Just off the coast of Islesboro lies Warren Island State Park, which can only be accessed via private boat. The park maintains nine moorings between Warren Island and Spruce Island, available on a first-come-first-served basis for $20/night, and the mooring field is well protected from most wind directions. We fell in love with this beautiful, […]
A Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast describes Camden as “…one of the jewels of Penobscot Bay,” and gives it five stars, and I can see why. In one direction, you have beautiful sunrise views over the Penobscot, and in the other, the sun sets just behind the picturesque Camden hills. Windjammers sail in and […]
If you think of quiet little fishing harbors, pine forests ending in seaweed-covered rocky shores, and pitch black nights as quintessential Maine, you need to visit Pulpit Harbor. Tucked away on the west side of North Haven, the entrance is hidden by Pulpit Rock, topped by an osprey nest that’s over 150 years old and […]
Maine cruising isn’t easy – between the fog, thick carpets of lobster traps, and unforgiving rocky shoreline, you’ve got to be on constant alert. But the more of the Maine coast we explore, the more I find myself falling in love. I’m a total lighthouse nerd, and I am in absolute heaven – we see […]
We wish we’d had some time to explore Casco Bay – we passed so many pretty little spots – but we’re trying to get up to Belfast to get our estimate done there too, so it was time to move on. We’d heard so much about Boothbay that we had to add it to our […]
Sailing into Portland was another bucket list experience – we’d vacationed here almost 20 years ago and I remember talking way back then about how cool it would be to arrive on our own boat someday. For a lighthouse nerd (me), it was so incredibly cool to pass so many (I promise you’re going to […]
Friday morning we sailed for Portsmouth. We chose to get an early start so we could catch what little breeze was forecast for the day, and sailing out past Beverly was beautiful. We sailed past little rocky islands that looked like what we imagined Maine would be like, past Hospital Point Lighthouse and Bakers Island […]
The Cape Cod Canal has been a bucket list thing for both of us for years, and we were super excited to finally do it. It was a gray, damp and chilly morning, and Chris and I were dressed for full-on winter… we even put on sneakers. But nothing could dampen our spirits as we […]
Buzzards Bay has a (well earned) nasty reputation. In the summer, there’s a consistent southwesterly afternoon sea breeze, and with up to 5.5kts of current at its peak, the ebb tide flowing out of the Cape Cod Canal can cause some gnarly standing waves. Growing up nearby, this was not news to us, so we […]
Arriving back on Block is one of my favorite things in the world. I always look forward to our time here, even if this year it’s unusually short. We arrived to find another club member already on the HYC mooring, and while we normally would have rafted up, the wind was blowing 20-25 and they […]