Jonesport to ... Jonesport

Sunday July 2nd

We had a great sleep on the mooring buoy. Woke up to fog. Not any where for a while.

We launched the dingy and rowed to shore. I went for a run while Sterling and Noah walked around the small town. About 750 people live here. It is a lobster fishing community.

Around 2 pm the fog lifted and we decided to head out through Mooseabec reach.   We got in the reach and it was constant lobster pot bouts. What a nightmare. They are everywhere. We got caught up in a bad place close to a navigational aid and there were so many pots we couldn't get out of it. We caught something and our engine was not performing well at 1000 rpms. We had to make our way back through the nightmare reach and back to port.

This was so stressful  

Once we got into the Harbour we did some manoeuvres and everything was working fine. We had however lost our nerve and had to regroup so we tied up to the wharf.

The fog rolled bag in and we decided to wait until the next morning to leave. Better weather is coming.

Sterling did a nice BBQ chicken for us for dinner and the sun finally came out. We ate on the back deck. We fueled up that night at 7 pm. We had to wait for high tide to get to the fuel dock. We went for a little walk before bed and got Noah some ice cream at the corner store. People are very friendly in this town.

We are hoping to leave in the morning. They are calling for good weather. We have charted a route that has us going around an island instead of through the crazy moosabec reach full of lobster pots. The new route adds over an hour to our time but we don't care.