Sailing the Good Life
Summer of 2014-2015
| Vessel Name: | Meow |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Leopard 44 |
| Hailing Port: | Nantucket |
| Crew: | Varies |
12 August 2015 | Nantucket Harbor
11 August 2015 | Gulf of Maine
10 August 2015 | Out in the Gulf of Maine
09 August 2015 | Pulpit Harbor
08 August 2015 | Castine Harbor
07 August 2015 | Center Harbor
06 August 2015 | Sommesville
05 August 2015 | Northeast Harbor, Me
04 August 2015 | Moose Island, Me.
03 August 2015
03 August 2015 | Northhaven, Me.
02 August 2015 | Port Clyde, Me.
01 August 2015 | Marblehead, Ma.
30 July 2015 | Ptown
29 July 2015 | Nantucket Harbor
27 July 2015 | Nantucket Harbor
27 July 2015 | Nantucket Harbor
01 July 2015 | Back at the mooring
30 June 2015
29 June 2015
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Sommes to Center Harbor
07 August 2015 | Center Harbor
August 7
Left Sommes around 9:30 down river to SW Harbor arount the end of Mt Desert Island then thru Blue Hills Band. Continued thru Casco Passage and truning right up Eggemogin Reach the wind built to 12-14 and we were on the famous Reach.
We reached Center Harbor around 1pm. Where we decided to post up for the night. This is the home of Brooklyn Boat Yard and just down the island from this is Wooden boat school that we wanted to explore.
BBY builds wooden boats. One of the most famous boats that they build is the W Class. They built the W-Boat that caught fire last year off of Cuttyhunk that Wendy Schmidt owned and Tom Pochman’s son was captaining.
This anchorage is abundant with a variety of small wooden classic sailboats from Friendship Sloops to Herreschoff 12.5’s There are also a few beautiful large fiberglass hulls in there.
The Yacht Club is very cool. It only has a single room, classic New England building that appears to function mainly as a summer camp for young kids living on the island and the main place in this harbor for them to have summer fun and learn to sail these classic boats.
The houses surrounding the coast are clearly generations of wealth. Got talking with a man whos sister lives in Oregon and the look forward every summer to their annual trip to the remote family compound on the coast of Maine. It is probably the same scene as the families on Tuckernuck.
One thing about the people in Maine is that they are overly friendly and can’t help you enough. We took up a mooring at the BBY and the CFO offered to give us a ride down to the Wooden Boat School. It was about 5 miles. He also owned the general store. The school is only open from June-September but the principal business for them is the publication of Wooden Boat Magazine. Up on a hill overlook the anchorage is a beautiful classic main house where the magazine is published. Along with it are multiple other boat building magazines specific to different building techniques. These two businesses support most of the year rounders in this area. Enough of them so that there are good schools but not much else going on in the winter.
Hitch hiked back with the director of Wooden Boat, cocktails in the bean-bag chairs on the foredeck. Lucy made dinner and we all hit the hay early.
Left Sommes around 9:30 down river to SW Harbor arount the end of Mt Desert Island then thru Blue Hills Band. Continued thru Casco Passage and truning right up Eggemogin Reach the wind built to 12-14 and we were on the famous Reach.
We reached Center Harbor around 1pm. Where we decided to post up for the night. This is the home of Brooklyn Boat Yard and just down the island from this is Wooden boat school that we wanted to explore.
BBY builds wooden boats. One of the most famous boats that they build is the W Class. They built the W-Boat that caught fire last year off of Cuttyhunk that Wendy Schmidt owned and Tom Pochman’s son was captaining.
This anchorage is abundant with a variety of small wooden classic sailboats from Friendship Sloops to Herreschoff 12.5’s There are also a few beautiful large fiberglass hulls in there.
The Yacht Club is very cool. It only has a single room, classic New England building that appears to function mainly as a summer camp for young kids living on the island and the main place in this harbor for them to have summer fun and learn to sail these classic boats.
The houses surrounding the coast are clearly generations of wealth. Got talking with a man whos sister lives in Oregon and the look forward every summer to their annual trip to the remote family compound on the coast of Maine. It is probably the same scene as the families on Tuckernuck.
One thing about the people in Maine is that they are overly friendly and can’t help you enough. We took up a mooring at the BBY and the CFO offered to give us a ride down to the Wooden Boat School. It was about 5 miles. He also owned the general store. The school is only open from June-September but the principal business for them is the publication of Wooden Boat Magazine. Up on a hill overlook the anchorage is a beautiful classic main house where the magazine is published. Along with it are multiple other boat building magazines specific to different building techniques. These two businesses support most of the year rounders in this area. Enough of them so that there are good schools but not much else going on in the winter.
Hitch hiked back with the director of Wooden Boat, cocktails in the bean-bag chairs on the foredeck. Lucy made dinner and we all hit the hay early.
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Trip from Nantucket to Penobscot Bay
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Sailing Adventures of the Catamaran "Meow" Summer 2015
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