[alberg30] Re: sailing to Maine, Part2

[Robert E Johns]

From: Robert E Johns <bobjns at nais.com>

Marjorie & Bill

Part 2 of 2.

The following is a list of places we remember especially from our Maine
cruising. Read it from bottom to top (it's arranged very roughly from west
to east):

	Isles Of Shoals, NH (Get in early to get a club mooring - poor
holding ground)

	Biddleford Pool

	Richmond Island (often convenient stopping point; no facilities)

	Falmouth Foreside (north of Portland)

	Jewell Island

	Eagle Island State Park

	Quohog Bay

	The Basin (New Meadows River - lobsters across the river)

	Inside passage from Boothbay Harbor to Bath (Robin Hood) (Check
guide for tidal info)

	Damariscotta (Nature Conservancy)

	Christmas Cove

	Tenants Harbor ( anchor in Long Cove)

	Friendship

	Rockport

	Thorofares (esp. Fox Island)

	Camden

	Castine (Smith Cove)

	Mackeral Cove

	Pulpit Harbor

	Damariscotta River

	Pemaquid Harbor

	Cranberry Island

	St George River

	Hurricane Island

	Ragged Island (Creehaven Harbor)

	Isle Au Haut Thorofare

	Burnt Island Thorofare

	Deer Island

	Billings Harbor (Lobster)

	Northwest Harbor

	Frenchboro (See Bob Strange for important info)

	Blue Hill

	Somes Sound

	Sorrento

	Winter Harbor



This list is only a sampling of places to go and fails to list dozens of
other great places - don't try to hit them all and don't be afraid to try
places not listed above. Part of the reason we have made so many cruises to
Maine is that there are always new places to go and old places you want to
return to.

For a cruising guide we have used various editions of Duncan & Ware's "A
Cruising Guide To The New England Coast". Another is "Cruising Guide To
Maine" in two volumes by Don Johnson. There are others. Be sure to have at
least one recent guide. Use the list above with the guide.

Some places en route to Maine are no discharge zones where you must have a
holding tank (Block Island's Great Salt Pond for example).

If you return via Long Island Sound, we're at Northport Yacht Club and
would be glad to see you. You want to time the tides entering the Sound and
going through Hell Gate in the East River in New York.

If you want more information email us at bobjns at nais.com. You won't be
sorry that you did the Maine cruise.

Bob & Barbara Johns
Wind Call #397
516-261-5759



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