Castine 44:23N 68:48 W
Millybrown
Mark Hillmann
Wed 1 Oct 2008 16:16
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Castine was the first little town/village I came to
on the Penobscot River. It has a boatyard and a sea cadet training
school. I naturally asked at the boatyard about leaving the boat here
and have been talked into it. It is the offer to lend me a truck
to fetch crew from Bangor that decided me.
 It is a pleasant little place
with a supermarket and wi-fi at the restaurant next to the boatyard, which
is in the centre of this picture. The training school is just to the left
and most of the time there are small workboats driven by the pupils
manoeuvring around. I hope they are not first year students who have just
started.
I have managed to get American propane - not
gas, that confuses them and they think I cook on a petrol stove.
Across the river at Searsport harbour is a marine
mail order store. They have a large stock of everything and had a
propane system designed for barbeques. All
the local propane bottles are too big for my gas locker, but it is also
available in little plastic canisters for a grill and barbeque system.
Their regulator fits my gas pipe and I can fit four in my gas locker. They
may not last very long, but should be cheaper to run than the camping
gaz we use at home and was last refilled in St Pierre.
I can start having cups of coffee again.
While I was worrying about gas, meals were cooked, but cups of tea and coffee
seemed a lot of gas for little benefit. It was only after supper that I
allowed myself a coffee.
 I looked at another yard just up the river at Morse
Cove. Their landing stage is protected by a wrecked trawler. The
sloping walkway was rather exciting to use at low tide and the local facilities
would be a problem without a car. |