Rockland, ME 1 August 2007

We are heading west and south again. My goodness it is already the First of August! We are anchored off Rockland, ME this evening and will work our way back to Linekin Bay near Boothbay tomorrow. Our journey took us through some very beautiful sections of the area as we passed through two long thorofares for Deer Island and Vinalhaven Island. Thorofares are passages through the various canals and between little islands that form the larger land structure. Using thorofares involves a lot of changes in course, attention to the aids to navigation and watching out for the little buoys that mark the location of the lobster pots.



Sunset last night at Somesville Harbor. The weather (eg FOG) has cleared and we can move on.

Goodbye Mt. Desert Island. We really enjoyed our visit and would love to return again. A number of boaters we met in the harbor have returned year after year and stay for one or two weeks every summer.

Bass Harbor Head Light. We went over the bar which is very narrow and relatively shallow at the tip of Mt. Desert Island. The current over the bar gave us an additional favorable 2 knots of speed.

This is the motor vessel XIII. We cannot seem to get away from her. She literally bumped into us on the pier at Charleston, SC a few months ago when she had problems with her bow thruster. She went zooming by us twice today on our way to Rockland.

Stonington, ME on Deer Island. There is a working rock quarry here and we could hear the machinery going as we went through the channel of the town.

Some young sailors in the channel in the Thorofare at Vinalhaven Island this afternoon.