Mid July 2015, we headed north east to Maine.
After a night anchored in Hadley harbor in the Elizabeth Islands we headed through the Cape Cod Canal to Gloucester, homeport for the Andrea Gail in the Perfect Storm. We anchored in the inter harbor.
The next night we anchored between Great Diamond and Peaks Islands in the greater Portland Maine Harbor. The following evening we picked up a mooring in picturesque Camden Harbor where we spent the next week with Dina and Jeff. Dina was a brides maid in our wedding, and she and her husband Jeff live in Maine. Thanks to Both of them we had a great lobster dinner overlooking the Harbor on their last night.
While in Camden we watched a number of large restored wooden gaff rigged schooners come and go as well as several aspects of youth sailing programs which were evident in the Harbor. We also experienced Camden fog erasing first the town and then the boats around us. With their reappearance, first came mist and then increasingly greater clarity.
In the sloping park at the end of the Harbor, with its lawn falling to the water, we watched a weekly concert on the grass while most watched sitting on garden walls which formed an outdoor amphitheater next to the town library. All as an artist worked to capture these picturesque scenes on canvas.
Glochester Harbor
Wooden sailboat docked in Gloucester
Picturest Camden from our mooring
Youth sailing in Camden was very active
In tow to the race course
Racing underway
Evening concert in the grass amphitheater
Jeff, Dena, Beth and Jackie at the concert
Shopping in Camden
More shopping
Dinner in Camden
Wooden schooners
Schooner and church
More schooners
Rigging a schooner with wood blocks
The park at the end of the Harbor
Interestingly detailed wooden sailboat
Cruising trawler appearing in the fog
Gaffed rigged sloop in the fog
Schooner disappearing in fog
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