Coastal Cruising: Bay Breeze & Aquavit

St. Croix River, Calais, Maine      Back to Maine - Safe Harbor Marina, Rockland AQUAVIT is often blocked in by visiting mega yachts.  Foreign flagged to evade US taxes? Good to see the cats. Lady Marmalade happy to see us .   We took a break from our Maine adventure to return to Tallahassee; we missed the heat and humidity – HA! After a week or so at home, we left Tropical Storm Fred in our wake to head north back to Maine. We had no damage from the storm even though its landfall was 150 miles to the west of us. It was a minimal tropical storm, unlike Hurricane Michael that came ashore in the same area in 2018 and did so much damage to Mexico Beach.   We hurried north to Rockland because another tropical storm was headed to the northeast U.S. Henri was projected to glance off of the Maine coast as a tropical depression. Instead, Tropical Storm Henri came ashore on the Connecticut coast and hung around raining on Massachusetts for a few days. We had tied up...

Our Maine Plan:  seasonal slip, winter storage, summer cruising, floating condo. Birch Point Beach State Park, Owls Head, Maine With COVID informing our plans, it seems that we have missed a year. To catch up from our last blog post, we took only a couple short trips on Aquavit and Bay Breeze . One with our Sarasota friends, socially distanced, to Dog Island and Apalachicola. Pat and Judy were on Aquavit and we were aboard Bay Breeze . And we took trips on both boats across the Gulf down to Sailors Wharf in St. Petersburg for a little service.  Bay Breeze and Aquavit in Apalachicola with Pat and Judy While sailing Bay Breeze down to St. Pete, a weather front chased us in to Steinhatchee it's good to see dawn's first light after sailing all night form Steinhacthee to St. Pete. Aquavit hauled and ready to load by May 9. Bay Breeze is now in storage at St Petersburg for hurricane season and we had Aquavit trucked to Maine. Unfortunately the transport was more stress...