Rockland, Camden & Rockport 44:06.00N 69:04.00W
Lotus
Mon 23 Aug 2010 21:25
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We spent a restful few days in and around the three
ports of Rockland, Camden and Rockport. Well, not such a restful few days
in Rockport, where John set to dismantling the steering pedestal
and grinding off the welds on the linkages so that he could fit new
bearings to the steering system. Luckily the boatyard that had ordered the
parts on our behalf were most helpful and let him use their facilities in the
workshop and did some welding on the final linkage. John sighed with
relief that the job was finished and I sighed with relief that I didn't have to
listen to his whinging anymore.
  We were lucky that the repair time corresponded
with one of our first foggy days in Maine, almost a complete white out.
The next day when it lifted we made the short hop over to Pulpit harbour in
25knot winds, passing an Osprey nest on Pulpit Rock which guarded the
entrance. We pootled around this beautiful natural harbour in our
tender and stopped to speak to the other half in their 70ft Cayman Island
registered yacht, surprisingly they did not invited us onboard for drinks,
despite John being on his best behaviour.
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