the 2008 International Wayfarer Rally * Hermit Island, Maine
Thursday 14 August - 6
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Chart copied with the kind permission of Curtis Rindlaub, author of the Maine Coast Guide for Small Boats.

Yup! The shipwreck shown on the chart is there all right!!
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To the poor guys hard at work in this working marina, we must have looked like a regatta that had lost its way??
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Or perhaps the marine version of locusts???
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The owner, though, was very polite and welcoming - provided we didn't stay overly long
and get in the way of the working boats expected in half an hour.
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That flag fancier, Ton, has raised the NedWA pennant on SHADES.
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Tom and Diane arrive to complete the picture.
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They even let us use their bathroom which was ...
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... up the ramp. Kind people!
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Their main concern seemed to be, understandably, that we not scratch their paying beauties like the one on the left here.
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Ralph, the gang banger
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Lunch time!! eat up, guys, we only have half an hour!!
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Some of us got to use the employees' picnic table! It had become quite hot and the shade was welcome!!
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View from the picnic table
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