Wooden Boat Harbor to Center Harbor

Day 14: July 12, 2015

the Louis R. French

Today was a wonderfully relaxing day.  We began with one of my favorite breakfasts consisting of sausage gravy on toast.  A really neat thing about this area is that, although the wind may blow up to 15 mph during the day, it dies down around dinner time and by morning, the water is glassy.  This has happened almost every morning that we have been here.  This morning was no exception.

We spent the morning cleaning the boat, rearranging our food, emptying trash, etc.  The two schooners that I

The new sailing vessel, Foggy

discussed last night, the Louis R. French and the Angelique both ended up in the harbor allowing their passengers to tour the Woodenboat School.  I took the Dink for a spin so that I could get a few pictures of these beauties as well as a number of the wooden boats that are moored near us. The Angelique has no motor so they have a little pusher boat to move her when she needs assistance.  We watched both boats hoist their sails and sail out of the harbor.

One of a number of Foggy's window units

By noon, there was little wind so we were in no hurry to leave this great place.  About 2:00 a light breeze developed. So we pulled the anchor, raised the sails and had a really nice easy sail for about 5 or 6 miles to Central Harbor.  We traveled anywhere from 4.6 knots to 1.5 knots over the smooth waters. It was a really relaxing sail.  We were truly in no hurry, so this was perfect. 

 

Central Harbor is small and really packed with boats of all shapes and sizes.  We went past the last of the little boats moored out and found a spot that was about 2 ½ feet in depth.  We were setting anchor at low tide so we were convinced that it would not get any shallower.  If it does, the bottom is mud and the boat could settle on the bottom with no problem.

After we got the boat settled in, we headed for the dingy dock alongside of which – well let me take a clip from the Google regarding Foggy:

Foggy, Brooklin Boat Yard builds an artful automated sloop

By Panbo Marine Electronics | July 4th, 2015

Written by Ben Ellison on Jul 4, 2015 for Panbo, The Marine Electronics Hub

Meet Foggy, just launched on June 15th and still being finished out. What you can't see in my photos is how the 74 foot yacht's red carbon mast towers about 104 feet above the water while her 19,000 pound bulb keel draws nearly 12.5 feet. What's obvious, though, is the huge foam-cored and cambered teak deck and the bright topsides layer of her Western Larch, Western Cedar, and carbon fiber composite hull. Not to mention the, um, random-seeming clusters of embedded glass in both those surfaces..., Foggy has some 862 embedded chunks of carbon-reinforced glass forming two skylights and eight "daylights" (as apparently dubbed

A portion of Foggy's deck, not the imbedded windo

by the builders). Note how at least the top layer of the deck and topsides has often been bent or sawn to flow with the glass designs. And that, I suspect, is only one aspect of the boatbuilding challenges BBY encountered in this project. Are you beginning to think, as I do, that this is possibly the most unusual new sailboat anywhere?

For more information on this boat go to http://www.powerandmotoryacht.com/blogs/panbo/brooklin_boat_yard_builds_artful_automated_sloop

From the water front we walked toward the town of Brooklin.  On the way, we passed and stopped in at a little gallery that advertised hand-made paper.  The

The Gallery

owner was a really interesting lady who had spent time in Harrisonburg, VA and had an acquaintance who had gone to nursing school with Janine.  She had really nice stuff in her little shop and her niche was recovering old silk lamp shades with her hand made papers.  She also had a limited assortment of artwork and fine wood workings.

From there we continued our walk in to Brooklin.  We

The Brooklin Inn, Irish Pub and Restaurant

found the Brooklin Inn, Restaurant and Irish Pub where we planned to have dinner.  We were about 45 minutes early so the owner offered that we could go into the pub and have a beverage. We both enjoyed some sort of exotic beer and carried on an interesting conversation with the owner.  This Inn was built back in the 20’s during the height of the prohibition era and the original owner was reputed to be a bootlegger so there was probably some interesting history in the basement pub.

The Pub

For dinner we had an elegant meal.  I had duck confit which was a small duck breast, polenta, cooked radishes, and jellied raisins.  It was really good.  Janine had a wonderful chicken pot pie.  Fine dining in a tiny Maine town.  Since we were early, we were able to get a table but as the meal progressed, the place began filling up.  I guess it is the only dance in town.  We also watched folks come around to the back and head into the basement pub.

The Duck - Note the strange radishes

We walked back to the dock, rode the Dink around the cove for a bit and then returned to Second Wind.  We had been warned that the mosquito population was a force to be reckoned with and this evening, inside of the boat this suggestion became a reality.  There were truly hundreds of these dive bombers (well may be I exaggerate a bit) invaded our floating home.  We sprayed Raid flying bug spray around and finally got them under control. We read until bed time.  It was a great day.