As John Lennon said, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” We woke up on the mooring at Monhegan Island to find that Nano’s house batteries were nearly flat after only on night on the hook. I decided that we might just need to replace the two six year old group 31 AGM units. That meant a change in plans and we diverted to Rockland instead of going to another mooring on Matinicus Island. Rockland is a big boating center and we thought mistakenly as it turned out that we could easily find replacements. Without boring you with details, I’ll just say that Nano’s batteries are unusual in having ‘flag terminals’ instead of ten more normal SAE terminals similar to auto batteries. It took some research and shoe leather to determine this and lo and behold the Maine Lobster Festival was nigh upon us. What could we do, but lay over?
The festival turned out to be like a medium sized country fair with an emphasis on, you guessed it, lobster. Just in case you haven’t been to a county fair recently, here are a couple of shots starting with the block long line for the lobster and shore dinner tent. Although Kevin had enjoyed lobster before, he hadn’t had any on the coast of Maine. As an informal ambassador for my homeland, I cajoled him into the whole lobster tent away from the lobster roll tent. I had my first shore dinner in decades and we declared (in Kevin’s wife Sally’s words) ‘Check Done’!
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