Further Adventures Of SV Nutmeg

  8/11- Perry Creek, Vinal Haven, ME      I headed in to town today to pick up a few things at the grocery store. The trouble is every time I go into a grocery store I spend $50. With the price of groceries it’s not hard but today I only needed a couple of vegis and some chips. I could barely carry what I came out with. In fact that was the limiting factor in how much I bought. We wouldn’t want to run out of food.       We decided to head out of town so we packed up and sailed away. Well mostly anyway as the wind had not yet woken up. After using the motor to bump us to the wind we had a very nice close reach and sailed all the way into North Haven.        Picking up a mooring here in Perry Creek has changed a bit since we were here two years ago. Our friend John who was the unofficial mayor of Perry Creek has been ill and not able to resume his duties so it’s a bit more of a free for all.        One of the ...

 8/10- Rockland ME   This morning Rockland vanished into the fog. The cloud just seemed to roll right over us and at one point I could not see shore. It did clear before too long and became a really nice day.      We dinghied into to shore so we could walk down to the boat and home show. We waited until afternoon so that we wouldn’t have to pay the $15 entry fee. As it turns out I was handed a pair of tickets from a friend so we headed right over. As per usual there was nothing at the show that was particularly interesting but we did pick up some swag. We did check out the 60 foot power boat mostly because after having enough of these go by me I wanted to see what they looked like inside. The most interesting part was the bridge deck. It had 4 30” TV screens with the chart plotter on one and videos from all over the boat on another. No wonder these people can never see me the screens are bigger than the windows.     We also got to get on board the...

 8/9-Rockland ME   Today was the day we recovered from the cruise. We had a bunch of chores to do such as laundry and grocery shopping. That took up most of the morning and a bit of the afternoon. Yesterday when trying to roll up the jib in 25 knot winds I had to put it on the winch in order to get in. That rolled it up so tight I used all the line on the drum. Also in a lesson in chaos theory the line had tied itself a knot in the middle of the sheet. It was so tight I had to use pliers to get it out.      The other thing that happened yesterday was as I was furling the mainsail on the boom I ripped a big chunk of the edge tape. I guess that was a sign that I need a new mainsail. Good thing I have one ordered. I had to patch this as it was on the leech and would have lengthened in the wind. When I went to buy sail repair tape they only had it in red, black(?), and blue. At least I’ll be able to find the patch easily enough.      I have been makin...

 8/8- Rockland ME    It seems we have finally gotten into the swing of this Maine cruising. We are the kind of people who get up and want to go. That unfortunately means we often get to our destination just as the wind starts to pipe up. Experienced Maine sailors have told me you never leave before 11:00. Well today we got close as we left around 10:30.      As we pulled out into the thorofare I looked back and it looked like the Spanish Armada was coming. There was a long line of boats both sail and power steaming intently into the thorofare. There were AIS targets filling the screen of the chart plotter. Eventually, which turned out to be right at North Haven, the armada caught up to us. Talk about being in a washing machine. There were boats coming and going in a fairly narrow stretch of water.      Once we got around the corner we peeled off and ran up our sails. Now everybody could go by us which they promptly did. After a couple of tack...

 8/7- Carver Cove, Vinal Haven ME   It was a slow start to the day as again the water was flat calm. We enjoyed the company of friends while we waited for the predicted wind to make its appearance.     The slowness continued as we set sail and poked along at 2 knots or so. Every once in a while a gust would come along and push us to the extremes of 3 knots. As we approached the west side of East Penobscot Bay we found the gusts more pronounced sometimes even getting us up to 4 knots.      Once we got near the thorofare though the wind picked up nicely and we were flying on a great close reach. We sailed right up to Carver Cove where we dropped our anchor.     It turns out we had 2 other CD 36’s pull in and fill up the anchorage with style. We visited with everybody and congratulated them on their great choice in boats. This is the next to the last night of the CDSOA cruise and we had some spectacular weather this past week. We met a...

 8/6- Laundry Cove, Isle Au Haut ME    The day started with the wind like some people think the earth is - flat. It was another in a string of beautiful mornings. We just sort of hung around waiting for the wind to fall off the edge. Around 10am the breeze roared to life and away we went. It was coming of course from directly where we wanted to go so we got the sails up and commenced with our tacking drills. None of the tacks was very long as the reach was narrow here and we had to get around the green can. After 5 or 6 tacks we got around the can and settled into a nice close reach.     As we passed Greens Ledge we turned more westerly and the wind proceeded to disappear. As we were drifting onto the ledge and in the middle of a field of lobster pots we put on the motor. Within minutes the wind picked up again so out comes the Yankee. That lasted 20 minutes or so before the wind went missing so we put the motor on. Of course 10 minutes later the wind re-em...