The VHF man came along at 9:30 and diagnosed us as having a
bad antenna cable. So we’ll drop the
mast when we lay up this winter and replace it.
We set off for Matinicus Island, 43 51.78N, 068 52.92W, and had a pleasant
sail in 7-12 knots winds, dodging lobster pots.
As we approached Matinicus, the wind piped up to 20+ knots and we found
ourselves heading directly into the sun, which made locating lobster floats
very difficult. So we were quite glad to
enter the harbor whereupon we found 6 or so visitors moorings with pickup
floats attached.
We picked one up and found a message in a bottle taped to
the float. The message explained that
the fee for a mooring was $25, it was an honor system and that we should leave
the fee in the bottle. It also gave a
lot of information about the island, including the phone number of the lady who
would bake bread and pies etc. if we called her. Nice!
Just after we picked up the mooring, a lobster boat went
past, asked us if we had found the information and if we wanted some
crabs. Of course we said yes and yes and
dashed below to find some cash to pay for the crabs. They returned with a cardboard box full of
crab legs and wouldn’t take any money.
(But they took the few bottled of beer we offered). They told us how to cook them and
departed.
We had so many crabs they wouldn’t fit in our largest pot,
so we cooked the first batch but couldn’t finish them all. Then
we cooked the 2nd batch, added the leftovers from the 1st batch and
extracted the meat. It’s a very messy
and time consuming process and by the time we’d finished, and cleaned up the
dining table it was 10:30pm. Still we
had a great meal and will have crab sandwiched for lunch for the forseeable
future (on home made bread from the baking lady we hope).
Ships Log: 5647, Todays Log: 22.7, Seasons Total: 1199.1
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