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Day 40 Mosquitos & Lobsters

I didn’t sleep much at all, as one mosquito after another from Pell island found her way into the boat’s cabin and insisted on buzzing around my head. In the morning during a short break in the fog Bryan and I went for a swim in the cold Maine water. That woke me up! Then […]

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Day 39 Leo’s Nudeln

Doug Day’s son Jackson had given us some mushrooms he had grown and we had just about all the ingredients onboard to make Leo’s Sherry Mushroom Nudeln (German for noodles) from our Acoustic Chef book. I rolled out the homemade noodles on a cutting board in the cockpit until the mosquitoes forced us into the […]

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Day 38 Pell Island Fog

We awake to fog so thick that we couldn’t see from the boat to the water. Eventually the fog cleared enough to see the island, and a bit of sky cleared enough for some warmth to come through. I donned my swimsuit and we rowed to the island to get a brief swim near the […]

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Day 37 Secret Basil Transplant

We swung south to Mackerel cove, where we grabbed a mooring in front of Mike Wilson’s house. He had hosted a picking party both this year and last. Unfortunately Mike and his wife weren’t home, but Doug Day appeared in a motorboat at the floating dock where we had tied our dinghy, towing his son […]

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Day 36: A Magical Path

We left south Somes in the morning.  Bryan spotted a group of three small uninhabited islands that weren’t mentioned in the Maine cruising book, so curiosity prompted us to anchor there and row ashore. The shore was lined by egg-size multicolored stones perfectly polished by years of ocean currents. We made our was across the […]

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Day 35 Neighbors Rescue Dinghy & M at the Helm

We set sail through Somes Sound to make gradual progress westward.  The wind was on the nose, but it was a beautiful sunny day so rather than motor the entire way Bryan decided to tack back and forth, making slow progress but enjoying being one of the few boats with sails gracefully unfurled. I watched […]

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Day 34 Direction: Somes

We motored out of Burnt Coat Harbor, not quite sure what direction to head. Bryan wanted to get as far east as Roque, but realized it might be a race to get back home in time for September gigs. The wind was light and variable, so not conducive to shoot further east, clinching the decision […]

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Concert at Old Town School Chicago

Join me on Sat, Sept. 25th for a concert with Bryan’s incredible visual backdrops at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago at 5pm CDT. Tell your Chicago area friends!  Click on the link for more details and to register for tickets. I hope to see you there!  https://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2021/09-25-2021-muriel-anderson/