Summer 2025

This may be the one post of this year, and it's still summer!

Launched Magus on June 10.  Put the sails on, filled water tanks, motored from Yarmouth to Freeport the next day.  Did other little organization and clean-up projects, mostly. I went sailing one day in early July.

The last weekend of July, a crew of friends were in Portland and on Peaks Island.  On Sunday, July 27, a group of some of my oldest friends including Jenny motored out to Chebeague Island Inn, met another boat load of people, and we all had a great brunch.  I didn't take photos of that event, but some others did. The trip back to Freeport was in the rain.  My friend Mac was last mentioned in this blog when we saw him on his boat at Deltaville in Fall  2016.  

Made plans for a short cruise with Sophi and her fam, but it turned out that Jenny could not get away from her dog business obligations.  Anyway, on Monday, July 8, a lot of us left Freeport harbor, actually sailing for part of the short sail to the Goslings. We may have a sailed a little the next day, but we mostly motored to Seguin. That afternoon at 5 pm, Sophi had booked a water taxi to take her back to Bath so she could work a few days since she was taking the next week for a vacation on Peaks Island and had work to do.  

The water was cold at Seguin.

I had wanted to stay at Newagen Resort on Southport Island, but they said Magus was too long for their moorings.  So, we motored to Sebasco Resort on the New Meadows River.  On shore, it was hot, but we canoed (me) and paddle-boarded (everyone else), played shuffleboard and were disappointed that the pool was closed.  Travis took us all out for desert at the restaurant.

It almost rained the next day as we motored to Jewel Island, but we were able to hike to the towers and explore the Island a little bit.  The next day was a short trip to Peaks Island where we took a mooring belonging to my friend Ted Schmidt.  Nice location near Greenwood Gardens, and I found a good spot for the dinghy on the Army pier; (after some drama using the new Lobster Company pier the first night.)   

Echo and her family were staying in a cottage on the Island starting that Saturday, and Sophi and her family stayed there too.  Jenny and I went out several times.  We never quite scheduled a family sail, but we could have.  It was a busy week. 

I enjoyed sailing Magus back to Freeport the following Saturday, August 9; almost all sailing in the nice breeze; "wind south, over my shoulder, think I'll set a course and go...."

There will certainly be a few trips out to Magus for projects; so far, a little teak coating, work on the tachometer cable, and then a new electric hour-meter.  And also installed a new main halyard winch that I bought many years ago, and finally got it done. Apparently, it was not that important. 

May even get some more sailing in before the summer is over; time will tell.