Hello, Maine!

After our brief stop in Onset, MA, we grabbed the end of the favorable tide today to shoot us through the Cape Cod Canal (9.6 knots over ground!). Fog surrounded us as we slipped our mooring and stayed with us for the first hour. It was hauntingly beautiful.

As we raced across Cape Cod Bay under the iron gennie (no wind), I saw two fin whales! By midday we knew that getting to Isles of Shoals or Portsmouth/Kittery before dark was well within reach, so we scrapped our “sail overnight” plan and headed for Isles of Shoals. It’s Saturday night on a beautiful weekend, but somehow we lucked out and got a mooring just before sunset! And though many think this is in NH, it’s actually split between ME and NH and our mooring is in Maine!!! The islands here are closed due to COVID, but it’s fine with us. We are just happy to soak in this beautiful, rugged land!