Our final weekend on the boat. Like I said, it is a short summer this year. Fortunately Heidi agreed to share her birthday weekend with us and the family joined us for a celebration weekend. We have known Mike and Heidi for a long, long time, and have had many great times with them on the first Anjumal. We were glad they were able to spend a weekend with us to initiate the new Anjumal.

We had planned to make the trip to Snow Island, but the time was short and the forecast was for 6' seas. No fun. It was suggested that just being at the mooring was enough fun, but, I wanted to go somewhere. I figured we could stay mostly inside and still get to Long Cove. We had a good time there several weeks ago, and could give it another go.

As we entered Harpswell Sound form Potts Harbor, we were exposed to the rollers from the south. Based on the rolling there until we could get a bit more protected, we were glad we had forgone the Snow Island cruise.

Once in Long Cove, I had arranged for a diver to check out the bottom, in preparation for the trip to Florida. We picked him up in the dinghy and let him do his thing. I new I had some lobster pot rode on the shaft and he confirmed there was a lot of it and removed it. The rest of the bottom, he reported was clean as new. If you remember the entry from three weeks ago, we had wondered about the depth. The diver confirmed he was standing on the bottom to work on the prop.

We normally celebrate anchoring after a day's cruise with a bottle of champagne. We had stocked up in February for this, before selling the first Anjumal. Fortunately we had the right crew aboard to deal with the stockpile and the birthday celebration to use for the excuse. We had a great party!