We woke to weather as promised. Charlie was up first, making enough noise so that we would wake up. I had set my alarm for 05:00, but Charlie thought we were leaving at 05:00 (there had been a last change of plans as we were turning in that Charlie had not heard). The revised forecast had a possibility of thunderstorms in Portland in the early afternoon. Leaving early, we had plenty of time to be on our mooring before the storms hit. As I had promised our crew the night before, we had perfect reaching conditions to Portland. We hit a top speed under sail of 8 knots SOG.
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| The first sight on our course, not far from York, was picturesque Nubble Light. |
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| Looking back, Cape Neddick and the light were lit up by the sun |
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| We continued on our way with great reaching conditions. |
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| By the time we reached Cape Elizabeth, the wind had dropped and we were motoring. |
We arrived at our destination, Handy Boat, in Falmouth Foreside, around noon. We spent some time on the service dock where we met Charlie, the assistant service manager, and discussed our refrigeration problem with him. Charlies sister came to pick him up while we were at the dock which made his departure easy. It had been great to have him aboard on our "delivery" trip to Maine. We met up with fellow Corinthian Bill Kimbell, who had also delivered his boat to Portland early and was on a mooring at Handy Boat. After moving to out mooring and having a nap, we took the launch in for dinner at the Dockside Grille.
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| Dinner included Damariscotta oysters for Diane and me. |
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| Falmouth Foreside mooring field after sunset |
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