Heading south from New Brunswick

From Gagetown, we returned to the Royal Kennebeccasis Yacht Club on August 20th. By the time we reached the RKYC the wind was blowing so hard no one could raft up with our trek's boats that were already on a mooring, so we anchored in the lee shelter of an island near the club. That night at dinner we discussed how we would proceed through the reversing falls the next day: those who wanted would make the crossing in the dark at around 0500; others would make the crossing at about 1300. We elected to make our crossing in daylight at the slack tide around 1300. It was relatively uneventful.

From St. John we went to Dipper Harbor for the night, and the next day proceeded to St. Andrews on Passamaquody Bay. The sun came out and the weather was the best we'd had the entire time in Canada, so we elected to stay the full day on Saturday. We had a great day touring the gardens and walking around the town.

We departed on Sunday, August 24th, and several hours later had checked back into the United States at Eastport, Maine. We then headed out around Campobello Island and made it to Roque Island Harbor that night. From there we returned to Northeast Harbor, Maine, for a night (we climbed to the gardens there - in sunshine), and then to Southern Harbor on North Vinylhaven Island, back to Snow Island on the northeastern side of Casco Bay, and finally to Portland where we enjoyed the Labor Day weekend with friends before heading out again on Monday, September 1st.

Since then we've stopped at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Scituate and South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and then stopped at a marina in Warwick Cove, Rhode Island, to wait out the remnants of Hanna as she made her way up the coast. We departed Warwick Cove this morning and are now in Wickford, Rhode Island, about 8 miles from the ocean and Rhode Island Sound. The forecast for tomorrow looks good, so we're going to get underway at the earliest light tomorrow morning heading for Long Island Sound and as far as we can get before dark. We hope to cross Long Island Sound to Great Kills, New York, in two more days.

Since leaving Portland the weather has been fairly good, with only a few days of fog.