Getting ready in fits and starts
2018年7月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 75 °F
So much left to do. Right now I’m concentrating on putting the ditch bag together. Tomorrow I need to hunt down a solar phone charger and supplies to make a water still (to distill seawater intoもっと詳しく
Getting ready
2018年7月29日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
Modern hardtack. (With brown sugar, almonds, and ginger added)
If not one thing, its another...
2018年7月31日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 75 °F
Does this look like a boat ready to launch? We are waiting for the solar panels and new multifunction display (MFD)(like GPS) to be installed. It was supposed to be done by last Saturday!!!!
Have patience.
2018年8月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 90 °F
The solar panels are installed, and the new MFD is installed. We started loading to boat tonight but I can’t put anything away because it’s all still a mess! We will clean it up in the morning,もっと詳しく
Set sail
2018年8月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
We set sail this morning. It’s hot, with little breeze, so only motoring now. We decided to leave today because the thunderstorm threat for today was revised, and are supposed to be only tomorrow.もっと詳しく
Under sail
2018年8月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F
Put the sails up; 9 knots, making 3.5 knots. We are towing the dinghy, so that slows us down a little.
Going 5.2 knots
2018年8月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
Missed the storm!!
2018年8月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F
The thunderstorms are now behind us. That’s Boston under the rain clouds!
Safe in Marblehead Harbor
2018年8月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F
Made landfall ahead of the 2nd storm coming our way😊
Marblehead
2018年8月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 79 °F
David and I had dinner with David’s former colleague, Don, and his wife Noelle. They gave us the rundown on all the good spots to stop in on the Maine coast!!
Leaving Marblehead
2018年8月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
These are pictures that Noell Henrich took of us as we were leaving Marblehead. She and Don gave us some vital trip information as well as a stash of terrific coffee!!!
Sprinkling
2018年8月4日, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ 🌧 81 °F
Starting to rain!! Good thing we left the bimini up!! Still warm though.
Rockport MA
2018年8月4日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 73 °F
Made it to Rockport. We were able to sail for an hour or so this morning in 10-13kn winds, before the wind died to nothing and we moored instead. The rain started, and gradually became more windy, upもっと詳しく
Destination: Rockport
2018年8月4日, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ 🌧 73 °F
Heading to Rockport,MA today. We left Marblehead around 10 am but it’s not tracking us for some reason.
Signs from Rockport
2018年8月4日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌧 73 °F
Portsmouth
2018年8月5日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
Arrived at Little Harbor, Wentworth Marina, just S of Portsmouth Harbor.
Wentworth By the Sea
2018年8月5日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 72 °F
No wind today, so we had to motor all the way up from Rockport. Leaving that “dock” (more like a pier) was almost as harrowing as it was coming in, but we did it with no mishaps.
We made it inもっと詳しく
No, we are not making several round trip
2018年8月6日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F
Apparently when I was trying to add pictures for earlier dates it counts it as a trip back to that location. I turned off that feature, so now when I post pictures from a place after we had left, itもっと詳しく
USS Albacore
2018年8月6日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F
Since we stayed an extra day in Portsmouth, David and I went to (West Marine for an unfruitful trip 😤 and happened upon) the USS Albacore, one of the first experimental torpedo shapes of USもっと詳しく
Leaving Wentworth/Portsmouth
2018年8月7日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Let’s hope it is cooler on the water. It was in the 90s here, very humid. Happy birthday, Brian! And happy birthday, Amber!!
Arrived Wood Isl. Harbor, Biddeford, ME
2018年8月7日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
The Day's Happenings
2018年8月8日, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ 🌧 77 °F
We had a great sail today. We set off around 10, on the motor, but around noon the wind came up (eventually to 13-14kn) We sailed along with the motor for a while (we can keep up our speed (6kn)もっと詳しく
Tomorrow: Portland, ME
2018年8月7日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 77 °F
Leaving Biddeford, to Portland
2018年8月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 77 °F
Like a Starbuck's on every corner ...
2018年8月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 77 °F
. . . there‘s a lobster pot every 3 feet.











































