We have spent the past week exploring Blue Hill Bay, taking in various anchorages never farther than about 15 miles apart. Blue Hill bay is a bit off the beaten track, but has been perfect with weather a little less than ideal for gunk holing and exploring. We have taken the dinghy up Union River about 6 miles and through the intricate Blue Hill harbor.
The sailing has been very good, using SSE winds of about 10 knots we have been able to close reach and broad reach from anchorage to anchorage. The waters are very deep and relatively speaking problem free. Nice gooey mud for the anchor as well.
The seal population up the bay is rather fantastic, they hang out on the ledges in the afternoon and sun bath. In the mornings and early evenings they will cruise around, particularly if the tide is running and snatch in a few fish. In the Union River we saw about 10 seals, one in a group of 4 cruising together.
It looks like we have high pressure moving into the area towards mid next week, which hopefully will bring a touch warmer temperatures and a little less clouds/rain. We expect to move out of Blue Hill bay and begin exploring the Merchant island “group” down to Isle Au Haut over the next week.
Begging for bad karma now… seems the dinghy has been repaired. The third patch, on which I used 5200 seems to be holding very well. Now on to the SSB which in speaking with Icom seems to have problems working with the tuner. I guess by the end of 2 years everything will be working.
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Dave i liked
"The wised captain of many a sea voyage, gets up, turns off the radar alert function, advises to not hit the whale and goes back to sleep".
What a nice comment , Dave see that you are enjoing the dventure, do we may propose weather routing as assitance to avoid fog parches ? have smooth sea and friendly winds
cheers Angelo
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