May 24th  Sunday

     I have to put the day of the week in there because we are already starting to forget!  Those of you following us on https://share.delorme.com/danandkathy may have noticed there have been some technical errors.  Most of it is operator error as Dan figures out exactly how it works (and how it doesn’t.)  We are trying to stay on top of it, so please bear with us.

     When we left Boothbay Harbor on Saturday we ran into 25 knots of wind.  I stood up on the cabin top with our anemometer and recorded a gust of over 35 knots and we made the decision to turn around and drop anchor.  Good news - we found out how well the anchor holds in that kind of wind. And had we gotten the anchor for free I would tell you what kind it is.  We spent Saturday organizing the boat and figuring out permanent places for much of the stuff still decorating the counters, table, bench, and soles.  The weather calmed down enough come evening so we decided to cross the Sheepscot River to Harmon Harbor where we spent a very snug night.

     Today we pushed on to Portland.  It was NOT a comfortable day - still a large swell running, still quite windy out there, and we were cold - but we decided to go for it anyway. We’re in South Portland for the night after enjoying a great moose-meat spaghetti dinner with son Bill.