Mercedes was recommended to visit Boothbay Harbor by sailing friends on Facebook and Predictwind forecasted a great weather window for passage to Nova Scotia November 3-4.

It was a beautiful day out at sea heading for Boothbay Hbr with all coastline dressed in autumn colours reminding me of home. Passing close to some of the fishing boats picking up lobster pots we saw many of them using a stabilising sail aft of the pilothouse, just like Dora Mac.

Once in the bay of Boothbay Hbr we saw loads of moorings but the ones belonging to the marinas (Carousel and Browns Marina) where not accessible and trying to reach the harbourmaster on VHF or telephone was impossible.

In the end we took a mooring with Plummer written on it but it didn´t say private. Launching the dinghy we easily found the public landing dock and the village is beautiful and charmy although very silent this time of the year. The only cab in the area brought us to Hannafords supermarket stocking up supplies with passage to Nova Scotia November 3-4 in mind.

In the evening Mercedes was contacted on Facebook by the owner of the "Plummer mooring". We were told that we could use it as long as we needed. 

Time after time we are struck by the kindness and helpfulness we have met on our tour along the US east coast. It´s the kind of glue every society needs to thrive and although there´s probably a difference between big and small cities and perhaps coastline and inland this is more frequent in the US than we have met elsewhere.