CompuServe Messages

Laurie – Exciting? Try sailing/motoring through some of our pea soup fogs off the coast of Maine straining, willing, begging to hear the gong off the headland before you are up on it! Too many years ago when I first moved to Maine I treated myself to a two week sail on a three masted scooner. It was one of the smaller ones and not fancy like they became. We sailed, rail in the water, for a week and then explored islands in the fog for the second week. I can still close my eyes and see it all over again. Sleep on the deck at night moored off of Matinicus Island and see every star like they are a foot over your head. For many years I had a friend who had a "stink pot" that we used to explore all up and down the coast into the little harbors and isolated islands. Not the same as sailing but still got you out on the water. Now I'm married to a former Coast Guardsman who says anything under 110 feet isn't safe <G> He stopped in NZ on the way to Vietnam and was there for over a month since the CG boat needed repair. He once promised that we would go every where he went in the service so I could see the places. NZ and OZ are top of the list for me even ahead of Hawaii. We often see the big sailing yachts cruising the coast in the summer. Shame the season doesn't last longer. Anne