Aug 16, 2009

Tenant's Harbor to Boothbay (again!)




Sunday morning dawned a glorious sunrise. We were up at 6AM, Pretzel took care of business on deck (it's called a poop deck for a reason!), so we had breakfast and readied the boat for departure.
BUT.......
before dropping the mooring we had to go ashore.
The REAL reason we stayed in Tenant's Harbor an extra day......
After eating at Cod End on Friday we started back on the dingy amid a swarm of mosquitoes. Peter took his hat off to swat a few and his very EXPENSIVE sunglasses went for a swim!!! Devastated, he arranged for a diver to search after his lobster run on Sat. Turns out that he came Sunday morning at 7:30. After apx 15-20 min in the water he found Peter's glasses, which made his day!!!! You are only hearing about this because it had a happy ending. He loves his sunglasses...and these were the favored golf set.
We dropped the mooring by 8AM and left under perfect conditions, except for wind. So we motor sailed with our main and jib giving us a little boost up to 5.8K over ground. Once again we saw lots of seals and porpoises along the way.
Arrived back in Boothbay at the Tugboat Inn at 1PM, did laundry, fueled for the remainder of our trip back, and relaxed for the afternoon while Peter watched a golf tournament. Ahhhh...civilization again! We are sitting under a cell tower!
Boating...make new friends but keep the old!

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