June 26
Pulpit Harbor was a convenient anchorage to kill a day before going to Rockland. I was debating to even include it on the BLOG. As it turned out, it was rather interesting. It was a rainy, misty, foggy day so there wasn’t much to look at or do. It was only an hour or so from Camden so we had most of the day to kill. To pass time I even listened to the USCG weather report on the radio. “Monday, 50% chance of showers, patchy fog, a high of 70°, low in the high fifties. Tuesday, 50% chance of showers, patchy fog, a high of 70°, low in the high fifties. Wednesday, 50% chance of showers, patchy fog, a high of 70°, low in the high fifties…” This went on for the full report for the next week. Sandy and I thought it was quite funny and would occasionally ask each other what the weather is going to be like and break out laughing. You have to do something to entertain yourselves while sitting on a boat in the fog and rain. In the late afternoon we noticed some large sailing ships in the main channel and soon one was approaching the inlet to Pulpit Harbor. He came right in an anchored on the far side. Pretty quickly two more came in and anchored. The last two didn’t have an engine so the first of those had a tender or skiff pushing him in. The last ship came in under full sail, shot across our bow then did a quick U-turn to come back. This was intended to bleed off speed and find a spot to anchor assume. As they turned up and away from us then dropped the forward sails to come to a stop and dropped the anchor. I should have recorded it because it was very impressive. What was not impressive was them eating dinner under an awning outside in the rain while we were snug in the pilothouse watching them. Two of the three were from the original Windjammer schooners (Mercantile and Grace-Bailey). You just never know how a day will turn out.
