Jeff,

Happy to hear that your trip was a success.  Your choice of destinations was quite different from mine, but different strokes…

So the same Harbormaster who told you there was absolutely no overnight parking at Snow Park helped you put your boat on the trailer?  I’m still a bit puzzled by this whole parking thing.  But I assume, like me, your parking experience was just fine.

I’ll probably be going back for another one week cruise in September.

—Peter

> On Aug 26, 2020, at 3:24 PM, JeffSmith <jeffsmithphoto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Radiant returned from Maine yesterday after 2 weeks on the road and sea.
> After stopping at the local trailer place to replace a tail light (but they
> both worked yesterday!) We drove for about 9 hours to Rockland and stayed in
> the Harbor View Hotel for a couple of nights to load and prep the boat. 
> Hotels and restaurants make Emily happy and "Happy wife, etc." Thanks to
> research by Peter Nyberg we had a good launch at the Snow Park Ramp - the
> best in my limited experience - with a dock all along side.
> After a short motor (light wind on the nose) we took a mooring from Lyman
> Morse in Camden foe a couple of days to explore the town. A night in the
> Hartstone Inn where the beds were way too soft. And then on to the Fox
> Island Thoroughfare, where we picked up an open mooring in Perry Creek,
> where we stayed for three nights.
> Then on to Stonington for a couple of nights on the dock at billings marine
> and eventually back "home" to Rockland.
> The weather was spectacular! Delightful temps in the day and cool evenings
> as opposed to the high temps and humidity back in NJ. Very few bugs and the
> few mosquitoes were kept at bay by a THERMACELL device that worked off a
> camping gas can. Neither of us had a bite.
> The personnel at the marinas were outstanding!!! Friendly and helpful beyond
> belief. Shout Outs to Charles and Celia (who was very interested in the R22)
> at  Lyman Morse, Don at Billings and Mark the Harbormaster at Rockland, who
> helped us get the boat on the trailer.
> So a few lessons learned on our first cruise:
> 
> 1. Bring less stuff! The boat is small (duh) and the constant shifting of
> bags to sleep or open the cabin is 
>   a pain. We used half of what we brought. I also brought too many tools,
> which took up floor space.
> 2 The Sea Eagle 370 is about as small a dinghy that can be stowed under the
> seats and is fun - but wet.  
>   It tracks very well, so there is not much reason to need to stow it at
> all.  Next time we will tow our 
>   small Achilles inflatable.  
> 3. The Igloo Cooler next to the icebox worked well, needing a couple of bags
> of ice every 2 days - and 
>    kept the food, seltzers and beer cold.
> 4.  The Magma grill was good for the usual and even heated up locally bought
> pizza.
> 
> Pix are here:
>> https://www.jeffsmithphoto.net/Rhodes-22-Radiant-2020-Penobscot-Bay-Sailing-Vacation/ 
> 
> 
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> Jeff Smith
> 2009 R22 #101 RADIANT
> Atlantic Highlands Municpal Harbor
> Atlantic Highlands, NJ
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