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July 19 – 22: Tenants Harbor, Harbor Island, Potts Harbor and Home
The 19th looked none-too-promising, and I put on a warm sweater and foul weather gear as we left Seal Bay. We were sad not to see it on a sunny day, as there is so much there to explore, but there’s always next year! We made our way through Fox Islands Thoroughfare and out to…
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July 17 – 19: Frenchboro, Swans Island and Seal Bay
After the cruise broke up, we had hoped to continue east with a goal of reaching lovely remote Roque Island. We were there two years ago and swore not to go back unless there was going to be good weather! However, with fog and strong Southwesterly winds in the forecast, we decided to start working…
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July 14 – 17: Hell’s Half Acre and Mt Desert Island
We moved on to Hell’s Half Acre, which is one of our favorite anchorages, in a little slot between two tiny islands. It looks quite exposed at high tide, but at low tide you feel quite protected. After the fleet had cocktails on the beach, most people went back to their boats, but we stayed…
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Resourceful sailors #1
Last year, we got some scratches in the side of our boat, which the boatyard never got around to painting this spring. No problem – a little bit of nail polish in a similar color, and you can’t tell the difference from more than 2 feet away!
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July 11 – 13: North Haven, Vinalhaven and Brooklin
With strong winds forecast for the first two days of the cruise, our original itinerary was abandoned and boats dispersed. We picked up a mooring in North Haven, which is a small island community with a couple of gift stores and art galleries, a brew pub which was unfortunately closed the day we were there,…
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July 8-10: Passage from Marblehead to Maine
We left Marblehead soon after 5am on Friday July 8 on our way to Maine. The weather was clear with a good following wind – we have no idea how much wind there was since our wind instruments are currently not working! As we also needed to adjust the battens in our mainsail, we motor…
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Ready to go
Finally – the sails are on, gear and provisions are loaded, and we are ready to leave for Maine tomorrow. Thank you Hill Danforth for the photo!
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Where’s Persephone?
Unfortunately we are still in the boatyard. We are not going to be able to get the sides repainted this summer, so at this point we are just waiting for the bottom to be painted and a bob-stay added. Very much hoping to be in within about a week as there is a lot to…
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When is the boat going in?
Good question! We are still waiting to have the starboard side awl-gripped to repair damage done in a hit-and-run last summer. Before that, we need to install some equipment that had to be delivered from New Zealand. Unfortunately the factory that produces it burned down at the end of last year. We think we will…
SAILING YACHT PERSEPHONE 