Day 33 Wednesday September 5 to North Haven (Fox Island Thoroughfare)
This morning I had good shore time while Melissa went to the library to take care of some work email, and we stopped at the store. On the dock as we were going back to the boat we saw a woman lobsterwoman going out to her boat. Not until we were pulling out of the harbor and so was she on “Mattie Belle”, that my people realized it was Linda Greenlaw, of “The Perfect Storm” fame. She was the female swordfish boat captain on one of the other boats talking to George Clooney’s character on the radio. She has written her own book about swordfishing, “The Hungry Ocean” which we have aboard, so it would have been cool to get her autograph. She has also written a book about lobstering, and a cookbook, and a new novel. She grew up and now lives on Isle Au Haut. Anyways, she seems like a neat lady, I bet she likes dogs.Â
Wind was on the nose so we motored to North Haven. Found a mooring, but couldn’t hail J.O. Brown’s Boatyard on the radio so called them on the cell. Not particularly friendly. We went ashore and the town apparently shut down at labor day - the restaurant there is only open July and August, and nothing else was open and not many people were around. The market had closed for good. Even the dock at the boatyard had a sign “No visitors.” One of the reasons why we stopped here instead of Winter Harbor was the cruising guide said it was a neat little town. It sure looks quaint from the water. But we won’t bother stopping here again, at least not “off season”.
At least we did see a schooner sail through the thoroghfare:
And there was a cool sunset:
