Further Adventures Of SV Nutmeg

 7/3- Falmouth ME    We got up early this morning and headed out to explore a little around Falmouth. We were trying to beat some of the heat so we sort of woke the place up. There was a nature preserve just down the road a bit and we hiked there to get another proper walk in the woods. It was not terribly exciting but nonetheless it was exercise.     A thunderstorm rolled through in the early afternoon with some pretty impressive thunder claps. Some guy in a 50 foot boat was trying to beat the storm onto his mooring. His poor wife missed the mooring lines three times before hooking them and then dropped the boat hook. It then started to rain pretty good and she apparently had had enough and went inside. The guy tried three more times to catch the lines before just driving away. He came back later and finally got tied on.     In other marina news a 40 foot cabin cruiser sank at his mooring last night. Apparently a shaft seal burst and it slow...

 7/2- Falmouth, ME   Well today we did a whole lot of nothing. We tackled some boat chores in the morning but after that nada. It was one of these not super hot but humid days where you just feel heavier. It was hard to get fired up to do anything.     One interesting thing about this place is that there is a ton of boat traffic. Our mooring is on the front row next to the main fairway and only a couple of hundred yards from the fuel dock. There are boats of all kinds buzzing by here all day long. The next several days should really be interesting with the long holiday weekend.     The launches are constantly tooling by us as with  over a thousand boats here storing dinghies would be almost impossible. The launches rides are fun and you get to meet all kinds of people. We just get on them and tell the driver to do his rounds so we can have a boat ride.     Another interesting thing is looking out over the mooring field at night...

 7/1- Handy’s Boatyard, Falmouth ME   When I got up this morning I could not see the island which was 200 yards away. By the way for those of you who were wondering about how I slept last night, I mostly slept fine. Of course I shut all the hatches and pulled the pillows over my head so the breaking waves were mostly muffled.      Back to this morning the fog was very thick so we hung out a bit while waiting for Handy’s to tell us they had a mooring for us. Once we got the ok we headed out. You could see about an 1/8th of a mile. Fortunately there were not a lot of lobster pots in this stretch. It was however exposed to the ocean waves to which we were sideways. It made for an awfully rolly ride. Once we turned the corner it cleared right up and the sun came out.     Sailing in the fog is certainly interesting. I just love the way things appear out of the fog as if they were being assembled molecule by molecule. It was cool to see the tops of the ...