Day 69, August 25 -- Christmas Cove to Boothbay Harbor -- 7 NM

Such a short passage, south out of the first harbor and then north into the next, that we motored all the way and never put up a sail. On the way south there was no wind and on the way north it was in our face. At the tip of the "V" we passed inshore of this unusual lighthouse.

Unlike Christmas Cove, which was a new harbor for us, we have been in Boothbay in 2002, in the harbor for one night, and in 2013 where we stayed at the Yacht Club for two nights and visited the then new Botanical Gardens. Christmas Cove is residential,; Boothbay harbor is commercial.  We learned in 2013 that the easy way to get from the YC to town is by dink. This time, Tug Boat Inn and Marina gave us a better price and made the long dinghy ride unnecessary. We took the free trolley bus to Hannafords, the supermarket chain of this area, to buy provisions before a superb lunch out at Kaller's Restaurant. Simple dishes, very well done at reasonable prices. If you come here, try a bowl of their lobster corn chowder. They didn't say so but our estimate was that the meat of a whole lobster was in it. Then I got a haircut, we drifted among the galleries, took showers and returned to the boat for the night.