[Rhodes22-list] Maine Sailing Anyone?

[Jesse Shumaker]

Jeff, thanks for sharing the trip and photos.  It's good to know your
experience with the Sea Eagle 370.  I'll be using that as a dinghy for the
first time on a road trip to a bigger lake over Labor Day weekend.  Nice
idea for the sunshade for the chart plotter.  I had put some magnets to
mount an Android tablet running Open CPN in that location, but then
realized the glare from the sun is problematic.

Jesse Shumaker
S/V Zephyr

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:24 PM JeffSmith <jeffsmithphoto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Radiant returned from Maine yesterday after 2 weeks on the road and sea.
> After stopping at the local trailer place to replace a tail light (but they
> both worked yesterday!) We drove for about 9 hours to Rockland and stayed
> in
> the Harbor View Hotel for a couple of nights to load and prep the boat.
> Hotels and restaurants make Emily happy and "Happy wife, etc." Thanks to
> research by Peter Nyberg we had a good launch at the Snow Park Ramp - the
> best in my limited experience - with a dock all along side.
> After a short motor (light wind on the nose) we took a mooring from Lyman
> Morse in Camden foe a couple of days to explore the town. A night in the
> Hartstone Inn where the beds were way too soft. And then on to the Fox
> Island Thoroughfare, where we picked up an open mooring in Perry Creek,
> where we stayed for three nights.
> Then on to Stonington for a couple of nights on the dock at billings marine
> and eventually back "home" to Rockland.
> The weather was spectacular! Delightful temps in the day and cool evenings
> as opposed to the high temps and humidity back in NJ. Very few bugs and the
> few mosquitoes were kept at bay by a THERMACELL device that worked off a
> camping gas can. Neither of us had a bite.
> The personnel at the marinas were outstanding!!! Friendly and helpful
> beyond
> belief. Shout Outs to Charles and Celia (who was very interested in the
> R22)
> at  Lyman Morse, Don at Billings and Mark the Harbormaster at Rockland, who
> helped us get the boat on the trailer.
> So a few lessons learned on our first cruise:
>
> 1. Bring less stuff! The boat is small (duh) and the constant shifting of
> bags to sleep or open the cabin is
>    a pain. We used half of what we brought. I also brought too many tools,
> which took up floor space.
> 2 The Sea Eagle 370 is about as small a dinghy that can be stowed under the
> seats and is fun - but wet.
>    It tracks very well, so there is not much reason to need to stow it at
> all.  Next time we will tow our
>    small Achilles inflatable.
> 3. The Igloo Cooler next to the icebox worked well, needing a couple of
> bags
> of ice every 2 days - and
>     kept the food, seltzers and beer cold.
> 4.  The Magma grill was good for the usual and even heated up locally
> bought
> pizza.
>
> Pix are here:
> >
> https://www.jeffsmithphoto.net/Rhodes-22-Radiant-2020-Penobscot-Bay-Sailing-Vacation/
>
>
>
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> Jeff Smith
> 2009 R22 #101 RADIANT
> Atlantic Highlands Municpal Harbor
> Atlantic Highlands, NJ
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