SAILING YACHT PERSEPHONE

We were finally ready to go cruising! Every year we say we are just going to go wherever the wind takes us, but it never seems to end up that way as we plan to meet up with family and friends. We tried to be prepared in plenty of time but ended up just throwing

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Testing…. testing…. check check check….. It’s been a while since I last posted on this blog but I’m hoping to use it again as we set off on new adventures. It feels a bit rusty! Also I feel rather self-conscious as I realize that people actually are reading it! So, please let me know what

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Time to go home. We headed west and broke the trip into 3 days. Our strategy for cruising Maine is to get East as quickly as possible and then visit some of the places we by-passed on the way home. This gets us further west and gives us a better angle on the prevailing southwest

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We motored up towards Castine in a near gale, with southerly winds gusting up into the low thirties. Leaving Islesboro to starboard, we were in relatively flat seas, and our brave little dinghy suffered no harm. Nevertheless, the only other boats we saw on the move were windjammers and an Outward Bound boat full of

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We woke to a beautiful sunny morning in Pulpit Harbor. After a quick provisioning trip ashore, we left for Merchant Row. For once, conditions were perfect for sailing, so long as we weren’t in a hurry! We had a pleasant trip over and anchored at Hell’s Half Acre. In the morning the tide was low

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Friends Sue and Denny, who we met on the Salty Dawg Rally, joined us in Camden. We headed over to Seal Bay to ride out a stormy night. Next morning was still rainy and we didn’t go far: we stopped in Perry Creek initially as a lunch stop, then decided to stay the night. The

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