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Wednesday 22^nd Aug

Crept out of the beautiful Pulpit Harbor at the bottom of the tide and were all pretty amazed at how the banks of the creek reach right out to where we were anchored overnight.

We made our way under engine as again there was simply no wind at all, round to Perry Creek. This involved cruising down the ‘thoroughfare’ which is the waterway between Vinalhaven and North Haven Islands, before wending and weaving our way again through gaps in between small islands and rocks into yet another secluded and totally protected creek. We assumed being a bit late that we would have to anchor here, but as we came in, Doug on Blue Water kindly hailed us on the radio and invited us to raft up alongside them on a mooring buoy.  They were hoping to spend the evening with us, but we had already accepted a 1700 hours drinks invite on board Al Shaheen, issued to all the British boats.

But first we had the small matter of the main event of the day which involved us all whizzing across the outer bay in our dinghies to the beautiful house and gardens where Harvey and Pam Geiger had kindly invited us all for lunch.

On our return to Perry Creek, Doug and his wife Dale who incidentally have been the rally organisers, had some very sad family news and needed to return home at once. But as it happened they had two friends on board who were very keen to make the Rally’s visit on Thursday to Hurricane Island, so we invited them to jump ship and stay on Serafina for 24 hours and we could drop them on the mainland after the rally finished on Thursday afternoon, as we were heading to Rockland for some fuel.  John and Wendy seemed delighted at this suggestion so they transferred (all) their bags (plus meal ingredients!) onto Serafina and we took over the mooring buoy lines and Doug, Dale and Blue Water motored off back to Camden.

We could hardly leave our new crewmates alone on board whilst we headed off to the British drinks do, so of course we took them with us. Meanwhile Rebecca and Sid from ‘Dovka’ had come over to invite us for supper later and so we all four accepted that offer as well…….

Not a very early night as it turned out.