchor until it was almost dark. We did eat in the dark with help of Abbey's pressurized lantern.
Picture by Tod Mills A nice calm morning at Buckle Harbor.
This is the section from Buckle Harbor to the Wooden Boat School on Eggemoggin Reach. We Left Buckle Harbor around 9 AM on Sunday September 4th. We planned some time to wander around the school grounds before anchoring for the night.
Picture by Rick Langer Some of the scenery along Eggemoggin Reach. This was taken in the morning while winds were still light. The winds continued to increase and level out at a near perfect 8 - 10 kts.
Picture by Tod Mills Here we are rafted up for lunch on one of Wooden Boat Magazines guest moorings. It was a quite Sunday afternoon. Another beautiful day in Maine.
Picture by Tod Mills The Wooden Boat Magazine office building.
Picture by Abbey Gura Tod Mills in front of the Wooden Boat School.
Picture by Tod Mills Some examples of failures at the school. Not everything goes perfectly in spite of the appearance of perfect end results. You have to be willing to discard the defects.
Picture by Abbey Gura Tod, Rick and Doug taking a tour break at a Gazebo on the Wooden Boat grounds.
Picture by Tod Mills The view from the lawn along the shore.
Picture by Tod Mills Eye candy.
Picture by Tod Mills
Picture by Tod Mills
This is the section from the Wooden Boat School, though a narrow rocky cut, a peek into Center Harbor and the final stop for the night at Benjamin River.
Picture by Tod Mills A campsite along the shore as we leave the Wooden Boat area. There was a lot of short tacking going on trying to squeeze between the rocks on an outgoing tide. We are on the way to Center Harbor for the night which is only a couple of miles further north.
Picture by Kate Dinneen Sea Smoke anchored at Center Harbor I think. We did not stay at Center harbor because the wind was pushing waves through the harbor and we wanted a quieter spot. Too bad because Center Harbor has one of the best reputations for a quality stop along the coast.
Picture by Kate Dinneen I am not sure where this is either but I loved the picture. We continued on to Benjamin river for the night and the next section will cover that portion of the trip.
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