Southwest Harbor

I’m sorry we haven’t posted in several days. We’re on a Mooring, and connectivity is spotty, to say the least. I just got a notice saying I was offline. I don’t even know if this post will get posted.

anyway, breaking news! When we left Rockland, we did not head for Camden as we had planned, we decided to go keep on going east and make it all the way up to Bar Harbor. The entire trip was foggy, but not rough. We had to use radar the entire way, and follow the charts and buoys carefully.

but now we’re on a mooring in Southwest Harbor, and it is spectacular!

This is the quintessential Maine cruising experience. We are moored at the Hinckley yard, and we are surrounded by gorgeous Hinckley‘s, both sail and power. There’s a brisk breeze today, and the sun on the water Is shattered into a million prismatic pieces. Off to our port are two antique schooners and one of the crewmembers working up at the top of the ratlines end all the way at the top of the mast. Authentic stuff!.

The view here is absolutely spectacular. Right now I am looking due North straight up a body of water called Soames Sound. it is 4 miles long 150 feet deep and is surrounded by 850 foot mountains. It was cut by a glacier and until sometime ago it WAS a glacier. It is now a fjord, and may be the only one, in America, at least on the East Coast. This will save me a trip to Norway. I’ve seen a fjord, right here in Maine

we will be here a day longer than I expected, because I need to have the bow thruster repaired something may have gotten lodged in there and either broken the sheer pin or broken a blade. We will know later today. Hinckley is going to haul us out of the water just after lunchtime. We have to wait for the tide to come in, because the tides here are about 10 feet, and we can’t get into the travel lift until high tide.
if we have to get stuck somewhere, this is absolutely the most spectacular place I can imagine. And once again, I am so lucky! Whenever anything breaks, I am near a full-service yard where I can get it repaired, and they are able to make a hole in their work schedule to service me.

I’m going to try to post this now, and I’ll try to post again once we know our schedule going forward.

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More photos from Southwest Harbor…spoiler alert: this, along with Pulpit Harbor (which will follow) were the high points of the trip.