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• Wanted: The Worlds Greatest Sails.
  • Here's my current choice. Slicing Penobscot Bay
  • An idyllic day while crossing the Pacific.
    • Nice!
  • August 2009
    • When you have to get somewhere, and everything aligns for the right sailing conditions,
      • Here's a screen snip
  • Southwest Harbor to Roque
    • Wow, those conditions conjur up visions of what that sail would be like.
      • I haven't been there (yet)...but don't you enter the Roque Island beach area generally from the SE?
        • Not a large tide to us
        • On my trip to Roque, went to the N side.
          • Not living on the river anymore....
            • We have friends across the bay in Perry, ME
      • Spent the night in Bunker Cove
        • How far into Bunker Cove can you anchor?
          • Anchoring in Bunker
        • Pretty tight for me!
          • Little farther zoom-out
            • I often sail in between Great Spruce and Double Shot when heading for Great Beach.
          • Lots of room for one.....
            • Referring to Bunker Cove.
            • It's the 6' and the 3' w/ 19' (or whatever) tides that worry me. ;^)))
              • The thorofare is a lot wider than it looks on the chart. It is an easy passage.
      • I prefer Roque when everybody has gone home.
  • Sails or sightseeing??
    • For me, the sights, the sounds, the smells are the pieces that make a great sail.
  • This midnight sail is one of our favourites
    • This was about 0100, but no longer sailing
      • What's the knob on the binnacle cover? (If that's a binnacle cover?)
      • The knob is for a Ram-mount to hold an iPad
        • Sure Neil... that's what it's for.. (Great pics!)
    • Wow! I imagine it was a favorite. What a scene.
  • Yesterdays Sail Rates right up there for me
  • Delivery trip from CT to ME last June...
    • What was the cause of the engine problems, Nat?
      • Combination of things, fuel system related
        • Yep, a little air in the system on a Perkins
          • Steve, it was all due to little adapter making the
            • Don't you just want to throttle someone who
  • Aruba to Mobile, Al.
    • Why so early? They get REAL winter up there this time of the year.