I am so just not a techie person and have tried for three days to send this blog. One more time and if it doesn't go through, I'll find another blog site! We are home as of midnight last evening................happy to be here and have a bed that is the size of our cabin on our sailing ship, with bunk over.
It's interesting how fast one becomes new best friends with 30 people that you knew nothing of, one week ago. The first day I went up on deck dressed to go to the shower and the last day went up in my robe! We had two showers and they were both topside.
The food was amazing and did I mention we had home made bread every day...yum!
We did win the schooner race...............remember we were the only three masted ship in our class and winning was a given!............got a trophy etc.! The race ended in Camden Maine with lots of festivities and a steel drum band.
One slight mishap, no injuries, when one ship thought he could sail between two others in the final leg and hit both of them.......exciting times. Every one finished and of course blamed the other ship.
Weather was good, either hot or cold. We were prepared. Much of it depended on which side of the sail you were on!
Working was not mandatory........you could if you wanted. John raised sails a few times as well as furled sails at the end of the day.
And now to pictures..................of the ghost ship I mentioned. These pictures were worth missing the fireworks the night before. One or two of race day and one or two of lighthouses.
I think all of the light houses are in Maine. The state of Maine claims 3,500 miles of shore line and NOAA claims they only have 228.
Thanks for checking in on us and we'll hope to continue doing this in September when we are on the road once more.