Knowing this would be a little longer day we got an earlier start. We were underway around 8 am, as was nearly every other vessel in our anchorage. Funny, when we got there (around 3 pm yesterday) we were the 3rd boat to drop the hook. By nightfall, there were around 12 of us. Good anchorage too -- calm night, good place to sleep.
However, we had fog. As we traveled it got thick in places. It lifted after a couple of hours, just about 30 minutes before we reached Isle of Shoals. We though hard about staying there for the night. But it was fairly early. There are no moorings for transits vessels. The deal was "grab one, but be prepared to leave if the owner shows up." Watching our AIS we saw a steady stream of boats leaving Portsmouth and heading to the isles. Additionally, recent reviews say there are half as many moorings as there used to be due to some reworking of their breakwall. We really didn't want to be kicked off all the balls and have to travel later in the evening, so we put it on the "maybe when we come back" list. Hopefully on a weekday, and not a weekend.
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| Foggy morning. |
We turned toward Portland, thinking maybe we'd just jam all the way there. Then Russ found Saco Bay, which made our trip about 2 hours shorter. And, hey, we hadn't been there before.
We grabbed a mooring ball. Turns out you can anchor here, too, and the launch will come get you either way. Not much of a town to speak of but they have a little grocery and deli where you can grab some dinner. And we did.
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| The lighthouse at Isle of Shoals |
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| The moors at Biddeford. inQuest is out there, on the right. |
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