Getting ready in fits and starts
27 lipca 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 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 Czytaj więcej
Getting ready
29 lipca 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 81 °F
Modern hardtack. (With brown sugar, almonds, and ginger added)
If not one thing, its another...
31 lipca 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ 🌙 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.
2 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ☀️ 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, Czytaj więcej
Set sail
3 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 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. Czytaj więcej
Under sail
3 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 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
3 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
Missed the storm!!
3 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F
The thunderstorms are now behind us. That’s Boston under the rain clouds!
Safe in Marblehead Harbor
3 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 86 °F
Made landfall ahead of the 2nd storm coming our way😊
Marblehead
3 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 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
4 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ☁️ 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
4 sierpnia 2018, North Atlantic Ocean ⋅ 🌧 81 °F
Starting to rain!! Good thing we left the bimini up!! Still warm though.
Rockport MA
4 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 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 Czytaj więcej
Destination: Rockport
4 sierpnia 2018, 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
4 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ 🌧 73 °F
Portsmouth
5 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
Arrived at Little Harbor, Wentworth Marina, just S of Portsmouth Harbor.
Wentworth By the Sea
5 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ 🌙 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 Czytaj więcej
No, we are not making several round trip
6 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ☀️ 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 Czytaj więcej
USS Albacore
6 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ☀️ 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 Czytaj więcej
Leaving Wentworth/Portsmouth
7 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ☀️ 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
7 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 84 °F
The Day's Happenings
8 sierpnia 2018, 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) Czytaj więcej
Tomorrow: Portland, ME
7 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 77 °F
Leaving Biddeford, to Portland
8 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 77 °F
Like a Starbuck's on every corner ...
8 sierpnia 2018, Stany Zjednoczone ⋅ ⛅ 77 °F
. . . there‘s a lobster pot every 3 feet.











































