Waking up in the morning planning to depart Boothbay Harbor we were surrounded by fog and one of the fishermen told us visibility out at sea was very bad and seas rolly.

We decided to depart anyway but to navigate Dora Mac from the flybridge all day for better control of lobster pots.

Once coming out to sea visibility was severely reduced and old seas with short period gave an uncomfortable roll. To use paravanes in fog in lobster pot infested waters is not an option so we needed to adapt to the rolling with all time focus on radar as well as lobster pots. We met several fishing boats on the way seen on radar and heard in the fog, but never seen. Our VHF was hailing fog horn signals every second minute all day long and due to counter currents on the way we were delayed making landfall in Rockland in darkness.

Since gale winds from NNE was appraoching we dropped anchor in the north east part of the bay with very good holding in mud and now rain was pooring down and temperature had dropped to just over zero.