Boothbay Harbor, ME 4 September 2008

We have been in Boothbay for a few days. We were hoping to head to Cape Cod a couple of days ago, but Tropical Storm Hanna is interfering with our plans. Its track is up the East Coast and will be touching the Maine coast on Sunday. We have decided to wait it out here and spend the weekend in a slip tucked in a corner of the harbor under the protection of the hills surrounding the town.

We stayed on a mooring at a local marina, Wotton Wharf, for a couple of days and this was our neighbor on the dock. She is the 153 foot Sailing Vessel Antara. Is a part of a charter fleet. You and 8 of your friends can charter her for $150,000 per week. 12 of these boats are going to be in Boothbay for a race this coming weekend.




The next day the 125 foot Freedom arrived at the marina. Here she is backing into a spot on the dock behind Antara. The captain was demonstrating excellent seamanship in this maneuver as the winds were quite gusty.

We are waiting out the weather situation (weather here is really nice by the way) by doing lots of reading. The local library has one of the best used books stores that we have found in our cruising. We always make several visits while we are here. One their porch they give some of the books one last chance and offer them at the astonishing price of 10 cents a piece. We have found some really interesting books in this "collection".