Saturday, August 30, 2008

Nice cruise, now back to finishing the boat

We had a nice cruise with a night in Pulpit Harbor, then two nights in
Cabot's Cove while a small front moved through. We spent the time
unpacking boxes and trying to get settled on the boat. Fay took
charge of the dinghy with her own 2hp engine, total independence! She
went ashore on North Haven, picked wild berries and then walked to the
market to buy fresh crab. Then I was treated to a great dinner of
fresh crab cakes and wild berries. This is the cruising life!

Now we're back in Thomaston for another week of work on the boat.
Miscellaneous carpentry tasks need to be finished, a few rigging items
and some electronics to be sorted out. We'll spend Tuesday and
Wednesday in Camden while they work on the boat, then come back on
Thursday to see how everything is progressing. If all goes well we'll
leave on Friday for another 10 days of shake out cruise.

We just got a CD from Billy Black with some stunning pictures of the
boat. Now that we have some bandwidth I'll try to post some of those
in the next few days.