Seal Bay - North Haven - Belfast
13 August 2018
Seal Bay – North Haven – Belfast
We left Seal Bay on Friday, August 10th, and made a stop in North Haven for a night, anchoring just east of the mooring field. The last time we were here, 2 years ago, we enjoyed a lobster rolls at a great restaurant (stand) and we were really looking forward to more of the same. Unfortunately it had closed down, bummer!) We did walk around the street, looked at some local art and had some pizza. On our walk, Bob had a brilliant idea to buy some fresh lobsters and make them on Chanticleer. After all it had been several days since we had lobster and we were starting to suffer from withdrawal.. We bought the lobster from J.O. Brown’s, a big old hardware store/boatyard/lobster pound, originally founded in 1899 and is still being run by the Brown family. We steamed them on board and they were delicious – about the best lobsters we’ve had so far this year. The next day, Saturday, August 11th, we motored from North Haven to Belfast, one of our favorite towns on Penobscot Bay. We took a mooring from the Town Harbormaster and started several days enjoying the bookstores (there are 4 of them in this town), the ice cream and the restaurants – especially the lobster rolls from Young’s Lobster Pound. We also spent an enjoyable evening with Irv Halper and Marcia Fox, from s/v Hideout, who we met through our good friends Bob and Julie Norman. Irv and Marcia keep their boat here year-round, but winter in Boynton Beach, Florida. Keeping Chanticleer here over the winter may be a plan we’d consider at some point in the future as the trip up and back from the Chesapeake is a real slog. It wasn’t all play here, however, as we did spend time provisioning, re-filliing fuel and water tanks, doing laundry and repairing the forward head (always a fun job).