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	September 10, 2000 Update #8
		After two car side trips, (see photos of a beautiful yellow dory handmade in Lunenburg, NS and other interesting photos of wooden sailboat, a typical harbor view of commercial fishing boats (very colorful), and a longline fishing boat with its colorful gear), we left Nova Scotia August 27 as planned with an early morning departure so as to make it thru the channel BEFORE the Scotia Prince (187 feet) made its entry.  The morning was lovely; no fooooggg; and then halfway thru the channel, yes, you guessed it, the fog bank rolled in.  Once again, Marie at the helm, Terry below decks watching radar, computer, etc. ensuring that I was in the channel (could not see a darn buoy) and that there were no major blips on the radar (hence ships!).  We finally made it out the channel and rounded the final channel buoy on our way back to the US and guess what!!! the Scotia Prince was making its way toward the same buoy.  We called them on VHF to let them know our position and they acknowledged that they had us on their radar.  We passed them port to starboard and were on our way.  We had a great overnight crossing (we shared the watches, 3 hours on and then 3 off) and, of course, expected to pass the Scotia Prince at least two more times; they passed us to starboard on their way back to Portland and then on the 1:00 am watch was on the horizon again heading in our direction.  I called the skipper and he once again acknowledged us on their radar as gave us wide berth.  In fact, I spoke with the skipper, Scott, a bit to tell him of our plans to travel the world; he shared some of his.  We arrived in Portland, ME in the morning and found a lovely anchorage off of Peakes Island that had ferry service to Portland. We took the ferry, got our mail, had a nice lunch and spent two nights.  We left Peakes Island and motored/sailed to Kittery, ME a small harbor town outside of Portsmouth, NH where we realized that we had a problem with the heat exchanger on the genset.  We contacted a local yacht yard who took the exchanger to a radiator shop for a rebuild.  Unfortunately, the rebuild failed which forced us to stay in Kittery over Labor Day weekend due to everything being closed.  We finally contacted the yacht yard Tuesday after Labor Day who were most concerned about the exchanger failure.  We motored to their dock which amounted to another three days hold over in Kittery.  We were able to locate a new heat exchanger that was installed and we were on our way. On 9/8/00, we left Kittery, MA, early in the morning and made our way to Plymouth, MA for the night.  We left (9/9/00) the next morning for the Cape Cod Canal.  Terry is really on top of currents, tides, etc.  He timed our entry into the Canal and the perfect time to take advantage of a favorable current.  We came thru the Canal around 11:00 am and motored into Onset, a lovely harbor town most frequented by transient sailors making their way either East or West through the Canal.  We found a great "supermarket" stocked up on provisions and left the following morning (9/10/00).  Next is our first transit thru the somewhat famous Woods Hole (another required timing so as to go thru at a favorable current -they get up to 7 knots) and a most popular, crowded channel.  We made Marthas Vineyard at about 1:00 pm and settled in for the next couple of days on anchor off the lighthouse, famous in the graphic called "Rounding the Lighthouse".  We are happy to be back here in Marthas Vineyard with the sun shining; we were here a few years ago and had nothing but rain or fog.  As a sidenote, we purchased a hammock on our way Eastbound in Provincetown but never had the desire to set it up on the foredeck (due to somewhat constant fog, moisture, etc.).  When we settled onto the anchor at Marthas Vineyard, Terry and I had a hoot getting this thing setup on the bow so that neither one of us would bottom out or fall off.  Finally, we got it to work and what a dream. After our stay here, we will head back to Block Island and then down Long Island Sound with stops at Shelter Island, Thimble Islands, to name a few.  We are somewhat on schedule even with the delay due to the heat exchanger.  If Mother Weather cooperates, we plan to be back at Raritan Yacht Club late September. We look forward to checking our web page to read guestbook checkin messages; we are thrilled to see that we have over 750 visitors to date checking our page.  By the way, we now have our onboard boat email system working so that we do not have to access the internet to read email; you can send us an email at:  KC2GPH@winlink.org.  In fact, our zeldahr49@yahoo.com email address will now forward email to the winlink.org address. Terry and I are both licensed amateur Generals; this enables us to dial into frequencies that connect us to onshore ham operators who have the equipment to receive and send our email.  Keep in touch (please no graphics!!!).  Unfortunately, we cannot access/surf the internet via ham radio; not yet anyway; a capability in the future I am sure. We have been successful in talking with Raoul Rabiner (RYC) on amateur at 4:00pm on 7.230 MHz. Terry's efforts at 8:00 pm on single sideband radio have not been very successful. However, if any of you have your amateur (ham) radio licenses, check in with the Mobile Maritime Net on 14.300 MHz and ask for traffic for either of us (Terry KC2GHA or Marie KC2GPH) at 8:15pm. Once again, RADIO CONTACT INFO: Our call signs are KC2GPH (Marie) and KC2GHA (Terry). We talk on amateur at 1600 hours at 7.230 MHz.  Terry is on SSB at 2000 hours.  451,452,453 from 2000-2005 - 651,652,653 from 2005-2010 - 851,852 from 2010-2015. He also tunes into 14.300 (ham) from about 8:15-8:30 pm for traffic to our boat.  Love to hear from you.
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