Så tager vi videre nordpå mod Maine, US.

Vi har nu fået dybtemåleren sat på plads og tager videre i dag, søndag. Desværre viste det sig at der er errotion p.g.a saltvand i en del af generatorens startermotor, så den virker ikke. David skal sende efter en reservedel som så skal sendes til et nyt sted nordpå. Davids forhandler er jo i UK og generatoren er derfra, og alt på båden er 240 volt, og ikke som her 120 volt, så vi kan ikke bruge amerikanske dele. Sådan er det at være langturs sejler. Man bruger lang tid på at få båden sejlklar, så sejler man lidt og finder problemer som skal ordnes og så venter man på at få at få reservedele og på at få arbejdet gjort.
Vejret er dejligt med sol, varme og vind. Det er bedre her end hjemme i regnen og kulde og her er ingen myg eller "knots"/midges.
Vi har det dejligt. Det er billigt at leve og købe ting. En doller er 50 pence. Jeg har brugt den sidste uges tid på at lave smykker, været på et lille kursus i hvordan man gør, så pas på! for nu får I alle sammen smykker i fødselsdagsgave/julegave.
Nu skal vi til at sejle. David har ordnet et andet lille problem med en utæthed i dækket, som gjorde navigationsbordet vådt.

I Beverly Port Marina,

We have been up on 'the hard' in Beverly Port Marine for a day and a night. Our parcels arrived and the parts had to be fitted, that being the transducer to the depth sounder and the inverter for the generator. David has been dripping with sweat to get it all sorted. The depth sounder is now working and he is really chuffed with that. However, the bad news is that the generator is in a poor state. It has had a big operation today and is needing a new kidney to survive. The new liver (Inverter) is installed and working fine.
Little boys little toys , big boys big toys!
The temperature is around 30 degrees C/80 degrees F. David is working really hard. One minute the boat is a floating home and the next n it is turned into a workshop. David is dripping with sweat, but he pushes on and on.
The photo of me is from the foredeck where I am sitting in the dinghy knitting for my new granddaughter. the photo with the bemini shows our washing line!

Beverly, MA.

From Plymouth we visited first Hull and now Beverly. In Hull we saw a very interesting museum for the local lifeboat which had saved many lives from shipwrecks of some of the big sailing ships on their approach to Boston in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (see photo form previous Blog).
Two parcels with spare parts for the boat have been sent to Beverly. The inverter for the generator arrived today and hopefully the parts for the depth-sounder arrive tomorrow. The boat will have to be lifted up on the hard to be fitted with the new units. This will happen promptly after arrival. Then we are off north to Maine and Canada for the last part of our cruise. We are having a great time and the weather is good. We are meeting so many interesting people. An example was a colourful 'live-aboard' in Hull. He was a household-remover, who was a happy-go-lucky fellow. He literally sailed close to the wind. He the had a lobster pot tied up to the pontoon, and he cooked his dinner on a 'slow cooker' plugged in to the phone charger in the yacht club. He invited us to join him for dinner, well-knowing that we were leaving that morning.
We crossed the Boston Bay and took a berth in the Beverly Port Marina for the night, to the cost of $100per night, which is normal price around here As we were waiting for our parcels we went out on a mooring the next day.
The tide here in Beverly is around 10 feet,which you can see on the photo. The white bird in the night is an egret, which was fishing at the pontoon.
Sunday we cycled to Salem nearby and saw the Witch museum, which was very popular and crowded. In the town-common a n international festival took place. Some belly-dancers showed a lot of belly!

Hull. MA (near Boston)

Hull, and US Lifeguard Museum in Allerton, MA.
Vi er på anker uden for en lille by, Hull, i nærheden af Boston. Vi har et forfærdeligt vejr med regn, torden og storm i nat og i dag, men vi er i shorts og t shirts, for det er stadig meget varmt. Vi har ikke været i land i dag. I går åbnerde vi for vand beholderen så alt regnen som faldt på dækket kom ind i bådens forsyning af vand. David har i de sidste par dage haft telefon forbindelse med forhandlerne af vort ekkolod, som endnu ikke er ankommet til det bådværft vi har bestilt det at skulle på land hos. Det er noget værre svineri, men sådan er det hele tiden. Vi fik en mail i dag som sagde at den del af generatoren ,som også skal fornyes p.g.a. errosion og derfo ikke virker, er afsendt fra UK og skulle ankomme på fredag.
Igår var vi pået lille museum forden lokale rednings båd. Det var meget spændende at se de store tre til firemastede skonnerter som var gået på grund her under vinterstormene i sin tid.
Jeg har heldigvis wifi forbindelse, og snakker dagligt med min Kirsten, og hun og lille Anna har det godt, men der går ikke lang tid mellem at hun ammer. Nu er hun heldigvis ved at få hjælp fra sundhedsplejersken. Hun er altid ved godt mod når vi snakker sammen. Jeg er selvfølgelig ked af at jeg ikke kan være der. Jeg strikker babytøj og et tæppe til barnevognen osv.

From Provincetown to Plymouth, MA

We are having a wonderful time here on the very most east coast of the United States.
We visited Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, which is a long sandy peninsula curling itself out into the Atlantic. Here we ate lobster in a small cafe by the harbour.The sunset photo shows the tower which is a memorial built in granite in memory of the Pilgrim -Fathers, who arrived on the good ship The Mayflower, in 1620.
They did not like it, so off they went and settled in Plymouth across the bay. David is reading about the Mayflower just now, so we are in their 'footsteps', and went whale- watching on the way across the bay. The one on the photo is a Right Whale, an endangered species, which has its habitat in the Boston Bay, which we crossed. She' blew out' right in front of the boat less than 20 yards away. Fantastic!!

Visit from kusine Lynn, Nick henden mand , og Meredina , hendes datter

I dag havde vi besøg af Howards datter Lynn , hendes mand Nick og hendes datter , Meredina. De er noget så søde. Lynn ligner Kusine Jytte fuldstændig. Hun fortalte at Howard var meget imponeret over os og at vi havde sejlet hertil. hendes mand, Nick, fortalte nogle utrolige historier om Howard. Nick, som arbejder med noget ligesom Pernille, hjalp somme tider Howard på slæbebåden , og han var der dengang Howard fik en trosse i ansigtet og var nær slået ihjeld. En anden gang da de var ude i noget forfærdeligt uvejr og Howard sad oppe i masten på en stol han havde bundet fast, for at se bedre,lå besætningen, som var hans søn og Nick på gulvet og var møj søsyge, og så pludselig så de Hawards hovded, på hovedet gennem vinduet til styrhuest og han bad om en kop kaffe! Han var en gæv fyr!
Det var sjovt at snakke med dem.
I morgen sejler vi gennem Cape Cod Kanal og tager sikkert ud til den by, Procince Town som var det første sted skibet , The Mayflower, kom til med immigtrater fra England i 1604.
Håber I har det godt.

back in Cape Cod

Back in Cape Cod.

We are now back in Quissett Harbour in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, after an overnight flight from Vancouver. The US customs officer, whom we saw in Ottawa at four o‘clock in the morning, when we changed plane, was a little suspect of David’s new purchase of a handheld VHF radio with WX- weather-forecast in the suitcase. It was ok-ed after some explanation. I am sure he thought he had discovered a bomb! In Boston we caught the bus to Cape Cod and arrived back at the boat in baking heat just before midday. A dip in the sea got rid of the sweat and stickiness, and life was worth living again.
The next day we biked to Falmouth and found ourselves in the middle of a large craft-fare. The tea cosies I tried to sell last year at the farmers market in Crieff would have gone like hotcakes.
While waiting on a new tool which David bought on the internet with promise of ’next day delivery’ we did some maintenance. David found that the generator and inverter were badly corroded. The dealer in Britain was contacted and a new part ordered. And so it goes on!
Our patience is tested all the time! Still, here we are on an anchorage in a beautiful quiet bay in Cape Cod, surrounded by green trees and a blue sky above. The sun is shining and we had a lovely day and an amazing sunset! And, on top of that I went swimming at midnight. Phosphorescent plankton were sparkling like jewels in the dark. Magic!