Linekin Bay, Boothbay Harbor, Maine

Serafina
Rob & Sarah Bell
Thu 29 Aug 2013 03:06

43:51.5N 69:35.5W

 

Tuesday & Wednesday 27th & 28th August

 

Another lovely sunny morning as we headed off shortly before 0900 hours for the 20 mile trip to Linekin Bay. The lobster pots are as thick on the ground around Port Clyde as anywhere up here and so it was quite  tricky start, but we were soon heading more offshore where the new threat seemed to be a thickening fog, but fortunately this did not get any worse and by the time we headed up into Linekin bay, it was clear and sunny again, but absolutely no wind all day.

 

We had vague directions to a mooring buoy that had been arranged by our friends David and Candy, but we did not have to worry for long as David came out in a whaler to meet us and show us the way.  They are staying for two weeks in Candy’s parents’ summer residence on the banks of the harbour and in addition to their dock they also have several motor boats which proved handy as we did not have to launch our own dinghy this time.

 

We were in time to join them all for lunch (David & Candy and staying with them are Phil, Monica and Lucia who we first met in Washington last summer). The afternoon slipped by with Sarah making a surprise decision to go for a swim with Lucia, whilst I passed the time partly just sitting on the porch chatting to David and Phil. In the evening they invited us for a delicious lobster supper which was augmented with steak and clams and various salads, and two pies for pudding (definitely the way to Sarah’s heart) before running us back out to Serafina in their launch.

 

Wednesday dawned foggy, but not too bad and it soon dissipated to leave a nice sunny day yet again. After some boat chores, Sarah set off for the best part of the day with Candy, Monica and Lucia to walk to Boothbay Harbor Town (spotting two Chipmunks on the way) whilst I remained on board and got a fair number of jobs and maintenance items completed. In the late afternoon Phil and David came out in the launch to tackle the problem we have been having with the gas (LPG) system and what appeared to be a faulty solenoid. Phil however has had experience of this problem and diagnosed it correctly as a build-up of water and oil in the gas pipe itself. So we disconnected both ends of the system and blew compressed air through and were amazed by the huge amount of oil that came out – no wonder the gas system had been struggling to light!  Presumably we had picked up this when one of the bottles was being filled and hopefully it will not be repeated, but at least this is another fix we have now learnt.