2009 Back from England to Maine
Millybrown
Mark Hillmann
Mon 27 Apr 2009 13:43
 Lorna and I flew back after a few months
work and are staying at a motel in Royal River, just down the road from the
boat.
I started thinking everything was more
expensive than remembered, but the dollar is not almost a pound, that
is the Euro: The dollar is still only 70p.
Milly Brown has been cut out of the
shrink-wrap, used here to keep snow off the boats. There was four
feet of snow for much of the winter.
 The new antifouling is now on and the yard has
repaired the bump in the keel from Greenland.
 Today was spent polishing the boat and
Lorna painted the boot-topping. That is the line above the
antifouling.
We have hired a car, well a small bus really, which
Lorna drives with determination, wondering what the Americans will do
next.
As a day off from the work yesterday, we went through to Bath and on to Boothbay Harbour, a tourist place.  This bridge was interesting, it is being repaired,
but is made of stone grillage to let the water through. I have never seen
anything like that in the UK. The one behind is a long temporary
bridge.
 For those who accused me of throwing crew
overboard to avoid paying them, here is a picture of Helgur and Sigrit on
their way home to Estonia a week ago. They stopped with us for a few
days after flying in from Costa Rica, Nicuragua and Mexico.
Bassenthwaite in the Lake District and Skiddaw
are behind them. You can check that they still have the same
hats they wore in Greenland.
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