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overnight to MDI and SW Harbor.
In Response To: I'm convinced the best approach is to sail overnight to Penobscot Bay. 
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() Then you can work your way back along the coast. For the most part the wind will be on your nose the whole way back. There is really nothing east of Bar Harbor but you could spend a month in Penobscot and Blue Hill bay area.
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- Maine for the first-timer?
- I'm convinced the best approach is to sail overnight to Penobscot Bay.
- We'd leave the boat if weather required it
- overnight to MDI and SW Harbor.
- A bit on southern Maine
- Pen Bay/MDI area
- Different strokes...
- All the detours are off the straightline unfortunately.
- Yeah but we try not to push the miles
- MDI is about 180 miles from the northeast end of the cape cod canal...
- Then I'd change your plan, "a 10 or 12-day "window" to travel to Maine and back"
- If the stars align we could make it from CCC to MDI in two days without pushing
- That's half the fun of being on a schedule. I get a little bored waiting for weather.
- Time has a way of doing that. When you're ready to move on
- 3 weeks, that's the best plan.
- If I had two crew and a weather window
- I hear you. I don't even try to sleep.
- The traps are thick here too
- I hear you. I don't even try to sleep.
- If I had two crew and a weather window
- 3 weeks, that's the best plan.
- Time has a way of doing that. When you're ready to move on
- That's half the fun of being on a schedule. I get a little bored waiting for weather.
- If the stars align we could make it from CCC to MDI in two days without pushing
- Then, conceptually, Larry
- Yeah but we try not to push the miles
- All the detours are off the straightline unfortunately.
- I would jump across to MDI and then work your way south from there
- Agree with Todd.
- I've found that the start SW Harbour and move east, then south make sense.
- unfortunately, your schedule is dictating your route
- I'm convinced the best approach is to sail overnight to Penobscot Bay.
