Day 65, August 21 -- Rockport to Rockland -- 6 NM

Rockland, Rockport and Stonington (which we visited on our 2013 Maine cruise. Is Maine just a big set for The Flintstones?  Actually, a lot of the granite from which New York City's iconic pre steel and glass buildings are built was quarried in Maine and shipped to New York by sea. The purpose of this return visit to Rockland was to finally get a new and improved, stronger zipper sewed into the top of the stack pack which covers the mainsail when not in use.
In very light adverse wind and adverse tide we motored the six miles and tied up to the town dock (free dockage for up to two hours). We were here at 8:30 and Doug Pope carted off our sail, in its bag, an hour later. We took a town mooring for $30/night, here on the west side of the harbor, rather than a free one, or anchoring over by Ned, in the NE corner. We did so because in the afternoon, after charting and other boatwork we dinked ashore to visit the Farnsworth Museum. I spent only three hours there, which was not nearly enough. In 2013 I saw the permanent collection and did not have time to get back to it.The placarding shows how intently the collection is focused on artists who were born or worked in Maine. I saw a large exhibition of paintings by or of women and one on the tapestries and oils of  Marguerite Zorach. But the greatest emphasis was on the Wyeths.

When we got back to the dinghy dock, the tide was out and our dink, especially the prop, was stuck in the sand and shells. So my sneakers got a salt water bath; we were fine.
Lene got our galley stove's broiler working again for the first time in several years. And our sail is done and will be delivered tomorrow morning. Another very quiet night on the mooring.