Settling in

Settling in   …   Friday 6^th June 2014

43 46.056 N, 69 52.049 W

As you will have gathered from our last posting, the passage up to Maine went well. Nonetheless it still shocks me just how tiring these overnight passages can be. We were pretty much exhausted yesterday and still tired today. We have done 72-hour (Nassau to Fernandina Beach, FL) and 48-hour passages (Norfolk to New York) previously, but it still seems almost inconceivable to string together multiple nights with such limited sleep. If we want to go further afield in the future this is something that will require more work. Experienced sailors tell us that it takes about 3 days to really get into the swing of things.

It was really great that Gloria’s brother Paul and his wife Fran drove their van up to collect the three of us. My memory of the car ride back to Rhode Island was drifting in and out of consciousness for the first half of the drive and then being “wide awake” as we crawled round the outskirts of Boston in a seemingly endless traffic jam. After picking up “Tarzan” from Rod and Sue’s house we headed straight back home to Sudbury to catch up on some sleep. (FYI “Tarzan” is our Toyota Rav 4, aptly named to distinguish her from “Jane”, our former Toyota Corolla that now belongs to Tasha).

This morning we drove back up to Sebasco Harbor – so now we also have a car for the summer. We spent the afternoon moving over to our designated mooring in an area of the harbor that has less swells and then did some work cleaning up the boat. Tomorrow we need to start preparing to take real live customers out on day-sails. Yikes!

Sebasco Harbor Resort - as seen this afternoon from our mooring #28