We stayed in Seal Bay for a couple of days. We spent some time with the other two boats that were also anchored there. They were both long time veterans of sailing in Maine and gave us lots of ideas on where to go. We also took our dinghy for a long ride. That ride taught me that you can’t just rely on the depth sounder to tell you when you are getting into shallow water. There are huge rocks that can pop up in the middle of what looks like safe water!

Last night we had a thunderstorm and rain is forecast for the next few days. We left the anchorage this morning and went in search of some place that had better Internet access. It was just really overcast when we left but we had some periods of low fog. You can see the fog line in the picture above. We headed to an anchorage on the other side of North Haven and dropped our anchor. Bill checked the charts and saw we were much too close to some rocks on the shore. Up came the anchor and we moved to another spot further away. Then he checked the Internet and it was not very good, that is when he decided we would move closer to the town. Up came the anchor and we started to move again, but this time the wind started howling and clearly a storm was coming. We dropped the anchor again! Thank goodness we have an electric windlass that allows us to just stand and push a button with our foot to raise and lower the fifty five pound anchor and all the chain we drop it on! A little while later we pulled the anchor up again and this time we made it to the town. Of course we had a discussion on what side of the Coast Guard boat I should drive on until we realized they were in the process of installing the navigation mark that we clearly had to leave to our right!

There are a lot of moorings that are close to the town but also an anchorage a bit further away. We opted for the anchorage and are now anchored within sight of the town. North Haven looks a lot like we expect a town in Maine to look.. at least from a distance. We may get a chance to go ashore when the weather clears a bit. Right now it is damp and dreary and it’s cold!. The irony is that the Internet is not really any better over here. There is a movie under a sleeping bag in our future tonight!