August 17-18 I joined the crew to deliver Ralph and Hannah Wolf's Whitbee 42 to Belfast, Maine. I went aboard in Portland. Landmarks of note were Seguin Island, Georges Harbor/Allen Island, Whitehead Light/Muscle Ridge Channel, Southern Island/Tenants Harbor. and the Owls Head light just before Rockland harbor.
Georges Harbor is where Englishmen first landed in Maine, commemorated on the tercentennial in 1905 by a granite cross and a big ceremony which treated the voyage of George Weymouth's Archangel as the state's founding event. Today it is a beautifully composed scene - Betsy and Andrew Wyeth's house on Benner Island and the lobstermen's wharf, old sail loft, houses and cottages of the Allen Island Sea Station - served by the namesake of Weymouth's Archangel.
I slept on a cockpit bench and awoke to first light and the low rumble of a lobsterman headed south past the seal ledges between Allen and Burnt islands.
Harvey and Ralph were amiable crewmates. I'm sure our work will be appreciated by Hannah and the kids - after whom CaLeRu is named.
We got to know Christopher Cart's work when one of his paintings of dancers was for sale at the awesom Harbor Square Gallery in Rockland, Maine. Often of dancers, his paintings are powerful portraits. We let our favorite slip past to our regret. So when automobile repairs drove us to Augusta we stopped at the Kennebec Capital Justice Center where the entrance to an auditorium is framed by impressive murals of scenes from Maine's history.
My favorite is the ice harvesters - because I know from my Peace Corps years that some of that Penobscot River ice made it to the `ais haus' on the Bombay waterfront - now a bus terminal of the same name.
