the 2008 International Wayfarer Rally * Hermit Island, Maine
Tuesday 12 August - 1
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Tuesday morning: It has poured much of the night, but my tent made it through the ordeal relatively bone dry.
As I backed out of my "driveway", I got this view of the Hirsch headquarters.
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Before heading off to Popham for breakfast, I quickly had a look - from this distance - at our boats through ...
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... the downpour. At breakfast, some of the locals were talking about Popham neighbours whose entire driveways
had been washed down the hill during the night. I think I drove over some of the remains on my way into town.
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View from the camp store's front porch: During the night, two more Wayfarers arrived from Ottawa, Ontario to a wet welcome:
Andy Douma's Port Tack Too (red and white) and Lori Beehler's Green Side Up.
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Mid-morning: The worst of the rain had stopped by about noon, and Conny went out and got a picture or two.
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Looking north along The Branch towards our moored boats from the "neck" that connects Hermit Island to Small Point.
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That neck being the location of our all-important camp store and ...
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... the Kelp Shed where campers can get out the rain and amuse themselves and/or eat at the snack bars.
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Racing - oops, I mean organized sailing having been cancelled for the day, Uncle Al soon got himself a nice window booth
where he was all set to read about the Olympics or a Hamish Macbeth mystery, but first he inaugurated his gift from Anne Kell ...
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... by updating his Rally log (which is coming in very handy right now).
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Being incapacitated, Andy Douma, has showed up just to loan his boat to anyone who might need it.
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For one and all, the Kelp Shed was a nice way to escape the rain.
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When I stepped out for a fresh-air break, even the rain-soaked Head Beach had its charms, charms that were about to ...
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... be sampled by these three intrepid young ladies.
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The view towards Casco Bay and the open Atlantic.
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On this gray day, the girls add a ...
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... pretty splash of colour.
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