Crossing the Gulf of Maine — 2003-08-18 12:05
Henry and I got up around 08:00 this morning. We cast off from our anchorage, and began the journey to Rockland. In the interest of speed, we motored the whole way — Pop wanted time, after our arrival in Rockland, to replace the anchor pin which fell overboard as we set the anchor yesterday) and the carrying lines on Rubber Ducky’s sides (one of which snapped as we were un-beaching her from Birch Island) before Mom & Lee arrived to pick up Henry and me.
Breakfast — eaten during the motoring to Rockland — was peaches that had been cut up for us by Pop. H also had yogurt and some coffee cake. We washed up our dishes, and started packing and prepping for out arrival in Rockland — and departure from Pamina. Our conversation, meanwhile, was about Dwarven Artisan-Engineers and Orcish breeding programs. Fascinating stuff for use in the epic fantasy stories that we tell, and thus not yet for public consumption.
We arrived in Rockland around 10:00 and went about readying Pamina for a two-week cruise, and the two of us for departure to Burlington. Pop, Henry, and I went to Rockland Boat, a chandlery that lies about a five to ten minute walk from Knight Marine boatyard, where we were docked. After getting our supplies, we returned to Pamina and our waiting tasks — Pop to set the jury-rigged anchor pin, I to replace the lines on Rubber Ducky’s sides, and H to unload our gear and pack it into our mother’s car.
So now we’re driving south-west to York, Maine, to spend the night with David & Susan, my mother’s uncle and aunt.
The trip went well, a success by all measures, and my father’s fastest crossing of the Gulf (25 hours from West Falmouth to Tenant’s Harbor). The only problem was that it wasn’t long enough, and that, perhaps, is the best kind of problem to have. Now we’ll rinse the salt from our hair, off our bodies, and out of our clothes, and turn our eyes and minds to the year ahead. I have already begun to consider next summer, and how I might make time at the end of August for another cruise across the Gulf of Maine.
This log was closed on Monday, 18 August 2003, at 12:40, by Gavin Weld White.