We got into Rockland and did some laundry and grocery shopping. Natalie (Trip’s niece) arrived Thursday and the plan was to sail out next morning. We knew we were going to get some winds that night, but they were coming from the south or southwest and the anchorage is well protected. Unfortunately the gusts were up to 30 knots and the creak of of the bridle lines kept me awake for some time. Then around 3 am the winds unexpectedly shifted to the northeast. We were still riding fine, but some boats were rolling so hard they moved to the northern anchorage and one boat (identical to ours) dragged anchor and wound its way through the mooring field, luckily not doing much damage to itself or other boats.
Despite the forecast for favorable winds (didn’t happen), we motor sailed over to Seal Bay. Our first attempt at anchoring had us drifting a little too close for comfort to a motor boat (combination of wind and current moving boats differently), so we moved. We wound up anchoring waaaaaay down in the inner inner cove past all the other boats, just at the edge of the private moorings. We knew it would be about 8 feet at low tide (we draw 6 feet), but we should be fine.
We dropped the dinghy and decided to circumnavigate Penobscot Island. We came across several osprey fishing and a rock full of harp seals that didn’t quite know what to make of us.
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