Rockland
04 July 2015
Cathy
We headed out of Boothbay on Thursday morning. We were not sure how far we would go today, based on the wave height and winds out in the bay. Well we should have turned around and gone back to Boothbay and waited until Friday to leave, but foolishly kept on going all the way to Tenants Harbor. We hit 4 to 5 foot seas and a zillion lobster trap buoys. George was exhausted when we turned into Tenants Harbor around noon. We had called a few places along the way to duck into, but found no open transient moorings available. Even Troy could not sleep on this trip and spent time on my lap and on the dashboard. It was the roughest leg of the trip so far.
Tenants Harbors is mostly filled with lobster boats, and was very quite and serine. The Tenants Harbor Boat Yard, where we picked up a mooring, was established back in 1605, now that is old. We walked around the small town checking out the beautiful homes, including the East Wind Inn and decided that would be a great place to go for breakfast in the morning (they have lobster benedict). When we returned to Wildflower, we started to have some issues with our dinghy motor, where it eventually would not start at all. George worked on it for a while, but gave up and went to bed early. The next morning it still would not start, so we could not go in for breakfast. We decided that we would have someone look at it in Rockland.
When we headed out of Tenants on Friday morning we found the seas to be more favorable. It was a pleasant and short ride to Rockland Harbor. We went outside of Muscle Ridge, which looked like it could be a bit dangerous to maneuver through on the map, even though it would have been a shorter route. Troy not only slept the whole way on this trip, but also stayed under his beach towel for an extra few hours. We had to wake him to come down from the fly bridge into the cabin so we could go over on the launch to have dinner with Jack and Denise on Seaquill. They came in from Pulpit Harbor this afternoon.
After going through a trouble shooting exercise with Jack, George did get the dinghy fixed the next morning. He changed the spark plug and got new gas and it is running fine now.
We had five large schooners docked not to far from our boat. We watched them all come in Friday afternoon, and go back out early Saturday morning. Last night you could hear them having a great time on those beautiful boats. When they were all heading out this morning, they passed by the stern of Wildflower and Troy was perched on the back getting comments from the passengers. I guess you could call Troy our deck fluff.
Jack and Denise came over and we headed into town for lunch and a long walk. Tomorrow we will hop in the truck and head to the party at Silver Lake. When we return, we will stay in Rockland until Tuesday, and then head to Camden.